Pt Elective Home Education Business Administrator

What's involved with this role:
Temporary PT Elective Home Education Business Administrator
Reference no: Merton 5251157
Pay rate: £15.03 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 25 Monday – Friday, normal working hours (Term time plus 3 weeks in school holidays)
This opening assignment is for 7-8 months
City: MORDEN, London
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minute taking skills and experience are essential for this role
A PT Elective Home Education Business Administrator is required to work in a small team and provide effective administration support in the delivery of Elective Home Education. Up to 25 hours per week worked over 4 or 5 days. Term time plus 3 weeks in school holidays. Working hours can be across four days of 6 hours or across 5 days at 5 hours a day and the hours could fit around school hours.
Key responsibilities:
Provide business administrative support for Elective Home Education.
Make and answer telephone calls dealing with enquiries.
Communicate with schools, parents, colleagues and other LA’s by telephone and e-mail.
Record information accurately on EHE and enter this on databases that are used to record information.
Support EHE Advisor on home visits for tracking and casework.
Attend meetings regarding EHE.
Search, maintain and update database and systems.
Send letters to parents/carers relating to Elective Home Education.
Proofread reports and correct prior to these being sent to the parent/carer.
Give advice and support to parents/carers, schools and other professionals about Elective Home Education.
Share information with other boroughs around Elective Home Education and Children Missing Education.
Minute meetings for the EWS.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Minimum of a GCSE grade C or 5 in English Language, with strong written and spoken skills in English.
Experience:
Minute taking skills and experience are essential.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge:
An understanding of the importance of confidentiality, inside and outside the workplace.
Knowledge of customer care, able to deal professionally with customers.
Knowledge of the education system and willingness to learn about Elective Home Education.
Skills & Abilities:
Competent with e-mail, excel, word and outlook and application in 365 and effective use of the internet (to produce high quality, clear and concise recording and documentation) as well as a willingness to learn how to use Synergy and Mosaic.
An interest in education and a willingness to learn about Elective Home Education (EHE).
Ability to communicate with schools, parents, colleagues and other Local Authorities by telephone, letter and e-mail.
Good communication and people skills with a good telephone manner.
Accurate and meticulous with good attention to detail.
Able to work in a team and complete a range of administration tasks.
Able to meet prioritise tasks, respond to changing demands and to meet deadlines and manage own time effectively.
Able to work under pressure, be flexible and use initiative, asking for and giving support as needed.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Job Ref: Merton 5251157
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
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