Administrative Assistant
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 3NJ3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 June 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
- £13,501.00 - £14,159.00 Annually (Actual)
Administrative Assistant job summary
St Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy is seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to join our dedicated and successful school team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in the smooth day-to-day running of our school office.
You will come into daily contact with the parents and staff so, as well as having administrative experience, you will also possess excellent communication and customer service skills and have a friendly, outgoing manner.
This is a permanent part-time role working 23 hours per week, on a term time only basis. The working pattern would be over 5 days between the hours of 8am and 4pm (exact working pattern is negotiable)
About us
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy is a successful primary school located in Mansfield. We are an Ofsted rated Good School.
We are part of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, and we bring together the 36 Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Lincolnshire, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.
About the role
As Administrative Assistant you will:
- Have experience of working in a busy office.
- Have excellent personal, administrative, and organisational skills.
- Be able to plan and prioritise own workload, meeting set deadlines.
- Have the ability to maintain a calm, positive and professional manner at all times.
- Demonstrate accuracy and attention to detail.
- Generate excellent relationships with pupils, parents, and staff.
Why work for us?
We offer:
- A salary of £13,501 - £14,159 per annum (OLOL Band 3, SCP 6-9).
- A team of talented and highly committed staff in a supportive working environment.
- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, with employer contributions of above 20% in most cases.
- Access to first-class CPD opportunities with a specialist support staff CPD programme.
- Professional assistance through our Employee Assistance Programme– emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider.
- Staff discounts and a salary sacrifice scheme that includes a Cycle-to-work scheme.
For an informal discussion about the role and our school please contact the the school on 01623 478090. Visits to our school are warmly welcomed.
Closing date: at 9.00am, 23 June 2025
Interview date: TBC
How to Apply:
Please complete the online application form located on our vacancies page: Vacancies - Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust (ololcatholicmat.co.uk)
You do not need to be a Catholic to work for out Trust and we warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs. This includes those of all faiths, the Catholic faith and those without a faith who are supportive of the Trust’s Catholic character and Christian ethos. This diversity is fundamental to our values and enriches the lives of the students within our schools. Our Trust strives to be a supportive, inclusive, caring, and positive community where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition.
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 including online searches are required for successful applicants.
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.
About St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School is situated on the outskirts of Mansfield. Its Mission statement: ‘Sharing, Caring and Belonging’ underpins the work of our close knit school parish communities. Our school has approximately 230 pupils, from Foundation 1 to Year 6 and serves the parishes of St Patrick’s, St George’s and St Joseph’s, Boughton.
The school achieved a ‘Good’ overall grade in our latest Section 48 and OFSTED inspections (December 2013 and March 2017). We pride ourselves upon our strong relationships between all stakeholders. “Parents are highly supportive of the school. One described it as a ‘school that cares for the whole child, through its ethos and mission statement.” (OFSTED March 2017). Religious Education is at the heart of all we do and pupils are articulate and proud in expressing their faith.
Parents and carers, families, Governors, pupils and staff work together to continually improve our learning. Pupils achieve consistently high in all Key Stage areas and show confidence, resilience and a deep sense of pride in their school as part of our school parish community.
Our dedicated Governors and staff are passionate about providing a fun, diverse, broad curriculum for the development of the whole child. The school provides an enriched Arts, Music and Sports curriculum, with very active participants who are enthusiastic, happy learners. in expressing their faith.
St Patrick’s provides a family environment for all where everyone is valued as a child from God and all are united in their love of God.
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