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Administrative Assistant

Lantern Community Primary School, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2WL

This job expired on 28 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  From September 2025

• Closing date

  28 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 July 2025

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: Meridian Trust Support Staff Pay Scale (Grade 3)

Administrative Assistant job summary

Required from September 2025

This is a part-time role – 2 days per week (some flexibility with days - Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday preferred)

Hours of work: 8am – 4pm term-time only

Salary: Support Staff Grade 3 (Actual Salary £8077 per year)

We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and well organised administrative assistant. You will be part of a small and friendly office team and your role will be busy and varied. Your work will include reception duties, greeting visitors, answering emails and telephone calls, inputting attendance and school lunch orders, managing pupil records including admissions data, overseeing arrangements for school trips and after school clubs plus general office duties.

The opportunity:

• A fulfilling and rewarding role where you will be making a difference and valued as part of a team
• An opportunity to use a range of administrative skills
• Outstanding professional development opportunities for all our staff
• A part-time, term-time only position which offers more flexibility around other commitments

The ideal candidate:

• A good educational background - GCSE qualifications or above
• Experience of working in a school or office environment
• Possess outstanding communication skills and can work well in a team
• An understanding of child protection and safeguarding issues

Benefits of working for us include:

• Free on-site parking
• Eyecare vouchers
• Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free tea and coffee making facilities
• Generous sick pay and annual leave

Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.

Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk

Closing date for applications is: Monday 28th July 2025 by 9am

Interview to take place: 31st July 2025

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as an online search.

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

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

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About Lantern Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 400 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lantern Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lantern-community-primary-school

The Lantern Community Primary School is a busy and vibrant school based in the beautiful historic city of Ely and our aim is to ensure that children shine their light in each community they belong to. Our curriculum enables the children to develop their own learning and shape their own understanding as they use prior learning to embed and secure new skills and knowledge. We are fortunate at The Lantern to have excellent facilities and a modern, bright school which facilitates the children’s learning opportunities.

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