Admin Assistant

St Edward's CofE Primary School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY5 7JL

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  14 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £14.14 Hourly Grade 5, SCP 7

Admin Assistant job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Admin Assistant to join our school! We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication skills, both orally and written, to join our fantastic and dedicated team.

The role will be front of house, meeting and greeting visitors, answering the telephone, supporting staff throughout the school with their administration needs, as well as ordering goods and services and ensuring invoices are processed.

We are looking for someone who:

• Enjoys being part of a hardworking and committed team
• Is highly motivated and able to act on their own initiative
• Is patient, good humoured, and flexible
• Has the potential to develop
• Good ICT skills

We offer:

• A hardworking, happy, and dedicated school team
• Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Highly supportive Trust
• Support for your professional development

About St Edward's CE Primary School

We are a welcoming, inclusive, kind, happy, and successful school and maintain a strong partnership with Condover CE Primary School. Our aim is to provide an exciting, memorable, and rounded education for all pupils. Inclusivity is fundamental to this, and we see no limits to every child reaching their potential. Central to our broad and balanced curriculum are our learning values of resilience, self-motivation, collaboration, creativity, independence, and confidence.

For more information, please visit https://www.stedwards.shropshire.sch.uk/

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.

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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Edward's CofE Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 31 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Edward's CofE Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-edward-s-cofe-primary-school

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