School Admissions and Transport Officer

As a School Admissions and Transport Officer you will support the delivery of services offered by the School Places, Admissions and Transport Team. Initially supporting with the day to day running of the Home to School Transport Service, whilst working alongside School Admissions colleagues. Key responsibilities include:

• Taking personal responsibility for high quality customer services and a safe working environment.


• Undertaking high risk, high cost and complex processes ensuring complete accuracy and quality assurance.


• Identifying, responding, and resolving issues that arise. Making decisions based upon specific instructions, standard practices, and established procedures that generally require some interpretation.
  
  The ideal candidate for this role will have:


• Experience of supporting projects and/or teams, achieving objectives.


• Experience of working within a support environment.


• Experience of working flexibly across teams to support key projects and activities.


• Experience of analysing data and information.


• Effective interpersonal skills, working with colleagues to achieve positive outcomes.


• Effective organisational skills.


• Effective oral and written communication skills.
  
  The School Admissions and Transport Team are a small team who support families when applying for school places and support eligible families with the travel assistance to and from school.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We're keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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salary from

£24,294

contract

permanent

working hours

full time