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Administration Officer

Brookside Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 4FU

This job expired on 21 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  26 August 2025

• Closing date

  21 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14,949.00 - £15,186.00 Annually (Actual) Full time salary – £24,790 - £25,183 per annum (pay award pending)

Administration Officer job summary

Administration Officer

Fixed Term Contract from 26th August 2025 until 19th December 2025

26.5 hours per week, term time only (60.30% FTE)

Monday to Thursday – 8.00am to 2.30pm

Friday – 8.00am to 12.30pm

(with 30 minutes unpaid break)

Full time salary – £24,790 - £25,183 per annum (pay award pending)

Actual salary - £14,949 - £15,186 per annum (pay award pending)

We are looking to appoint an experienced administrator to work in our friendly and busy school office. We need someone who is passionate and enthusiastic about customer care, with excellent organisational skills and the ability to work well in busy times.

The Administration Officer will provide day to day administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the school. The role will include daily validation of pupil attendance and meal registers, communication with parents regarding their child’s attendance at school, administering medication to pupils, amongst other administrative tasks. Ideally, you will have experience of working in a busy school office.

This role is very much front facing so the applicant needs to have excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with our parents and visitors.

The successful candidate will have good ICT skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office software. Prior knowledge and experience of the school’s chosen pupil database ‘Arbor’, would also be greatly advantageous.

We are also looking for someone who will be flexible, well organised, good with time management and a team player. They will also be able to prioritise their workload and be committed to working within a small team supporting colleagues when necessary.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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.

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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.

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About Brookside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 440 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Brookside Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/brookside-primary-school-leicester

Brookside is a large primary school and shares a site with Manor High School, with whom we have very close links. Brookside is part of the Oak Multi Academy Trust. There are 5 schools in the trust,
namely, Manor High School, Woodland Grange, Overdale Infants, Overdale Juniors and ourselves.
We are all like-minded schools with the same goals and interests but equally each one of us serve our own community and have our own unique identity. We are ambitious for all our pupils and work together to ensure our schools are outstanding. We are known as an innovative, creative trust, committed to working together for all our pupils.

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