Administration Assistant

**Salary**

Garde 3, Actual salary: £21,171.12. Term time only

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Part Time

**Job type**

Support Staff - Other

**Location**

The Holgate Academy, Hillcrest Drive, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 6PX

**Job category**

Administration

**Date posted**

05/12/2024

**Job reference**

R04917

**Working hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm**

The Holgate Academy have an exciting opportunity for an Administration Assistant to join our Business Support Team. If you are motivated to support students, and share our values for empowering, respecting and caring and want to make a real difference this could be the first step on your career journey within education. The focus of this role will be the administration work around student support, reception and admissions.

We know that our staff team are our greatest resource. Therefore, we invest heavily in them, and we know that this has helped us to develop our stable, supportive and high performing team.

We know that we have a lot to offer someone who wants to feel respected, appreciated and who is excited by the opportunity to develop new skills. If you are looking to be part of an exciting improvement journey, we would be delighted to hear from you.
- Understand the importance of community
- Be a positive role model who can build a good rapport with students and staff
- Have the ability to organise and manage own workload and work across all business support teams
- Deliver good level of accuracy, effective timekeeping and a proactive approach to problem solving
- Work as part of a busy team.

Essential
- GCSE qualification or equivalent and a good standard of literacy and numeracy
- Experience of carrying out a varied range of administrative and business duties
- Working with a variety of IT systems including word processing, spreadsheet, Teams and database operation
- Able to handle information in accordance with GDPR principles, dealing with confidential and sensitive information

Desirable
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in an administrative work setting
- First Aid trained

**Why join The Holgate Academy?**

The Holgate Academy is a based on the outskirts of Nottingham within the distinct community of Hucknall. We have around 1250 students, with 11-18 education being based on the main site, and Post 16 provision shared with our partners. The Academy is part of the Diverse Academies Trust. The Academy prides itself on working as a key partner within the Trust, but also on working with partners beyond the Trust, to ensure that we are constantly striving to research and craft the best quality education experience which works for our students in our context. The Academy is delighted to be on the list of schools to be rebuilt in the coming years, and we are confident that this will enhance the work we are doing within our community.

Every member of staff at The Holgate Academy comes to work, every day, with one goal at the forefront of their minds - to equip students for their future. Nothing can be more crucial, nothing more important, than to contribute to this. If you have the skills, determination and drive to enhance our students’ life chances by equipping them for success, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Holgate Academy, Hillcrest Drive, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 6PX

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**Our employee benefits**

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.

In return you will benefit from:

- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 21.8%
- Operational support holidays of 28, 32, or 35 days + 8 bank holidays (dependant on grade of role, full-time equivalent)
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning
- Employee Assistance Programme
- GP helpline
- Health and wellbeing advice and support
- Eyecare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice schemes - electric car scheme, cycle to work, home and electronics
- Lifestyle savings - discounts and offers on gym memberships, holidays, days out, shopping, restaurants, etc
- Health cash plan (personal or family) - where you pay monthly and can claim money back on private treatments such as dental, optical and therapies (e.g. physiotherapy, osteopathy etc)
- Childcare - breakfast and after school provision
- Take a look at our rewards and benefits online

**Applications**

**Closing date: 2 January 2025**

**Interview date: w/c 6 January 2025**

**Start date: 3 Febrary 2025