Administration Assistant - Part Time

Lower Meadow Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8EE

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 May 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: £8,423.00 - £8,692.00 Annually (Actual) Term time contract - two days per week - FTE is equivalent to £24,404 - £25,183

Administration Assistant - Part Time job summary

About this Role

Lower Meadow Primary Academy is excited to offer a part-time, term-time position for an Admin Assistant. This role is crucial to our mission, directly supporting the priorities of our school and the children and families we serve. You will work on Thursdays and Fridays at our Sheffield location (S8 8EE).

Why Join Us?

Every child at Lower Meadow has the potential to achieve their goals, and you can be part of their journey. Join our supportive, hardworking, and caring team where every day is different and rewarding.

Role Responsibilities:

As an Admin Assistant, you will provide high-quality business support to ensure the smooth running of the school, aligned with the priorities of the Operations Manager. Your responsibilities will include managing student information on the school MIS.

Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience in a busy administrative role
• Is proficient with various IT systems, including word processing, spreadsheets, and databases
• Has knowledge of school systems
• Can handle information in accordance with GDPR principles, dealing with confidential and sensitive information

What We Offer:

• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A strong, caring ethos and supportive team
• The chance to make a real difference
• Enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Term-time working
• A wellbeing-focused approach that prioritises staff welfare
• Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team

Interested in Applying?

We welcome visits to our school to experience our atmosphere, ethos, and approach. Meet the children and staff who make Lower Meadow a great place to be. Please contact us to arrange a visit or to find out more.

If you are joining us from another school, academy, or trust, we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments, representing a salary increase. This can be discussed in more detail at the interview.

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to help disabled applicants demonstrate their abilities.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're ready to contribute to our dynamic team, apply today and be part of our mission to create a positive impact!

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. 

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Lower Meadow Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 304 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lower Meadow Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lower-meadow-primary-school

Lower Meadow Primary Academy is a 3-11 Academy; we sit in South Sheffield on the border with Derbyshire and chose to join Astrea Academy Trust in July 2016. We have a strong team that drive school improvement and strive for the best outcomes for all children.

The Academy is seeking to attract a talented, knowledgeable, and committed team member who can demonstrate high aspirations for all our children along with the enthusiasm and resilience to support all aspects of a child’s education. The successful candidate will have the

opportunity to work in a supportive, professional learning community that seeks excellence and play a key part in the next step of our journey towards Outstanding.

Lower Meadow Primary Academy has been on a journey of improvement over the last six years and we were pleased to be recognised as a “Good” school by Ofsted in 2019. Our emphasis is on consistently high quality teaching and learning throughout school and across all areas of the

curriculum to raise children’s outcomes and allow them to move onto secondary school fully prepared. We believe strongly in building our children’s aspirations and helping them to become good learners so they can build on their successes each year and achieve their full potential. We use the Astrea Values to help build children’s life skills and prepare them fully for secondary school. Our children behave well and enjoy coming to school. All staff are committed to providing the very best for all children. Teamwork is a strong part of our ethos, with a supportive and nurturing staff and a culture of continual improvement in all that we do.

Those we recruit can demonstrate that they share our values, have the child at the centre of everything they do, are highly motivated to work with colleagues to continuously develop their skills, pursue professional excellence and are committed to providing the highest standards consistently. If you feel that you can support our ethos, we would be delighted to receive your application.

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