Administration Assistant

Organisational skills with the ability to set targets and meet deadlines, planning and prioritising individual workload. • Tactful and discreet, with the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times. • Able to provide customer service in a professional manner. • Ability to work from instruction, making some decisions involving the use of initiative, and to identify emerging problems and situations referring on to others as appropriate. • Experience of working co-operatively with others to deliver successful outcomes for Plymouth CAST. • A team player who has a positive approach to dealing with issues.Educated to GCSE level or equivalent qualification or experience. NVQ 2 or equivalent (desirable). Experience of working in a busy office providing efficient general administrative and finance administration, including ash handling. Experienced in using school IT systems such as SIMS and Excel (spreadsheets). Experience of using and maintain ICT hardware such as printers, faxes and photocopying machines. Experience of using financial management systems. Preferably experience of working within a School environment and as a result a knowledge of safeguarding practices, child protection procedures and the day to day running of a school.