Administration Officer (Maths Hub) - The Woodroffe School

Woodroffe is an excellent school with a national reputation. It is widely recognised as one of the best schools in the southwest.  Woodroffe is the founding school of the Jurassic Coast Teacher Network, leading and supporting an alliance of schools across the region, and is one of only 40 Maths Hubs in the country. 

As a successful school, to get the best from our students, we take care of our staff. In addition to an extensive wellbeing offer, we are always looking at how we might reduce workload to ensure a sustainable work-life balance for all. We believe that just because our staff work in education, they shouldn’t be excluded from those activities that make life fulfilling.

At Woodroffe, you will receive excellent professional development opportunities, offering career paths and a potential for promotion within the school.

The Woodroffe School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

The Woodroffe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements. Pay award pending.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The Woodroffe School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.