Administrative Assistant (Staff Attendance and Absence Management)

The Avenue Special School; Reading; In loco; GBP 18.000 - 24.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Avenue Special School in Reading is seeking an Admin Assistant to record staff sickness absences, monitor attendance, and report findings to the leadership team. You will input data into the school's system and track return-to-work dates.

The role requires strong administration experience, good literacy and numeracy, and excellent Microsoft Office skills. You will work with a busy HR/administration team, communicating clearly with staff and managers and taking initiative to keep attendance

Competenze

• Proven administration experience, ideally within a HR Department.
• Strong literacy and numeracy skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Good communication and organisational abilities.
• Flexible, reliable team player with initiative.

Mansioni

• Record staff sickness absences accurately on the school system.
• Receive and process absence requests and notifications from staff and managers.
• Track return-to-work dates and notify managers when interviews are required.
• Monitor absence against school triggers and ensure self-certification forms are completed.

Conoscenze

Administration experience

HR awareness

Literacy and numeracy

Microsoft Office

Communication

Organisational skills

Initiative

Strumenti

Microsoft Office

Descrizione del lavoro

We are looking for an Admin Assistant who will support the recording, monitoring and reporting of staff sickness absence and attendance across the school.

Your role will involve recording all staff sickness absences accurately on our system, receiving and processing absence requests and notifications from employees and managers, tracking return to work dates and notifying managers when return to work interviews are required, ensuring self-certification forms are completed and monitoring absence against school triggers.

The successful candidate will:-

• have demonstrable administration experience, ideally within a HR Department
• have good literacy and numeracy skills
• be highly proficient in Microsoft office
• have good communication and organisational skills
• be flexible, reliable, a good team player and some-one who likes using their initiative.

Why work with us?

• We are a friendly school
• Term-time hours that fit around family life
• On-site parking and good public transport links
• Social events, free tea/coffee, and the option of buying staff lunches from our canteen.