HR Administrative Assistant

Job Description

HR Administrative Assistant

Required for December 2024

Closing date: Midday Tuesday 19th November 2024

37 hours per week

8.00am - 4.00pm Monday - Thursday

8.00am - 3.30pm Friday

Term time + INSET days + 3 weeks

Starting Salary Scale 7 Point 19 (Actual Salary £28,659 per annum)

Application forms are available at www.shsg.org/vacancies/#how-to-apply

Applications and supporting letters to be submitted to recruitment@shsg.org

We are seeking an enthusiastic and reliable HR Administrative Assistant to join our friendly team of Support Staff in a fast-paced professional work environment.

This position requires excellent organisational skills and the ability to handle sensitive information confidentially. You will be required to work closely with the Senior Leadership Team providing administrative support on a variety of personnel related tasks.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and reliable HR Administrative Assistant to join our friendly team of Support Staff in a fast-paced professional work environment.

If you are passionate about HR and want to help create a nurturing workplace this position is for you.

Experience of in an educational establishment would be an advantage for this role, but is not essential.

The successful candidate will:

· Update and maintain the HR database, including employee information, sickness absence and holiday records.

· Assist in payroll preparation, providing relevant payroll data for new starters, leavers, sickness absence and salary information.

· Provide all administrative support in the recruitment process following the Safer Recruitment requirements.

· Update and maintain the Single Central Record.

· Provide administrative support in the Induction process and Performance management processes.

· Update and maintain all policies and procedures relating to HR and Personnel.

· Maintain confidentiality and Data Protection adherence.

· Have excellent communication skills and a professional friendly manner.

· Be organised and efficient and able to prioritise workload effectively.

We can offer you:

· A strong, highly committed team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit

· Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing

· An environment which promotes innovation

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls' grammar school rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.

For all enquiries please contact Karen Lacey recruitment@shsg.org

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.

Information about the School

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status, steeped in history, and built on strong traditions and values, combining tradition with innovative approaches to teaching and learning and curriculum delivery. We are an outward facing school, ambitious and proactive in researching and learning about the best practices. Our friendly, ‘family-orientated’ ethos is at the heart of all that we do; our core principles are to ensure that everyone is ‘safe, happy and successful.’

Southend High School for Girls has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful. Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations, and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.

Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief, and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges. Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.

Our academic ethos is underpinned by a culture of teaching which centres on Trivium 21C approaches where the tradition of grammar and knowledge form the foundations for questioning, reasoning, communicating, and learning. An SHSG student is encouraged to develop a swashbuckling approach to their learning and personal development journey from Year 7 to Year 13, confident to take risks and engaging in learning adventures with gusto and flamboyance.

We believe in the importance of creating a strong sense of pride, shared identity, teamwork and belonging in our school for every member of the SHSG family. Once a member of the SHSG family, you are always a member of the SHSG family and have a lifelong connection to the school, its people, values and traditions.

We truly believe that Southend High School for Girls is a special place to work. Our students are highly motivated, curious, and hard-working, and our staff are ambitious for them. It is a privilege to learn and to work at Southend High School for Girls.

Local Area

Southend High School for Girls is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-On-Sea, Essex. The schools location is easily accessible with links by road to the A13, the A127 and the M25 can be reached in under 30 minutes. London is 35 miles away with direct and regular rail services to Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street from several local stations. The closest train station to the school is Southend.

Southend and the locality offer Department stores, exclusive shops and popular street markets, and a modern library within close distance of the town centre. The local districts and towns such as Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff, Thorpe Bay and Southchurch are full of shopping and cultural facilities including museums and art galleries. The town's parks and gardens are well-known features and Belfairs Park and Nature Reserve is popular with bird-watchers and nature lovers. Within a short distance of Southchurch is the open countryside with many places of interest to visit.

Southend offers many recreational opportunities. There are lots of different sport activities available through both public and private facilities for swimming, tennis and golf and with seven miles of seafront, windsurfing, angling, sailing and paddle boarding are popular. Southend Pier is a major landmark in the City of Southend-on-Sea. Extending 2.16 kilometres into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. It is serviced by its own trains and is one of the town's oldest landmarks.