Administration Assistant

**Salary**:
NJC Grade D2 points 4 - 11

**Job type**:
Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
January 2025

12 December 2024

**Job overview**:
**Exciting Opportunity: Administration Assistant - Join Our Team and Make a Difference**

Are you a proactive and organised professional with a passion for supporting children and families? Danecourt School is looking for an **Administration Assistant** to become an essential part of our team, helping to create a welcoming and efficient school environment.

**Why Work with Us?**

Danecourt School is a thriving special school dedicated to nurturing the potential of primary-aged children with a variety of special educational needs, including autism, complex learning difficulties, and social, emotional, and mental health challenges. As part of the **Maritime Multi-Academy Trust**, we work collaboratively to deliver innovative, high-quality education across our schools.

**What You'll Do**:
As our **Administration Assistant**, you’ll be the friendly face and voice of our school, liaising with pupils, parents, staff, and visitors. Your role will involve:

- Handling a wide range of administrative tasks with professionalism and efficiency.
- Communicating clearly and calmly with children and adults, ensuring their needs are met.
- Managing enquiries, scheduling, and supporting the smooth day-to-day running of the school office.

You’ll need to be approachable, highly organised, and confident in making decisions, all while keeping a sense of humour

**What We Offer You**:
At Danecourt, you’ll find a supportive and inclusive working environment where your efforts are genuinely valued. Here’s what makes working with us so rewarding:

- ** Supportive Team Culture**: Be part of a collaborative, caring, and friendly team.
- ** Professional Growth**: Access ongoing training and development opportunities, including cross-trust learning experiences.
- ** Excellent Benefits**: Enjoy national terms and conditions, including the **Local Government Pension Scheme**, wellbeing initiatives, and financial support schemes like **Wagestream**.
- ** A Special Place to Work**: Take pride in contributing to a school that prioritises personalised learning and inclusive practices.

We warmly invite you to visit Danecourt School and meet our exceptional team. To arrange a visit, contact our school office - we’d love to show you what makes our school so special.

**Ready to Apply?**

**Diversity and Safeguarding Commitment**:
**About **Danecourt Community School**:
**Danecourt Community School**
- Hotel Road, Watling Street, Gillingham- Kent- ME8 6AA- United Kingdom+44 1634 232589

Welcome to our School's profile. Danecourt School forms part of the Maritime Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust that is committed to making sure that education is meaningful.

Our Trust is made up of 11 primary schools located in Greenwich, Bexley and Kent. Though our schools may be different with their own in-school culture and community spirit, they all work harmoniously and collaboratively together within a curriculum that ensures each and every child is being equipped with leadership and life skills. At Maritime, we do this by empowering schools to drive more meaningful and enjoyable outcomes for children by having great people working for us, who commit to working hard to make an impact whatever the school and whatever the role.

We are a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The children who attend Danecourt have a wide breadth of needs including complex learning difficulties and autism.

At Danecourt our mission is support all pupils to become “STARS”
- **S** - Self reliant

**T** - Team Players

**A** - Aspirational

**R** - Resilient

**S** - Successful

This is facilitated through pupils receiving a personalised curriculum that is tailored to meet their individual specific needs.

The highly trained staff team maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all reach their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families/carers and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils' needs and as a result, pupils make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

If you are interested in becoming a part of the Danecourt community and working with us, telephone the school and make an appointment to come and meet some of the pupils and staff and to experience for yourself the quality of education given to all of our children and the unique atmosphere throughout our school.