Targeted Provision Hiring for Educational Support Administrator Job at Brent, England Full Time

We are recruiting for an Educational Support Administrator to join our growing team supporting vulnerable or disadvantaged children and young people in receipt of additional support within schools across the country.

Who we are:

Targeted Provision is an alternative education provider who works with a variety of local authorities, care homes, and schools around the country to provide education support to the young people who need it most. Further info on us can be found at targetedprovision.com.

Role Description:

This role centres around supporting our work within schools, especially regarding our National Tutoring Programme provision, where we arrange specialist tuition support for vulnerable young people across the country. This includes working directly with schools, parents / carers, and other stakeholders to ensure the best possible outcome for the young people referred to us. Young people are referred to our service because they are in need of additional support or are not able to access mainstream education. This is due to a variety of reasons, including but not limited to; Special Education Needs and Disabilities, they are looked after and have recently moved to a location where a school place is not readily available, they have emotional, behavioural or mental health needs.

High Level Tasks:

• Reviewing and dispatching weekly progress reports.

• Monitor ongoing tuition and responding to tutor/school requests/queries.

• Ensuring a young person’s needs are being met.

• Liaising with our network of tutors.

• Liaising with parents/carers.

• Liaising with school contacts.

• Admin based tasks including monitoring multiple inboxes.

• Monitoring tutor quality

Experience Required:

• The role is fast paced and requires strong multi tasking and organisational ability, as well as high levels of empathy and interpersonal skills.

• IT literacy and experience managing a busy inbox / calendars and multiple deadlines is a must.

• Strong literacy skills are required with an attention to detail when proofreading.

• Our perfect candidate would have demonstrable experience working in a similarly fast paced environment, as well as a personal passion for impact driven work.

• A knowledge and understanding of the education landscape in the UK is desirable but not essential, however, a drive to help young people is a fundamental requirement of this role.

Other requirements include:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work as part of a supportive team.

• An up to date enhanced DBS (we can help you obtain this if needed).

• 2 professional references.

Desired:

• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding in education.

• Experience working for / with local authorities / schools.

• Knowledge of special education needs.

• Experience delivering excellent customer service.

Benefits:

The starting salary is 23k. Other benefits include flexible working options (we would consider part time or job share options for the right candidate), 28 days holiday, access to training and development, and being involved in an exciting and fast growing business.

Please note that our recruitment process will be conducted in line with our safer recruitment and anti-discrimination policy and procedures.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £23,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Yes