Administrative Assistant
Zaytouna Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 8WH24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 September 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual salary £20,665-£20,990 per annum
Administrative Assistant job summary
School Administrative Officer Level 1
Required from 4th September 2025
Full time, 37 hours week, term time only
Permanent
Salary Grade B point 3-4 (FTE £24,027-£24,404 per annum)
Actual salary £20,665-£20,990 per annum
Zaytouna Primary School is seeking to appoint a friendly yet professional Administrative Assistant to support the Operations Manager to provide routine general clerical, administrative and financial support to the school. This successful applicant will be based on our front reception ready to welcome children, parents, the wider community and visitors, and will support the existing team to ensure the smooth running of the office. As a school, we take great pride in the care shown towards any visitor to school and being able to create a lasting, positive impression is key to this role.
You will:
• have general office or similar experience
• be accurate and take pride in your work
• work well as part of a team
• be literate and numerate;
• have excellent communication skills with children and adults
• have basic knowledge of first aid
In return we offer:
• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards.
• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives
• Calm and purposeful learning environments
• Friendly, polite, well-behaved children who deserve the very best
• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community
• A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school
• Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
Closing date: Monday 16th June 12 noon
Interviews: Monday 23rd June
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 Zaytouna Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Muslim, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 419 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Zaytouna Primary School website
We are an exciting and happy school community who are committed to #DoingThingsDifferently. From our curriculum to our enrichment offer, our approach to professional development to our partnerships with the local community, we’re striving for innovation and excellence. We believe that school should develop a child’s mind, body and soul. This drives every decision that we make and we’re proud that we are able to offer this entitlement to all of our children. It’s what we care passionately about. We also know that to fulfil this, we need to ensure that mental and physical health and wellbeing is at our core. For our children and our adults. You’ll see this reflected in everything that we do.
We’re proud to be a school of Islamic distinctiveness – you’ll see that our QIS offer enriches our children to be the best versions of themselves. It’s what makes our school a genuine family community. This together with our comprehensive development of our core British Values means that our children are being well supported to become informed, critical thinkers of the future.
We are ambitious and unapologetic about what we do at Zaytouna. It’s based on what we believe to be important and on the future that we want for ourselves and our children. We make sure however that we have as much fun as we can along the way!
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