Administration Assistant

Orbis Education Trust, Kettering, NN15 6HE

12 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  8 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  27 August 2025

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: Orbis pay scale 7-10 (£24,310 - £25,444FTE), actual pro rata salary £20,564.29 – £21,523.08
• Additional allowances:

  Orbis pay scale 7-10 (£24,310 - £25,444FTE), actual pro rata salary £20,564.29 – £21,523.08

Administration Assistant job summary

Administration Assistant

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Working Pattern: Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 4.00pm, Friday 8.00am - 3.30pm. Additional hours may be required.

Weeks: 190 days per year (37.6 weeks of school term time plus 2 days)

Holiday: Pro rata entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays taken during periods of school closure

Salary: Orbis pay scale 7-10 (£24,310 - £25,444FTE), actual pro rata salary £20,564.29 - £21,523.08

Pension: Generous local government pension scheme from day 1 of employment

Are you an organised, adaptable, and proactive administrator looking for your next challenge?

Join Orbis Education Trust as our new Administration Assistant and become part of a supportive, collaborative team in a thriving environment.

The responsibilities of the role will range from assisting in planning and executing leadership diaries and events to supporting project management and data analysis software. The role is varied and fast-paced, so you’ll need to be adaptable and organised.

The successful candidate will be a great communicator, with excellent IT skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. The role will require someone who is confident at managing data and will need to familiarise themselves with the project management software.

Why join us:

• We invest in and support our aspirant and highly skilled staff, making it easy to access opportunities for continued professional development.
• Our safe and nurturing environment enables staff to thrive.
• We are a collaborative team working across the school and with wider Trust colleagues - sharing ideas, spreading best practice, supporting and challenging, and bringing out our very best

Ethical leadership is at the core of all decision making within the Trust. As such, staff are valued, treated with respect and afforded a diverse range of opportunities that come with professional trust. We place significant emphasis on working collegiately as a staff to share our expertise and subsequently enhance the learning experience with our students. Every member of the staff has the opportunity for professional development while working with us. With our trust growing, we are likely to have many more career development opportunities coming up in future.

To apply for this post, please follow this link: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/17528/EDV-2025-OET-86180

Please note the school cannot accept CVs.

Closing date for applications: 9am Monday, 8th September 2025. Provisional interview dates, 11th and 12th September 2025.

If this role attracts sufficient interest before closing date, we may decide to close and interview this vacancy at an earlier date, so an early application is advised. If you want more info about the role, please contact us at recruiment@orbismat.com or 01536 513063.

Orbis Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to undergo enhanced DBS clearance. The school is committed to Equal Opportunities in Employment.

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 Orbis Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orbis-education-trust

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