Ellacombe C of E Academy (Learning Academy Partnership)

This post is fixed term until 31st August 2025.

Hours: 28 hours per week, 38 weeks per annum

Required to start as soon as possible.

The Learning Academy Partnership has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Family Support and Attendance Administrator to join our School Trust, based in Ellacombe C of E Academy.

Ellacombe, in the heart of Torquay, prides itself on offering high academic outcomes through an engaging and motivating curriculum. Our children are at the very core of everything we do, and a strong sense of family runs through every part of our community.

We are looking for someone who shares our values to join our committed team, working to ensure that we serve our children and communities to the best of our abilities. No day will be the same and you will work alongside a highly caring and compassionate team to support our most vulnerable families at Ellacombe. This role includes an element of school administration, including dealing with telephone and email queries, maintaining safeguarding procedures and all nursery administration such as Free School Meals and Pupil Premium applications.

Working alongside our existing administrator and family support team, you will also work closely with children and families to provide early intervention, support, and guidance. By building relationships with families and supporting them to raise attendance levels, you will be helping to remove barriers to learning and ensure every child, even the most vulnerable, can flourish. Due to the nature of this role, candidates would need to be available at the start and end of the school day.

Our ideal candidate will be a passionate and dynamic practitioner with previous experience of supporting families and communities to empower change. This role lends itself to someone who is highly motivated, with a wide range of administrative and interpersonal skills. You’ll be happy to work independently whilst following processes, as well as collaboratively as part of the wider Trust team and with external agencies. Our ideal candidate will be extremely organised with a keen eye for detail, who can be calm whilst prioritising their work and can demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills.

Our Trust is dedicated to building an authentic workforce, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience looks a little different to what we’ve identified, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the perfect candidate!

We are looking for someone who is inspired by our Trust mission and can empower our children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to flourish. We are proud that we are a single organisation with a shared responsibility for all children, and one where you will feel professionally nourished through our extensive development practice and strong wellbeing offer.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider communities that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. Our People strategy enables us to nurture, develop and support our colleagues so that they can provide the very best for our children.

Our School Trust is underpinned by our four core beliefs; we are stronger together, a sense of belonging; removing barriers and realising the possible. This means that by working collectively, we can achieve our absolute best to ensure that children, especially the most vulnerable, can flourish.

We can offer you:
• The opportunity to make a profound difference to children’s lives
• An impactful People Strategy that enables us to nurture, develop and support our colleagues so that they can provide the very best for our children
• A culture that takes work-life balance extremely seriously for all its colleagues
• The chance to work as part of a collective in a values-led school Trust, a single organisation.
• High quality professional development and regular training to develop your knowledge and skills
• A strong, proactive wellbeing network across the school Trust
• The potential for future career development
• Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Trust benefit schemes including Cycle and Tech schemes
• Generous Local Government Pension Scheme

All our schools are each at the centre of their local communities and celebrate their individuality and distinctiveness. A core feature in how we work as a School Trust is our collective approach in delivering an exceptional education for all children. We do this through working very closely together in mutual support and challenge to empower excellence for our children, families, and the communities that we serve.

In short, our ethos is one of working together to Empower, Excel, Together.

The Learning Academy Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS disclosures are required for this post along with the other necessary checks. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

We want to support you in deciding if we are a School Trust that you would like to join. We recommend that you arrange a visit or virtual call so that you can better understand if we are an organisation which excites you and can support you to flourish. Please contact Alison Helm to arrange an appointment.

Please apply by 9am Thursday 3rd October 2024 however please feel free to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be considered upon receipt. We reserve the right to interview / appoint before the closing date. Interviews will take place soon after