Wigan Life Centre South
College Avenue
Wigan
WN1 1NJ
Salary: Grade 4, £23,500 - £24,702 per annum. £12.18 - £12.80 per hour
37 hours per week
Permanent
Your role:
We are seeking to appoint to a vacant post within the exciting and challenging role of School Organisation and Admissions Assistant. This is a varied post and requires the candidate to work across a broad area of work related to school admissions and school organisation.
Your role involves supporting the delivery of service objectives for school organisation, admissions and asset management. You will mainly be responsible for processing school application forms and applying over subscription criteria correctly to determine who places should be allocated to. And support the organisation and preparation for school admissions appeals. You will support the School Organisation Officers to enable delivery of our statutory duties.
About you:
The ideal person for this role needs to be able to undertake a range of administrative task. You must have excellent organisational skills and have the ability to manage your own workload and use your own initiative. A good knowledge and experience of using computer systems such as databases, spreadsheets, word-processing packages, and emails is key to this role. The role at times is demanding so experience in working in an administrative role or school admissions is beneficial.
About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
The School Organisation Team are responsible for the demand and supply of school places within the Wigan borough. The team has a busy and varied workload and member of staff are given every opportunity to thrive and develop their skills.
Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.
Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.
To be appointable in this role you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK. If you are unsure, please visit the below link to check you qualify to apply. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
For further information, please contact Rebecca Barker, Admissions Manager at r.barker@wigan.gov.uk
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Interview date: Week Commencing Monday 29th April 2024