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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    4 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

NJC Grade 2 SCP 4 (East Sussex) £23,656 FTE

Administration Officer job summary

We are seeking to recruit an Administration Officer with a passion for supporting children with special needs at The Ropemakers’ Academy.


You will be working as part of a team that are responsible for developing, improving and delivering exciting and innovative provisions for children who are not succeeding in mainstream education, and require a nurturing, positive approach in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.


We are looking for devoted, resilient staff who are able to utilise therapeutically based strategies combined with a caring, understanding and nurturing approach to classroom and behaviour management. The successful candidates will be excellent practitioners with a commitment to fulfilling the needs of pupils experiencing behavioural, emotional or learning difficulties, and social

communication difficulties. The ability to motivate pupils towards high achievement is essential. You may not have direct school experience, but may have spent time supporting children in the youth support or social care sector, or in another mentoring role. All are equally valuable in our school.


If you work hard and thrive on challenge then we would like to hear from you. As well as modern facilities, we can offer you the opportunity to enhance your career through a comprehensive CPD package, and be part of a school that takes a collaborative and caring staff approach where you will have direct involvement and influence over the development of our provision offer to our community.


Working in a special school is not always easy. Our students are vulnerable, and can present with challenging behaviours when they are distressed. However, if your first instinct is seeing beyond those behaviours, and looking to provide love, care and kindness to meet their needs head on, then we really need to hear from you. Our core values are based around providing love. allowing our pupils to flourish, providing a sense of social justice and giving them a sense of community and identity.


By joining The Ropemakers’ Academy, you are joining a unique family. Our dedication to therapeutic practice and commitment to making our children feel safe provides our learners with some genuine life chances and choices. These approaches are combined with an ethos of collaborative and innovative teaching and provision delivery.


For further information about the role, please see the attached Job Description.


Commitment to safeguarding

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

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About The Ropemakers' Academy

School type
Free School, ages 4 to 16
School size
78 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 16
Ofsted report
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The Ropemakers school is set in a wonderful, expansive and picturesque site in the Sussex town of Hailsham. The name comes from the rich rope making history associated with the town, which originated in the early nineteenth century.

Hailsham itself is a market town set just north of Eastbourne and has good road links from the A22 and A27 and is a lovely area is, and we intend to make full use of our surroundings to enrich our curriculum offer.

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