School Administrator With Responsibility For Send Admin

Overview and Responsibilities

School Administrator with responsibility forSEND Admin

Location: Wakefield

Contract Type: Full-time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Term Time Only

Salary: £12.15 - £13.14 p/hr depending on experience (Actual salary £20,352.77 to £22,011.14)

Close date: N/A The role will remain open until it is filled - Please apply early as we reserve the right to close roles when we have a suitable level of interest.  

Aurora Ivy LaneSchool

We’re an expanding specialist school providing education for young people aged 11 to 19 with complex care needs including behaviours that challenge and learning disabilities, often in association with autism spectrum conditions.  We work hard to ensure students have a holistic and supportive environment, enabling them to flourish and develop in all aspects of life. 

Based in Wakefield; we are currently looking to recruit an experienced School Administrator with responsibility forSEND Admin.

The Role

This is a busy and varied role providing efficient and professional secretarial and administrative support to the school, and the therapy team. This involves prioritising workload effectively under pressure and coping with conflicting demands and interruptions in order to meet internally and externally imposed deadlines.

Key duties

• Be responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date records on the schools Management Information System (Engage)
• Assisting and liaising with the referrals team and organising assessment dates etc
• Planning of all Annual Review meetings and documentation ensuring deadlines are met.
• Supporting the EHCP review process.
• Updating all relevant documentation including Provision Maps, Student Support Plans, Pathway plans and other documentation as required.
• Drafting correspondence to parents, agencies, professionals, staff and internal correspondence
• Taking minutes across a range of SEND and therapy meetings, communicate actions and follow up on completion.

The role requires someone who pays meticulous attention to detail, has energy, enthusiasm, a calm manner, the ability to prioritise, a flexible working approach and being able to cope with conflicting demands and interruptions in order to meet internally and externally imposed deadlines.

A full job description is available on request – please email Karen in the Recruitment Team at

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:  

• Demonstrable experience of working in administrative roles
• Ideally (but not essential) to have knowledge of Educational Health and Care Plans or experience of working within a school environment.
• Good level of literacy and numeracy (at least 5 GCSEs above C to include English and Maths).
• Computer literacy – essential packages are Excel, Word, Outlook, and Powerpoint.
• Understanding of how to write/ communicate information to different audiences.
• Good organisational skills ability to work accurately with attention to detail.
• Ability to manage own time to deal with multiple tasks.
• High levels of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support.  We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further.  Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are.  You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more.  You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations.  We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills.  You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.  If you need any assis