Administrator

School Administrator

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Salary: £10,666.24 - £11,539.84 (FTE £25,272 - £27,331)

Hours: 16 hours, 2 days per week - Thursday & Friday

 The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About Aurora Wilden View

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

The main purpose of the role:

We are looking for a friendly and organised Administrator to join our team. As part of the administration team, you will be required to support with HR administration, payroll, business and general admin duties. The work you do impacts on all areas of the organisation, therefore you will be required to work collaboratively, professionally and effectively with all areas of the organisation as appropriate.

Please note; this role is for the full year. During school holiday periods some lone working may be required.

Key Duties:

• Liaising with the Central Recruitment Team to ensure the prompt action of all recruitment and staff onboarding activities.
• Overseeing and supporting the administration of new staff following the onboarding process and throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Support managers to manage sickness absence issues effectively in line with the related policies.
• Be responsible for co-ordinating the attendance of students with the Behaviour/safeguarding/Family Liaison Lead.
• Support Team Leaders with the calculations for Holiday Breaks and annual leave entitlements, and ensure the relevant spreadsheets are up to date.
• Co-ordination of data and reports and completion of all actions for the monthly payroll submissions to the Central Payroll team. Ensuring the correct checks and authorisations have been made and data is submitted on time.
• Liaising with Central Functions as appropriate to answer on site queries relating to PAYE, SSP, SMP and Pensions.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description: Administrator

Successful candidate qualities:

• Good level of literacy and numeracy.
• Demonstrable experience of working in administrative role ideally to include HR and payroll and/or within an educational or care environment.
• Experience assisting with HR and onboarding processes would be advantagous 
• Computer literacy essential, particularly in Microsoft Office.
• Accurate typing and Minute taking.
• Organised and good time management.
• Ability to manage workload effectively and multi-task.
• High level of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication.

What’s on offer? 

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes: 

• Full training and continued support 
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• Perkbox subscription
• Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
• Car lease scheme 
• Bike to work scheme  
• Free parking   
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Apply/Enquiries 

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.