Admin Assistant

Crondall Primary School, Farnham, Hampshire, GU10 5QG

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 August 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  21 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday 39 weeks per year (term time only)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: EHCC Pay Scale B1 to B3

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an Admin Assistant who is:

• An excellent communicator able to provide a warm, professional welcome to visitors.
• Highly effective in prioritising workload within a busy office environment.
• A fantastic team player with a keen sense of fun and a caring, flexible and friendly approach.
• Experienced in administrative support would be beneficial, including reception duties and pupil welfare.
• Proficient in keyboard skills and able to use IT packages including word processing, excel spreadsheets and presentation software.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Able to respond quickly and effectively to issues that arise. To plan, organise and prioritise to meet deadlines and use your own initiative.
• Committed to maintaining confidentiality at all times and has an understanding of data protection and safeguarding.
• Cheerful and approachable, dealing with difficult situations effectively.
• Holds GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent).
• Is a school first aider (or willing to complete training).

What the school offers its staff

At Crondall Primary, you will find:

• A welcoming school community with close liaison between home, school and the wider community.
• A supportive team of staff and governors dedicated to your professional growth.
• A nurturing, inclusive atmosphere that promotes collaboration and care, where children flourish through both learning and play.
• Enthusiastic and well-mannered children who are eager to engage and explore.
• A safe and stable environment where children are at the heart of everything we do.
• The benefits of working for the Weydon Multi Academy Trust, which we joined on March 1st, 2024. This partnership offers a proven track record of success, shared expertise and a commitment to providing the best possible education for our children and staff team.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive administrative to the school and PA support to the Headteacher, ensuring efficient management of their time and workload.
• General Administration: Update manual and computerised record/information systems, manage the school’s email inbox, organise forms, handle post and provide administrative support to staff. You will also assist with organising school events and maintain the school website.
• Attendance Administration: Monitor and maintain accurate pupil attendance records and follow up on reasons for non-attendance in line with safeguarding procedures.
• Reception: Act as the first point of contact for all visitors and enquiries, dealing with them efficiently and professionally.
• Safeguarding: Control access to the school, including visitor sign-in and ID checks and report any concerns.
• Written Communication: Write and send professional email responses, update and distribute online and offline communications and assist with admissions and marketing the school alongside the Trust.
• Finance: Enter data into finance systems, collect payments, and carry out financial administration.
  

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

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About Crondall Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 182 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Crondall Primary School website
• Email address: leadership@crondall.hants.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/crondall-primary-school-farnham

We are a happy, exciting learning community in the heart of a picturesque village. It is important to us that everyone who works here, learns here, or visits us, is made to feel welcome and valued. We have an emphasis on working hard, challenging ourselves and being independent learners whilst having fun. We place the children at the heart of everything we do.

It is our aim to provide a happy, nurturing, learning atmosphere, with close liaison between home, school, parish and the wider community. We recognise the shared responsibility we have in the all-round development of our children. We appreciate parents’ involvement in school activities, sharing children’s success and progress. We are very proud that we really are a ‘school family’.

On 1st March 2024 we joined Weydon Multi Academy Trust (WMAT). Joining WMAT will be an exciting new chapter for Crondall Primary School. The Trust and school have a proven track record of success, and are confident that it will benefit from working together and sharing expertise. The school is looking forward to this partnership with the Trust to provide the best possible education for its children and staff team.

Arranging a visit to Crondall Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email leadership@crondall.hants.sch.uk.

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