Administrative Assistant
Wood Farm Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 39.5 hours per week, term time only plus 5 inset days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,185 - £26,403
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a special person to join our friendly and hardworking administrative team. Reporting directly to the School Business Manager and the Head teacher, this is a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of our school and includes staffing the school reception desk, and carrying out a range of administrative duties.
You will be a confident and efficient person with good administrative skills, and you’ll be able to manage common office systems such as email, word processing, and receipt of orders and deliveries. You will often be the first person that parents or visitors speak to at the school, so you will need to have excellent communication skills, and ideally you will bring successful experience of working with the public in a busy environment – perhaps a school, or another public-facing role.
We’re very proud of the strong supportive and welcoming culture in our school, and we’re looking for someone who gets on with people, is cheerful and positive, and who thrives in a busy environment. The right person for this job will be someone who wants to work in a school environment, supporting the work of the teaching staff and administrative team, is flexible and a good learner and who has high professional standards for themselves – along with great customer service skills.
What the school offers its staff
In return we can offer the successful candidate a strong and supportive professional team and excellent training and development opportunities.
We have a large and very welcoming staff team, friendly children who come to us from a wide range of backgrounds, and we work closely with the adjoining Slade Nursery School – part of our federation of schools.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Ensuring that children are safe and well cared for is our highest priority. We work with parents and other agencies, including our Local Authority, to make sure that children are kept safe, both in school and beyond.
Staff members with designated lead responsibility undertake regular specialist training in safeguarding and child protection.
All members of staff and regular volunteers receive training in child protection, and we undertake comprehensive background checks on all adults working in the school, including an enhanced DBS check and full employment references.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wood Farm Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 400 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wood Farm Primary School website
- Email address
- sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865 762575
Housed in a beautiful set of buildings and landscaped grounds in the Headington area of Oxford, we believe that Wood Farm Primary School is a very special place to work, learn and grow as a teacher. We have over 400 pupils and children join our school from a wide variety of backgrounds, including many who join us from our federated nursery school, and others who have recently arrived in the country. We pride ourselves on the friendly, welcoming atmosphere that we have established in our large and vibrant school and the way that our children work, learn and play together.
As a teacher working in our school, whether newly qualified or more experienced, our commitment to your professional development is second to none. We have very high ambitions for our children and for our school, and we welcome staff members who are serious about being at the leading edge of our profession. Our teachers, teaching assistants, and other colleagues work closely together to deliver the very best for our children – and together to help make the ‘Wood Farm difference’.
The best way to get a sense of what our school is about is to visit us: we welcome, and recommend, visits from potential candidates and the opportunity to tell you more about our school. You will also find lots more information on our website www.woodfarmschool.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Wood Farm Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm.2589@wood-farm.oxon.sch.uk.
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