Admissions Assistant

Role Overview

Safeguarding Requirements

• Successful applicants must complete enhanced child protection screening and relevant background checks.
• Checks may include references, qualification verification, identification, and police checks, including overseas checks.
• Staff cannot start until required checks are complete.

Job Purpose

• Work with the Admissions Manager to provide a professional admissions service to enquirers, applicants, and families.
• Provide administrative support, maintain efficient procedures, and contribute to admissions projects.
• Communicate daily with academic staff, pupils, and visiting families.
• Handle enquiries, appointments, interviews, and testing as appropriate.
• Understand the Admissions Manager role and provide cover when the manager is unavailable.

Key Accountabilities

• Enter data accurately and within appropriate timescales into the student database from initial enquiry onward.
• Undertake database training and create admissions statistical reports to monitor targets and identify trends.
• Support the Admissions Manager with recruitment and meet families about enquiries and applications.
• Provide general administrative support and respond to telephone and email enquiries.
• Send promotional literature and manage correspondence, documentation, filing, and outstanding records.
• Process admissions documents and support student enrolment administration.
• Attend virtual and in-person admissions events, open days, taster days, and coffee mornings.
• Conduct school tours and promote the school’s academic and non-academic achievements.

School Values

Application Process

• Applications must include an up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining suitability for the role.