Does anyone work as a school governor's clerk

[Gardenerbeatty]

I'm taking early retirement from an admin job in a charity that has included clerking for the trust. I also have experience working in schools and attending governor's meetings.

I've seen a clerking role advertised for a local trust and am thinking that 12 meetings a year might be a little useful income and a way to stay involved a bit.

They pay a fixed amount based on an estimated 10 hours per meeting. I can't see what there is to do that will take 10 hours, but I expect they're right, so what is it?

What I mean is do you find it takes 10 hours, or once up to speed might it be possible to be more efficient?

I'm a school governor not q clerk but I have looked at clerking previously.

I'd say the workload is massively variable dependant on type of school whether it is part of a academy trust (i.e. that the clerk has some back up!) etc. Essentially a small school in a reasonably nice area, on a nice even keel, it would be easily doable in the time. However take a large secondary where there are issues such as improvement needed, exclusions, admissions appeals etc (which I'd assume/definately check would be paid as additional meetings) and you will not only need more time but also a significant time training to get your head around the specifics of the laws in that area. We have gone though a number of clerks recently because we need them to have the knowledge around specific areas.

I'm not a clerk but I'm a governor. Meetings usually take 2 hours but they can run over. The clerk usually arrives early and will have had to read the papers and do any prep (follow up on actions from previous meeting). The minutes are detailed and often run to about 10 pages so I imagine they take several hours to write up. If the clerk is employed by the MAT there may well be other duties like setting meeting dates and sending invitations and fielding queries from governors etc.

Loads of audio typing probably. You'd have to record the meeting then go back to the recording and transcribe it or make a PowerPoint out of the topics covered? That could easily take a few hours if it was a long meeting? Or maybe you'll get paid for ten but only really need to do five if you're fast and efficient.