Administrative Assistant
Krishna Avanti Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 6HN24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Please see JD for further information
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3, £24,338 - £25,403 per annum pro rata. Approximately £17,799 - £18,578 per annum (0.73132 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Grade 3, £24,338 - £25,403 per annum pro rata. Approximately £17,799 - £18,578 per annum (0.73132 FTE)
About us and the role
At Krishna Avanti Primary School, we believe every role makes a difference in the lives of our children and our wider community.
As our Administrative Assistant, you will help keep our school organised and welcoming by maintaining accurate records and information systems, managing reception and enquiries, and helping to plan and coordinate trips, events, and activities that enrich school life.
You will work closely with staff, pupils, families, and visitors, ensuring everyone feels valued and supported in line with our caring ethos rooted in respect, inclusivity, and safeguarding.
This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, takes pride in their work, and wants to contribute to a positive, nurturing environment where every child can thrive.
If you are ready to grow your skills while upholding our school’s vision and values, we would love to welcome you to our team.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Provide general clerical, administrative, and financial support under the guidance of senior staff, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
- Manage and maintain manual and computerised records, produce reports, and handle complex ICT tasks and submissions to external agencies.
- Organise school trips, events, and other activities, while supporting the planning and development of administrative procedures and policies.
- Supervise, train, and support other staff as needed, and provide advice and guidance to staff, pupils, and visitors.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, ensuring compliance with policies on child protection, health and safety, confidentiality, and data protection.
What are we looking for?
- High level of literacy and numeracy skills.
- Good knowledge/understanding of basic financial tasks
- Evidence of the ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing
- Ability to work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school.
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
The staff at Krishna Avanti Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities of all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
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About Krishna Avanti Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 420 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Krishna Avanti Primary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Krishna Avanti Primary School is a Hindu-faith Free School for boys and girls that opened in September 2011. We are at full capacity with 420 pupils.
The school is set in 5 acres of land, on Spencefield Lane in Leicester, in Evington Hall. The Grade 2 listed building was built for the High Sheriff of Leicester and was also once a Catholic Convent. The main house has great character with beautiful features including an extraordinary library area. It is set in tranquil grounds making this a wonderful site for an excellent learning environment for all children of any faith and background and providing a spacious learning environment both indoors and outdoors.
Krishna Avanti Primary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school that provides a warm, friendly and engaging learning environment for children from all backgrounds and walks of life. Staff and students at the school do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none.
The staff at Krishna Avanti Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.
Arranging a visit to Krishna Avanti Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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