Vacancies

Description:

Harrogate High School is proud to be part of Northern Star Academies Trust, an innovative and growing multi-academy trust based around a centralised executive management function and three geographical ‘hubs’ – Harrogate, Skipton and Keighley, enabling the sharing and managing of resources in support of the local hub schools. The ICT Technician role is critical to the effective and efficient running of the schools in the Harrogate Hub. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, positive, well organised and possess the ability to work in close partnership with staff from across the schools and colleagues in the MAT Centre.

You will:

• Work alongside another technician being responsible for the day-to-day support of all ICT services at Harrogate High School, being a point of contact for IT support escalation and problem management within the schools
• Work within the Trust ICT team to help support all primary schools across the Harrogate Hub
• Take a proactive approach in dealing with IT support requests and software / equipment faults to ensure a high standard of support is always maintained;
• Monitor all critical systems, such as anti-virus, networking equipment, server hardware systems and respond to alerts generated by these systems appropriately;
• Work closely with the Exams and Cover Manager to implement and support all online examination client / server software for individual examination boards;
• Be efficient, organised and capable in order to prioritise tasks effectively;
• Be approachable and possess excellent interpersonal skills

Applicants will ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working as an IT Technician preferably in a similar environment. We can offer a commitment to your professional development, the opportunity to work in partnership with colleagues from primary and secondary schools across the MAT and the chance to be a part of something truly special. If you want to make a difference and are committed to improving life chances for children, we would love to meet you.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Both posts are subject to an enhanced DBS clearance.

Key dates:

Closing date:
N/A

Interviews:
TBC

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Description:

We are looking to appoint a confident, effective and highly motivated Personal Care Assistant to support new students commencing their secondary school experience. The role will require you to work alongside students who require additional support to access our exciting and varied curriculum, providing support both physically and emotionally to support a successful transition and academic progress. Applicants should be kind, resilient and patient with a good sense of humour and be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. The desire to see each student flourish and reach their full potential using a variety of support strategies is crucial. The successful candidate will have an awareness of safeguarding procedures within school and have had experience appropriate to working with children.

Key dates:

Closing date:
9am, Thursday 23rd September 2021

Interviews:
TBC

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Description:

We are seeking someone who is committed to working under the direction and supervision of the Facilities Manager to ensure that the school premises and facilities are available for both educational and allied usage, and kept to a clean, secure, safe and well-maintained standard. The successful candidate will assist in ensuring that Harrogate High School students have a pleasant, safe and suitable environment in which to learn and to assist with the school’s community use programme by providing caretaking duties outside of school hours. Whilst this role will predominately be an evening post a degree of flexibility is required to provide support within this small but dedicated team.

Key dates:

Closing date:
9am, Tuesday 28th September

Interviews:
TBC on shortlisting

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Description:

We are looking to appoint two confident, effective and highly motivated Teaching Assistants who will make a positive contribution to the achievement of all of our students. The role will require you to work alongside students in all year groups and provide support and guidance both socially and emotionally, and also to support academic progress. Applicants should be kind, resilient and patient with a good sense of humour and be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. The desire to see each student flourish and reach their full potential using a variety of support strategies is crucial. The successful candidate will have an awareness of safeguarding procedures within school and have had experience appropriate to working with children.

Key dates:

Closing date:
9am, Tuesday 5th October

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Description:

We are looking for a reliable and enthusiastic individual to join our Facilities team and support the school in ensuring the environment is safe, clean and compliant for all, to carry out cleaning duties within allocated timescales, whilst taking a flexible approach in order to meet the school’s requirements.

Duties will include (but not exhaustive):

• General dusting of furniture, fixings and fittings
• Emptying waste paper bins
• Wiping surfaces, fixtures, fittings & paintwork
• Cleaning around toilet areas
• Dust control mopping / sweeping of floors
• Vacuuming floors
• Using cleaning materials as instructed

Key dates:

Closing date:
9am, Tuesday 5th October 2021

Interviews:
TBC

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Description:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic person to provide finance support to the school, in a very varied role, which includes working alongside members of the Finance team to:

• Day to day processing of HHS accounts including raising requisitions, checking against set department budgets, processing orders, tracking, checking deliveries.
• Support members of staff responsible for delegated budgets with procedures to enable them to monitor their budgets.
• Assist members of staff with administration or finance related queries.
• Act as the first point of contact from parents re. queries about payments they are asked to make, and if a refund is required, liaise with the central finance team for processing.

You will need to be able to demonstrate flexibility and an enthusiasm to learn and have experience of working in an administrative capacity previously. This role involves teamwork and the ability to manage and prioritise own workloads. The successful candidate will have an awareness of safeguarding procedures within school and preferably have had experience of working with children.

Key dates:

Closing date:
9am, Tuesday 5th October 2021

Interviews:
TBC

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