PA to the Principal

Where Possible Interviews Will Be Held On Site Within Our Schools And We Will Adhere To Our Current Covid Policy For External Visitors. Otherwise Interviews Will Be Held Remotely By Teams.

Working Pattern: 8:15am To 3:30pm With A 30 Minute Unpaid Lunch Break. Monday To Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a PA to the Principal to join the team at Cuddington Community Primary School. This role provides professional, efficient, proactive and responsive administrative and executive support to the Principal, Senior Leadership Team and the wider School community.

Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal skills and listening skills with a commitment to helping. The postholder will maintain confidentiality in and outside of the workplace, be pro-active in matters relating to health and safety and report accidents as required, and support the aims and ethos of the school setting a good example in terms of dress, behaviour, punctuality and behaviour, punctuality and attendance.

The successful candidate will be educated to A level or equivalent, be able to demonstrate high level administrative/organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to prioritise and plan their own workload in the context of dealing with conflicting priorities.

THPT can offer:

• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation

• Excellent benefit package to include Cycle to Work, Sainsbury’s Loyalty Discount and access to discount schemes

• Fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions

• Rewards and Benefits Scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards

Cuddington is on a journey to become an outstanding primary school:

• We are developing excellent primary pedagogy and practice together with a dynamic and engaging curriculum

• Class teachers have opportunity to be involved in continuing to shape a creative rich curriculum for their class

• We have worked closely with the Surrey Plus Maths Hub to develop practice

• We work closely with our local community to offer fantastic opportunities to children

• Our learning environment includes an expansive outdoor space for enriching learning, an outdoor heated swimming pool and a fantastic learning hub combining IT and library facility

• Our children are excellently behaved and our team is a supportive and caring one

• We offer an outstanding professional development programme and a successful, supportive and highly strategic Senior Leadership Team.

Pre-employment checks

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check and other pre-employment checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Our Vision is to excel at ‘bringing out the best’ in young people of all abilities and aptitudes, and so increase their life chances for their future success and fulfilment.