Administration Assistant
Overdale Junior School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3YA9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
21st August 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £14,455.00 - £14,684.00 Annually (Actual) Full time salary - £24,790 per annum – pay award pending
Administration Assistant job summary
Administration Assistant
Permanent post required from 21st August 2025
25 hours per week - Monday to Friday 8.30am to 1.30pm, term time plus 1 week (58.31%FTE)
Full time salary - £24,790 per annum
Actual salary - £14,455 per annum – pay award pending
Overdale Junior School has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and organised Administration Assistant to join their busy Office team.
The successful applicant will have experience of working in a fast-paced office, be able to multi-task, with excellent communication and IT skills and the ability to react positively to the pressures of a busy school environment.
The main duties include:
- Dealing with pupils, parents, staff and visitors enquiries by telephone and in person
- Ensuring accurate records are kept for all pupils
- To ensure all registers are completed and no missing marks or unexplained absence remain
- Booking in/out visitors with appropriate regard for safeguarding processes
- Administration of online training courses
- Administration of safeguarding documentation
- To assist with the efficient running of the school office and undertake general administration duties as required
Overdale Junior School provides a friendly, supportive environment where all staff are valued. Pupil achievement is due to the high commitment of staff in partnership with parents and carers. We are committed to providing pupils and staff with the opportunity to grow their talents and realise their potential.
For more information, please contact Sarah Cooke (Office Manager).
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 are not accepted.
About Overdale Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 481 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Overdale Junior School website
We are situated on the southern edge of the city of Leicester in a mainly residential area. Our school campus is shared with Overdale Infant School, with which there is increasingly close liaison.
The school was opened in September 1956, with a new extension added in 2009. We have 16 mixed ability classes across Years 3 to 6 totalling around 480 pupils. Our children develop strong relationships with the teachers and peers through their learning and extracurricular activities.
We are fortunate to have a great deal of outside space at the school, including all weather playgrounds, a sports field and a wooded area and we are an established Forest School to make even more use of the green space around the school for learning opportunities.
Overdale Junior School works with children to:
-develop enquiring minds;
-teach them to reach high standards in all areas of the curriculum, according to their ability;
-be highly motivated learners;
-develop high self-esteem and self-respect;
-encourage them to extend and challenge their own self-belief;
-develop imaginative, creative and logical thinking;
-enable them to live in harmony in a diverse world;
-develop a healthy mind and body; and
-value the environment
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