Administration Assistant
Alde Valley Academy, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4BG27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,800.00 - £21,464.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 3, Points 4-6 (£24,404-£25,183 FTE)
Administration Assistant job summary
Alde Valley Academy (part of Kingfisher Schools Trust) is the fastest growing secondary school in Suffolk due to the high expectations we have of our staff and students. We are ambitious for our students’ progress, attainment and personal development and strive to create an environment that promotes a keen enjoyment of learning. We are situated in Leiston, a small town not far from Saxmundham and Aldeburgh and close to the beautiful Suffolk coast.
We are looking for a full-time Admin Assistant to join our busy school office. This role requires a calm, highly organised individual who is confident to interact with others and can work under pressure. Experience of working in an administrative or business support capacity within an educational setting would be advantageous. The hours of work in this post are 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time + one week). Job share would be considered for this role.
The successful candidate will:
- Be consistently positive, polite and professional.
- Be confident to interact professionally and form effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, including parents, pupils, staff, outside agencies and members of the public
- Have embedded strategies to manage an intensive and varied workload.
- Possess, or be willing to train to acquire strong ICT skills, including Office 365 and IT systems such as Lunch Hound, ParentMail and BromCom
- Demonstrate high levels of organisation and attention to detail.
- Be able to adhere rigorously to confidentiality and GDPR regulations.
We can offer:
- a welcoming and caring staff team
- a supportive team of professionals within the school and as part of Kingfisher Schools Trust
- a range of dedicated staff wellbeing support
Kingfisher Schools Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits, including:
- Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
- Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College
- Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice
- Shopping and leisure discounts
- Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
- Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme
We encourage interested candidates to visit our school so that we can show you around and answer any questions that you may have. To arrange a visit, please contact recruitment@kingfisherschools.co.uk
Please submit your completed application as soon as possible as we may close the advert early if we receive sufficient applications. We can only accept applications which are submitted through My New Term.
Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Alde Valley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 643 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Alde Valley Academy website
School location
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