10 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    01-09-2025 - 31.08.2026

  • Closing date

    27 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    16 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,404.00 Annually (FTE) 16837.99 Pro-rata

Administrative and Medical Assistant job summary

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

Administrative and Medical Assistant required for September 2025

Maternity Cover (12mths) Fixed Term 01.09.25-31.08.26

LL4 Pay Point 4 (FTE) £24,404.00 Annually (pro-rata) £16837.99

29.5 hrs per week

We are currently looking to appoint a flexible, enthusiastic, positive and well organised Administrative Assistant who will fit well in our busy and friendly school office, where no two days are the same, to cover a maternity leave for at least 12 months.

As a first point of contact, it will be beneficial for applicants to have experience of an office environment and it will be necessary for them to have excellent communication skills, as well as a high commitment to standards, confidentiality and efficiency.

The role is for five days a week, with hours from 8:30am to 2:00pm, Wednesday 08:30am-4:00pm

Term time ONLY.

Typical daily tasks will include:

- Undertaking reception duties including responding to telephone and face to face enquiries

- Providing clerical support, such as dealing with class registers, school lunch bookings, maintaining school records, basic typing, email, photocopying and filing

- Liaising with parents

- Assisting with pupil welfare matters and administering routine first aid and accident recording and reporting

- Supporting the co-ordinating trips and school clubs

- Maintaining and ordering school stationery along with other items from suppliers

- An excellent command of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel are essential, together with excellent administrative and organisational skills .

- A knowledge of Google Drive/Google Forms and SiMs is desirable

The safeguarding of our children is paramount therefore, appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check, pre-employment health checks and references, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2024).

This position is fixed term for 12 months, from September 2025.

Our school is well supported by our parents, the STCAT and our school’s Local Academy Committee. Our staff are friendly, hardworking and dedicated to making the educational experiences of our children. The children at Sacred Heart are diverse, happy, well behaved and eager to learn.

How to Apply:

Please feel free to contact the school office via email to discuss the role: admin@sacredheart.primaryschol.co.uk or call 01582 287480 and My New Term

Closing Date: Friday 27th June 9.00am

Interview date: Friday 04th July 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check and other pre-employment checks are required for successful applicants. Please note CVs are not accepted for this role.

Our Trust strives to be a supportive, inclusive, caring, and positive community where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We are committed to cultivating an equitable working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where every individual can fulfil their potent

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.

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About Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
Up to 420 pupils
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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