Sixth Form Admin Apprentice

Supervise a Sixth Form study room offering guidance and admin support whilst encouraging independent learning. Provide administrative support to the Assistant Head Teacher (Head of Sixth Form), the Sixth Form team and the Sixth Form Learning Supervisor.

What you'll do

Regular duties include:

• Supervision of students during their timetabled supervised study and private study periods

Attendance:

• Collection and collation of absence notes and messages, and register student entry
• First day absence calls to KS5 parents
• Production of attendance and punctuality reports for KS5 Heads of Year

Study Support Programme:

• Set up a register of students on the programme and monitor attendance
• Support Head of Year with target tracking
• Regularly update the Sixth Form Twitter account
• Attendance at Sixth Form meetings/and organisation of Yr13 Parents' evenings
• Provide advice and guidance for students as requested

Training

• Business Administrator Level 3
• Weekly Lakes College attendance

After the apprenticeship

Administrative Assistant.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail

About the employer

Vision

"Promoting excellence to enable all students to be happy and achieve their potential".

Aims

• To maintain the highest expectations for all our students and seek excellence in everything we do;
• To instil traditional values such as courtesy and consideration for others;
• To develop every child's talents and interests, and broaden their horizons;
• To provide outstanding academic, social, spiritual and cultural education;
• To maintain a varied and enriched curriculum to develop confident, creative, articulate and distinctive young people;
• To prepare students to be independent, resilient and life-long learners:
• To see learning through failure as essential for achieving success;
• To develop local, regional, national and international partnerships and constantly look for opportunities to extend learning;
• To encourage all parents to take an active interest in their child's education;
• To send into society level headed and compassionate young people who are a credit to themselves and the school.

Values

Excellence

• We believe that a happy and inspiring school community will lead to outstanding achievement in all areas of school life.
• Traditional values are important to us. We expect our students to be honest, respectful, considerate, caring, friendly and help others at all times.
• We believe in an inclusive community and focus on the needs of individuals. We expect students to respect the views and beliefs of others and demonstrate tolerance and understanding.

Aspiration

• Students should be excited, engaged and challenged in their learning. We recruit specialist teachers who are passionate, enthusiastic and have great imagination for communicating their subject.
• We believe taking responsibility is part of growing up. We expect students to have an outstanding attitude to learning and a desire to constantly improve.
• We believe students should question, think and take risks as part of the education process and work independently to prepare themselves fully for life after school.

Opportunity

• We expect exemplary behaviour both in and out of school. We recognise that our reputation helps open doors to opportunities for our students.
• We believe it is important to develop the whole person, building self-confidence and developing team working skills. One way we do this is through an outstanding programme of extra-curricular activities including sports, arts, clubs and societies.
• We are constantly looking to innovate. We expect students to be willing to get involved and try new things both within the school and the wider community.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Business administrator (level 3), Business and administration
• Apprenticeship level: Advanced (level 3)
• Training provider: LAKES COLLEGE - WEST CUMBRIA
• Expected duration: 1 Year 6 Months
• Hours: 31.25 hours a week. Working week: 31.25 hours per week, term time only plus both exam results days in August, exact shifts TBC.
• Start date: 25 January 2027
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £13,000 a year