School Secretary

at Orchard House School

Upon the move of the school's senior secretary to the rôle of registrar, this highly successful and well regarded IAPS preparatory school in Chiswick requires a highly efficient 'can-do' multi-tasking person in the busy office, to work full-time from Monday to Friday in term-time and for occasional short sessions during the school holidays.

As co-secretary, the successful candidate will have excellent IT/MS Office (MS Word™, Excel™, database merge) capabilities together with good people-management skills. He or she will work alongside the school's other secretary and will report to the headmistress. Experience working in a school and/or with children may be an advantage. Together with good written English, accuracy and attention to detail are also essential. The work is always varied and yields high job satisfaction.

Salary will depend upon experience and the proportion of the year to be worked (about 40 weeks) but will be equivalent to the rate for a PA to a partner in a central London law firm.

References will be essential; the school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with previous employers and an enhanced check with the Criminal Records Bureau.

HOW TO APPLY

Please read the full job description here.

If you wish to apply, you will need to complete the following forms (please save each file on your computer before you start completing them and then send the files to the email below):

Both the pdf and Word versions should accept an applicant's typed entries. Alternatively, the forms may be printed out, then completed in manuscript and returned by e-mail as a scanned pdf.

These forms should be saved with your name within the file name and sent as attachments to an e-mail, together with any additional CV and a brief scanned hand-written cover letter, to jobs@orchardhs.org.uk

If other than receiving an automated e-mail response you do not hear back from the school after you have sent in your application, it means that the school has decided not to take your application any further.

The closing date to apply for this job is 9 March 2012 but, as the school reserves the right to make an appointment of an appropriately qualified strong candidate before this date, an early application may be favoured.

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