Clerk to Governors

Barton Park Primary School within

The River Learning Trust, OX3 9WN

Barton Park Primary School is a vibrant, growing school committed to excellence. We are looking for an efficient, friendly, and highly organised Clerk to Governors to join our team. This is a flexible, varied, and interesting role that provides essential support to our Local Governing Body (LGB), helping us drive strategic development and maintain high standards for all our pupils.

About this role

As the Clerk, you will be crucial in ensuring the smooth and compliant operation of the LGB. Your responsibilities will include

Meeting Management: Preparing and circulating comprehensive agendas, attending meetings (including evenings), and producing accurate, professional minutes.
Procedural Expertise: Providing advice to governors on their legal and procedural duties.
Administrative Support: Maintaining essential records, including the register of Governors' business interests, monitoring membership and attendance, and providing general administrative support to the LGB.
Strategic Support: Overseeing the operational workflow and follow-up actions related to the governing body's functions.

Training is offered to new clerks and regular clerking briefings are held to support the role. Working Pattern and Compensation
This role offers exceptional flexibility, making it ideal for someone looking for a part-time position that fits around other commitments.

Total Time Commitment: An average of 3 hours per week which includes attendance at meetings (up to 14 per school year, including Full Governing Body and committee meetings) and all preparation, follow-up, and administrative duties.
Flexibility: While you must attend scheduled meetings (mostly evenings at the school, plus occasional daytime meetings), the vast majority of preparation, minute-writing, and follow-up work can be completed remotely (from home) or at school at any time that suits you.
Location Mix: A combination of home working and on-site attendance for meetings.

We are looking for a dedicated individual to help us achieve excellence. If you possess excellent administrative skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to maintain confidentiality, we encourage you to apply.

What we can offer / about our school

Barton Park School is located in the heart of the new Barton Park Housing Development on the outskirts of Oxford. Opened in September 2020, we are committed to providing a high-quality, engaging education for our children, fostering curiosity, resilience, and confidence. We are a community-focused school with strong values of respect, kindness, equality, independence, perseverance, and curiosity.

Candidates are welcome to visit the school to meet our staff and children. Please email office@bartonparkprimary.org if you would like to arrange this.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR 'WHY?' is that children and young people 'only get one go' in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible 'go' for our pupils.

OUR 'HOW?' is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our " Working in RLT " guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates . Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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