Admissions Officer - Bradford, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd
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Bradford, United Kingdom

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What's involved with this role:


Temporary Admissions Officer / Team Leader - Children's Services

Reference no:
Bradford

Pay rate:
£11.27 per hour PAYE

Role Length:
This opening assignment is for 6 months

  • Ensure that the LA's statutory responsibilities are carried out in accordance with admissions law.
  • Responsible for the development and review of admissions software and other systems to improve processes in administering and recording in year admissions data for analysis and reporting purposes for senior management and elected members.
  • Maintain and develop knowledge of current legislation and other educational factors that affect admissions and appeals in order to contribute to policy development and review.
  • Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external services to support the safeguarding of children, eg schools, Behaviour Support, SEN, LAC Team, Education Social Work, New Communities and Traveller services, Legal Services, Social Services, etc.
  • Regularly liaise with senior primary school staff and the secondary Behaviour and Attendance Collaboratives/Task Groups to ensure timely admission of children missing education through the Fair Access Protocols. This will require the post holder to attend meetings where necessary and use own judgement, advocacy and negotiation skills to attain the best possible outcome.
  • Review performance, identify and provide training and support for nine admission officers relating to the In Year admissions and Fair Access process.
  • Support vulnerable families (eg LAC, child protection, domestic violence cases) through timely liaison with relevant agencies and schools, maintaining confidentiality at all times.

"Role Requirements" - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:


Qualifications:


  • Five GCSEs A
  • C.
  • NVQ Level 3 /three A levels/ BTEC National Diploma OR demonstrable experience in an administrative role at a supervisory level.

Experience & Knowledge:


  • Experience of collaborative working relationships with internal and external services and ability to use effective negotiation and advocacy skills to influence outcomes.
  • A minimum of three years administration experience using effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
  • Understanding of the working practices, complex regulations, procedures and operations across the specialist area relating to school admissions
  • Experience of working to tight deadlines with accuracy and deal effectively with competing priorities.
  • Experience of working with a range of IT systems and effective use of them for analytical purposes.
  • Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
  • Knowledge of school admissions and appeals law.
  • Knowledge of the costs for products and services within own area of responsibility.

Skills:


  • Effective communication skills.
  • Ability to work on own initiative, exercising judgement and making complex decisions.
  • Ability to use a range of complex IT packages relating to school admissions including Capita ONE, Microsoft Office and Northgate.
  • Good organisation skills.
  • Excellent customer service skills.
  • Able to understand how to analyse, interpret and present complex information from a variety of sources in order to inform decision making and review of procedures.
  • Ability to monitor and delegate workloads.
  • Ability to diffuse difficult situations and intervene to provide support to colleagues as necessary.
  • A confident approach when liaising with a range of stakeholders.

_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._

Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:


  • Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
  • Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
  • Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
  • Unless the DBS requirement stated above is f
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