Clerk to Governors - Haylands Primary School

Job Posted: 18 June 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Ryde, Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Part time
• Salary: IWC Hay Scale 6, £25,992 to £27,268 FTE per annum pro-rata (actual salary £2,426 to £2,545) pay award
• Industries: Administration General Office

4 hours per week, term time only

Start 1st September 2025

Haylands Primary School, Bettesworth Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 3HA

Tel: 01983 563372

Email: [email protected]  

Website: www.haylands.iow.sch.uk  

Chair of Governors: Mr Bob Bullivant

Headteacher: Mrs Katrina Shaer

Haylands Primary School is a popular school community that works hard to provide the very best for its pupils and their development. The Governing Board oversees the way that the school is run, ensuring that it fulfils all statutory responsibilities, and the children get the best education possible. An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and self-reliant individual to join the school staff in the provision of professional clerking services to the Board.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing effective administrative support to the governing board, which involves preparing agendas in consultation with the Chair of Governors and Headteacher;
• Taking and writing up the minutes and distributing documentation and other information to Governors;
• Efficiently managing information and administering meetings;
• Maintaining the schedule of policies for review and approval;
• Providing advice to the Governing Board on compliance, governance, constitutional and procedural matters, which you will learn as you develop into the role.

Haylands Primary School provides a stimulating, caring and safe environment for children and their families and its staff, volunteers, and governors. Support for the post-holder will be provided by the Chair, Headteacher and the Isle of Wight Council Governor Services department. There will be excellent opportunities to develop knowledge and skills, with an expectation of attendance at training, briefings, and other network events (whether in person or virtual). The postholder will also have access to sources of self-directed learning and professional development activities, including the opportunity to achieve an accredited qualification.

Haylands Primary School and the Isle of Wight Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks. This post is classed as regulated activity (ancillary role) and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

If interested please contact [email protected] for a full job description and application form.

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Bob Bullivant, Chair of Governors via email at [email protected] or leave a message in school.

To support you in determining whether this role would be suitable, we would be happy to extend an invitation for you to visit the school. Please contact Michelle Gladdis, School Business Manager, to arrange this on 01983 563372, or by email to [email protected]

Interviews: Thursday 10th July 2025

Closing date: Monday 30th June 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Not all school staff are employed directly by the Isle of Wight Council, you can ask on application who the employer for this role will be.

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The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination, and this is supported by the following;

unacceptable behaviour policy 

employee code of conduct 

our values, culture and inclusivity.

We actively promote the diversity of our workforce, and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.

The Isle of Wight Council’s Terms & Conditions of employment are available upon request. Please contact our recruitment team via [email protected] if you would like to receive a copy.

The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

The management reporting line for this role is ultimately through the Isle of Wight Council Children’s Services directorate.

This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.