Witherslack Group
Administrative Assistant
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Administrative Assistant
School Administrator
Salary: £31,081 - £31,527 + Excellent Benefits
About the Role
Those huge small victories – Our teams are fulfilled by facilitating even the smallest positive changes in young people. For some pupils, simply working their way through a lesson can feel like a huge win—cumulatively, these moments create a meaningful transformative impact.
You’ll bolster our day-to-day operations, supporting senior team members and delivering exceptional administrative excellence. From managing files, generating reports, and ensuring efficient day-to-day function, your high-level organisational hit is what keeps our school running smoothly.
Tailored support for young people at the heart of their unseen confidence.
Based in an 18th-century building in Mitcham, Lavender Lodge School provides an inclusive and innovative experience for learners from across London, who come here to grow with a life-changing love of learning. Our pupils depart having built critical achievement and confidence.
We are recently recognised as Good by Ofsted.
Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support to the school, including coordinating operations, managing documentation, and programme implementation.
- Develop and distribute timely reports and ensure trustworthy processing and compliance.
- Work flexibly across various administrative tasks, maintaining a professional and proactive attitude.
- Assist all school staff by documenting important information, auditing records, and handling liaison tasks.
- Maintain the logistics of events, automation systems, or specialised functions as needed with achievable and structured teamwork.
Must-Have Skills
- Proven experience in supporting education or manager administration roles within a busy setting.
- Hands-on experience with organisational tools, ERP, or document management systems.
- Excellent customer relations skills to foster strong relationships with colleagues and pupils.
- Ability to multitask efficiently; juggle multiple tasks simultaneously with minimal oversight.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, coupled with flexibility in engaging with young people in various ways.
- Expertise with autism strategies, including Makaton, Ofsted PODD and PECS for pupils communication needs.
- Experience with neurodiversity challenges and the ability to support with bright ideas for learning, and 1:1 mentorship bus the school considers a broad spectrum like complex learning needs and ADHD.
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Desirable Experience
- Past demonstrations of understanding and supporting challenging or unsafe behaviours workably whilst driving compliance and supportive care studies to foster a learning environment.
- Willingness to collaborate with autistic pupils and asset-based teaching methodologies such as TEACCH and microlearning strategies.
- Open mind retain focus on individualised learning paths, technology and ensuring engagement regardless of pupils’ communication barriers.
Our Commitment to You
We pay you better with a beautifully balanced benefits package. You’ll play a truly life-changing role in the lives of young people and grow to our flexible, strengths-based environment.
- Excellent training and induction to set you up for success.
- Full school holidays alongside competitive pay.
- A range of flexible benefits that can cater to your specific lifestyle.
- Top-notch support and wellbeing tools to help you do your best work.
- Comprehensive medical benefits (opticians, dentistry) and discounts.
- A recommend a friend scheme that rewards you with £1,000 for each introduction leading to a successful hire.
- Stunning facilities with all the best resources and facilities.
- A diverse inclusive school environment that cevitalises unique student strengths and human difference.
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Many Careers Here? We Welcome All
At Witherslack Group our mission aligns with the belief in inclusivity. Everyone's journey is a unique blend of identity, need, and talent. Our goal is to widen the participation and celebrate difference - creating a thriving workplace that supports learners from backgrounds such as special education, diversity, or neurodifference.
If you see yourself in this role and want to contribute to our legacy of independence and growth for young people:
- Previous specialist administrative experience.
- Customer service initiative essential, spoken and written.
- Self-driven initiative and ability to start projects without supervision.
- Positive, hands-on dedication required, with a rewarding difference in everyone we empower.
Our Principles
- We are a leading SEN facility specialising in ideas, incubation of blended care and supported learning paths.
- We celebrate diversity and prioritise expansive inclusion values, showing profoundly in our unique strategies.
- We safeguard and encourage accessible recruitment; enhanced DBS checks ready to include you.
- A perceptions policy shared uniformity with vision statements around disability and equality.
We embrace all and strive to represent the bright possibilities for all career endeavours within the SEN learning ribbon. Apply now and join a family proud of standing on their own unique ground.
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