Administration and Finance Assistant

Band D

Full time - 39 Weeks per year

Permanent

 

Park Primary School is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and friendly Administration and Finance Assistant to work in our busy school office.

School office experience is desirable, however full training will be provided. Strong literacy, numeracy and ICT skills are essential. The successful candidate must have first-rate communication and organisational skills as well as the ability to deal with diverse tasks and changing priorities.

Duties will include acting as one of the main points of contact for greeting visitors and dealing with queries, communicating with parents via our app, maintaining our school information management system, raising purchase orders and processing invoices, booking supply, school trips and transport.

Please see the accompanying job description and person specification.

The successful candidate must have the ability to handle sensitive and confidential issues, be highly organised, able to work to deadlines and use their initiative.

The working hours are 8.15am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday, with a 35 (33) minute unpaid lunch break each day. The contracted weeks are 39, which is term time plus 5 inset days.

The start date is 24th February 2025 or sooner by mutual agreement.

For further information, please contact our Business Manager, Helen Tickell, on 0151-638-6008 ext 4.

Applications forms and covering letters should be emailed to recruitment@park.wirral.sch.uk

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, as part of our pre-employment due diligence, we will undertake general online searches for all shortlisted candidates. This will include social media websites and video platforms. Online searches will only examine data that is publicly available. Any areas of concern will be discussed during the interview process.