Administrative Assistant
St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 8BT3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours per week, Term Time only.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £24,790.00 and £25,183.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
Thank you for your interest in the Administrative Assistant role at St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School. St Kentigern’s is a happy and successful school with a strong, caring Catholic ethos in the Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi Academy Trust in the Diocese of Lancaster. The whole school team is dedicated to achieving the full potential of all its children.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, professional and highly organised person to join our
friendly and supportive team. The post holder will be the first point of contact for visitors to the
school and the focal point for parent enquiries either face-to-face, by telephone or by email.
Excellent administrative, interpersonal skills and a positive disposition are essential.
You should:
• Present a professional yet welcoming and approachable persona to visitors
• Possess excellent communication skills, being able to communicate on all levels
• Deliver a high standard of service to the school community
• Prioritise workload, multi-task and keep calm under pressure
• Be proactive with the ability to work on your own initiative
• Have excellent IT skills, and a willingness to develop IT knowledge further
• Actively encourage and support colleagues
We are a one form entry Catholic Primary school. The successful candidate will contribute fully
as an integral part of the St Kentigern’s team.
St Kentigern’s Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare
of children. The posts are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced disclosure from DBS.
You do not need to be Catholic to apply for this role, we welcome applicants from every
background.
Closing date for applications: Friday 4th April 2025 - midday
Shortlisting date: Friday 4th April 2025
Interview date: Friday 11th April 2025
Post Details:
Grade: NJC pay Grade C - scale point range 5 to 6
Salary: £24,790.00 to £25,183.00 (paid pro-rata)
Contract: Fixed term for 12 months
Hours: 20 per week, Term Time only
Start Date: As soon as possible
Please refer to the application pack for further details.
What the school offers its staff
As a Catholic school, we offer our children the opportunity to grow as young people and encourage them to develop a closer relationship with God in an atmosphere of mutual love and respect. We seek to live out the values of Jesus Christ daily, promoting them by our words and deeds. Jesus told us to “Treat others as you would like to be treated”, our school motto, and this reminds us every day to go the extra mile for the children within our care.
At St. Kentigern’s, we always put children first. We have a safe, happy environment in which children can strive to do their best at everything they are given the opportunity to do. We listen carefully to our children and allow them to influence our curriculum and their learning as much as possible. We do our best to foster within each child a desire for learning and a desire to make the right choices.
We actively encourage a high level of support from our parents, local and parish community. Children get on well at school when parents feel able to support school. At St. Kentigern’s, we try to achieve this by welcoming parents into school as much as possible to things like assemblies, progress meetings, volunteering on trips, ‘stay and play’ times and PTFA events.
Finally, we are blessed with an extremely dedicated, hardworking staff team who go above and beyond, which is required so that children are treated as individuals who matter; receive the best possible education; enjoy learning at school with a creative, exciting, challenging curriculum; and have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of sporting and extra-curricular activities.
Commitment to safeguarding
BEBCMAT is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners, staff and visitors.
All posts are subject to:
● DBS
● Medical clearance
● Verification of qualifications and National Insurance number.
● Two references including a judgement about suitability to work with children.
● A member of the interview panel will be trained in implementing Child Protection procedures.
● In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, online search be carried out.
For teaching positions, barred list checks and prohibition from teaching checks will be carried out.
For leadership positions, section 128 checks will be performed.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to christine.murray@st-kentigern.blackpool.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 209 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School website
- Email address
- christine.murray@st-kentigern.blackpool.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01253 393302
St Kentigern’s is a one-form entry school close to the centre of Blackpool. We have inclusive practice and staff work hard to ensure that all pupils achieve their very best. We are a happy and hard-working school with families drawn from many ethnic backgrounds and many of our children enter the school with English as their second language. We pride ourselves on the progress made by all children after they enter our school.
In September 2022 we became an Academy and joined the Blessed Edward Bamber Multi Academy Trust. Our new Headteacher will join us close to the beginning of this exciting journey. We are already seeing the benefits to staff and pupils of being part of the MAT and look forward to even more advances as the MAT grows in the future.
We have extremely close ties with our parish. Catechists and parishioners work with the children in many ways encouraging the links to St Kentigern’s parish. The Local Governing Body is made up mainly of parishioners and parents with a wide range of skills, continuing the strong ties to the parish and local community.
Arranging a visit to St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email christine.murray@st-kentigern.blackpool.sch.uk.
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