Administration Assistant
The Bridge School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B73 6UE21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
15 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 April 2026
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
- £11,351.70 - £12,281.97 Annually (Actual) 22.5 Term Time Only, potentially based over 5 days, 09:30am – 14:00pm - Cost of living pay uplift pending from 1 April 2026 (subject to agreement).
Administration Assistant job summary
We are Forward Thinking, we are Ambitious, we are Principled, we are Motivated, we are Trustworthy and we are Nurturers of Talent!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Administration Assistant to join The Bridge School.
The Bridge School is a special school for primary age children with complex special educational needs that is part of Forward Education Trust. Many of our children have profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties or present on the autistic spectrum and have communication difficulties.
All of the children who attend The Bridge School have an Education and Health Care Plan. Our school educates 90 children with complex and multiple needs. Children may have Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD), Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) or a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Some children have additional needs including visual impairment and hearing impairment and behaviour difficulties.
Children attending our school will usually require augmented and modified curriculum opportunities including an overarching mobility curriculum and a sensory experiential curriculum for our more profound learners.
The Bridge School underpins all its curriculum delivery through continually developing its communication work so that pupils may access their learning in a way personalised to their needs.
We are passionate about meeting the needs of those children with the most complex needs. Our staff provide a caring and safe learning environment and work in partnership with our parents and carers to ensure that all our children can reach their full potential
The successful candidate will have:
A good standard of general education and IT Skills, including English and Maths
Experience of working within an administrative/reception background
A dedication to our vision that all children are entitled to a first-class education
Possess a genuine belief that all children are equal and celebrates the diversity in our school communities
Excellent ICT Skills including the ability to use all Microsoft packages to word process, send emails and letters, spreadsheets, and mail merge.
All applications: All Applicants are expected to know what to do if they have concerns about a child, take on the responsibility for providing a safe environment and promoting children’s welfare, undertake regular safeguarding and child protection training and, familiarise themselves with KCSIE part 1 and local policies and procedures as directed by the trust/academy.
Competitive Benefits:
Forward Education Trust is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest quality staff. To do this, we have an Employee Value Proposition offering a range of benefits to help our staff on a personal and professional level, which includes:
Support Staff Local Government Pension - Employer Contribution
FET HUB - information all in one place, access to a range of benefits
Paid for Health Cash Plan - employee and dependent children benefit - option to add partner
Employee Questionnaire - Consultation with staff on a range of issues and ideas
Comprehensive induction and probation support and an ongoing performance management & appraisal system
Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme - free, totally confidential advice, with face-to-face consultations
Personal & professional learning & development - including FLICK online learning and other resources
Access to discounts and offers from Reward Gateway and My Perks
Occupational Health Service - accessible to support the needs of individual staff
Staff recognition - e-cards to celebrate success among colleagues
Mental Health First Aiders
Policies are developed and reviewed to support positive health & well-being: Family Friendly Working, Special Leave of Absence, Flexible Working, Menopause
Our well-being support focuses on managing accountability, workload, and emotional intelligence through professional supervision, peer mentoring, and a supportive organisational culture
Staff recognition - awards throughout the year, in line with Trust behaviours and values
A commitment to develop new ideas to show we really value what you do for our children
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Bridge School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- School size
- 90 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bridge School website
School location
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