Finance Manager - Queen Edith Primary School (QED) - Cambridge
(2022-09)
Following my role as Finance Assistant, I was given the opportunity to expand my experience in the finance sector when the Finance Manager left the school in September 2022.
- Processing and paying invoices across two schools
- Managing expense claim forms
- Assisting the Business Manager with payroll
- Completing month-end and MER reports
- Creating purchase orders and placing orders on websites as requested by staff members
Finance Assistant - Queen Edith Primary School (QED) - Cambridge
(2022-03 - 2022-09)
I applied for the role of Finance Assistant in Spring 2022 and spent time assisting the Finance Manager.
- Processing invoices
- Placing orders
School Secretary - Queen Edith Primary School (QED) - Cambridge
(2020-01 - 2022-03)
- Covering the front desk and interacting with parents, children, staff members and visitors
- Ensuring visitors were allocated the correct lanyards by checking for proof of DBS certificates or accompanying non-certified visitors through the school
- Assisting in the organisation of school photographs and arranging rotas to ensure all students had their photographs taken
- Ensuring registers were completed by teachers every morning and collating the numbers to run a report for the kitchen staff to prepare meals
- Telephoning the families of any children who were absent on the day who had not contacted the school to request a reason for their child's absence and recording it on SIMS
- Keeping the website updated with policies, letters and school news
- Updating the school Twitter account and creating the half-termly school newsletter
- Assisting in taking photographs for the new school website
- Monitoring school meal accounts and writing to parents via letter using Mail Merge or Parent Mail to inform them of any arrears and chase up payments when necessary
- Ensuring parents and staff could access their accounts on Pay360 and raising any issues with Pay360 directly
Sales Assistant - Majestic Wine Stores - Petersfield, Hampshire
(2019-08 - 2019-12)
- Re-stocking the shop floor
- Ensuring the shop is kept clean & tidy
- Assisting customers with their purchases
- Delivering orders to customers' homes or venues in the work van
- Serving customers and taking payments on the till
- Keeping high levels of customer services at all times
Chef / Food Services Assistant / Hospitality Supervisor - Sodexo - Leicester Grammar School, Great Glen
(2014-01 - 2019-04)
- Liaising with teachers, staff and catering colleagues regarding bookings and refreshments
- Assisting the Catering Manager with the stock take once a month and ordering stock
- Arranging events alongside the Catering Manager such as World Book Day and building gingerbread houses
- Providing refreshments for Parents evenings, music concerts and sports fixtures
- Working in the on-site coffee shop serving parents, staff and pupils
- Prepping food as part of the kitchen team
- Serving staff and students in the refectory
- Working on the weekly rota within the team and assisting chefs as required
- Completing an apprenticeship in Food Preparation and Cooking and qualifying as a chef in 2016
- Running the large salad bar alongside another chef, catering for up to 200 customers daily
- Coming up with new recipes and planning menus for the salad bar
- Ensuring fresh food was ordered daily
- Ensuring paperwork, including allergen sheets and temperature records, were up to date
- Undertaking Health and Safety training on a regular basis
- Undertaking Food Safety and Safeguarding training
Shop Floor Assistant / Fresh Counter Assistant - Asda - Oadby
(2010-10 - 2014-12)
At Asda I started on the shop floor before moving to work on the fresh counters.
- Replenishing products and front-facing on the shop floor
- Helping customers find products
- Serving on the tills taking cash and card payments
- Dealing with food waste products and reductions
- Cooking the rotisserie chicken and other products on fresh counters
- Preparing fresh pizzas
- Serving fresh meat and fish on the relevant counters
- Keeping up high levels of self and food hygiene
Office Junior / Receptionist / Clinic Assistant - NHS - Hebden Bridge Group Practice, Hebden Bridge; Fisher Medical Centre, Skipton; Queens Road Surgery, Halifax
(2004-08 - 2007-11)
- Dealing with the mail on a daily basis- opening letters and distributing to the correct doctor/ member of staff
- Inputting data from hospital letters on to patients' files using the relevant NHS computer system
- Taking outgoing mail to the Post Office on a daily basis
- Ordering stationary from selected companies and making sure office supplies were full
- Making appointments for patients
- Taking cash payments for the private Chiropractor and Chiropodist
- Liaising with doctors, colleagues, the Practice Manager and patients
- Running the Diabetic clinic- contacting patients via telephone and letters to send reminders regarding their annual checks
- Arranging blood tests with the Phlebotomist
- Chasing up patients who had missed appointments
- Arranging the clinics with the doctor, nurse and hospital Podiatrist
- Assisting the Practice Manager with QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework)
- Communicating with hospital consultants and their secretaries via telephone or mail
- Typing up letters from GP's with audio-typing
