Admissions Officer - The Beaconsfield School
Location: Beaconsfield
Overview
We are looking to recruit a School Admissions Officer to process applications to join The Beaconsfield School. The role includes both managing the admissions process for students joining the school in Year 7 and in year admissions for all year groups. The school has a three year upward trend of growing admissions and is now heavily oversubscribed. The role is part time, the exact hours are negotiable, there is also flexibility to work remotely for part of the role.
Term time only
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: BPS Grade 4 FTE £30,361-£32,594
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 20
Closing date: 22/05/2025 09:00
Interviews to be held: On receipt of suitable applications
About us
As a school we are creative in our curriculum and we treat each child as an individual; because of this, learning and progress is at the centre of everything we do. We work towards making the selective system irrelevant. We have 870 students, with a growing 6th form and just fewer than 100 staff at the school.
Website: www.beaconsfield.bucks.sch.uk
About the role
Managing the schools admissions, monitoring the number of applications to join the school as well as leavers and ensuring compliance with the school admissions code. You will be a key and informed point of contact for parents, schools, and colleagues in dealing efficiently with queries, requests and providing up to date advice in relation to all admissions processes.
Our recent OFSTED inspection in May 2024 made the following comments about teaching and relationships at school.:
· Pupils are highly positive about their school. Staff are highly ambitious for all pupils, and pupils recognise and value this.
· Pupils’ behaviour is good. Lessons are calm and purposeful. Pupils’ attitudes to learning are positive.
· The curriculum is ambitious for all pupils and provides a strong foundation for their future learning. In most subjects, staff clearly set out what pupils need to know, and the order in which they need to learn it.
· Teachers have detailed subject expertise.
Our school vision is to ensure every student realises their potential, through every member of our community having high aspirations for success, both within and beyond the classroom. You will be joining a highly skilled staff, who are supportive, show determination and resolve.
Why should you work at The Beaconsfield School?
· Highly supportive staff body, including a staff committee responsible for representing staff wellbeing
· Bespoke professional opportunities including support to undertake Masters and NPQ programmes
· Significant investment in a newly refurbished staff room and staff workroom
· Dedicated time within the school day for co-planning
· Free tea and coffee for all staff, we believe in providing the best possible working environment for staff and small gestures make a big difference.
The Beaconsfield School has good road links to London, Reading, Maidenhead and Oxford – situated just 5 minutes from the M40 and a 10-minute walk from Beaconsfield Train Station.
About you
You need to be highly organised and systematic in your approach. The role involves communicating with a range of different stakeholders; parents/students/staff as well as the local authority and other schools. Whilst the exact hours worked can be negotiated for the successful candidate, there will be set times of the year when the workload will be higher than others, a willingness to work flexibly is necessary.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Please send completed application forms to Mrs C Legg the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 673450
Email: [email protected]
The Beaconsfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
