Trust Clerk

Job Description

Trust Clerk - Discovery Educational Trust

Salary: Essex Scale 5; £3,107 - £3,321 actual pay for 38 weeks, 5 hours per week, including fringe allowance. Hourly rate of £14.29 to £15.27 plus holiday entitlement. Cost of living pay award pending for April 2024.

Work pattern/Location: Hybrid, part time role: 190 annualised hours / 5 hours a week, term time.

Start date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: 18 November

We are seeking an experienced, professional individual with exceptional administrative and organisational skills to join our Governance Team. You will provide clerking and administrative support to the Trust Board and its Committees. This role is pivotal to the smooth running of a busy calendar of meetings across the Trust's sites.

You will be working as part of a supportive and collegiate team, which places the needs of children and young people at the heart of everything we do.

This is a hybrid part time role, with travel involved across all of the Trust's sites in Brentwood and Westcliff-on-Sea, with plenty of opportunity for remote working.

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 9 September (sooner, if possible) for an ASAP start. We may decide to close the advertisement sooner in the event that suitable candidates are shortlisted before the closing date.

Information about the School

Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 students and 500 staff, across 5 schools.

Our schools are:

• Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea)
• St. Martin's School (Brentwood)
• Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood)
• Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood)
• Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood)

We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum.

Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do. We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion.

We offer ongoing training and professional development for all staff in a supportive and collaborative environment, along with the following employee benefits:

• Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance • Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates to join Discovery Educational Trust • Two-week October half term • Employee savings and discounts • Employee Assistance Programme – free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants • Mental Health First Aiders – we have qualified MHFA England trainers within the Trust and continue to add to our pool of trained MHFAs • Bike2Work scheme • Ongoing training and professional development in a supportive and collaborative environment

As an equal opportunities employer, Discovery Educational Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (which includes ethnic origin, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Discovery Educational Trust.

The Discovery Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding our students against radicalisation and extremism and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted.  This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.