Appropriate Body Coordinator

Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT

28 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 November 2026

• Closing date

  7 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 Hours per week All Year Round
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £35,412.00 to £39,152.00 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

You will be able to provide excellent customer service, have strong verbal and written communication and communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders. A team player, who can work independently, you will be able to prioritise a busy workload to consistently meet deadlines.

You will have:

• A degree or equivalent.
• A PGCE/Qualified Teacher Status is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of carrying out administrative tasks to deadlines
• Experience of managing complex projects with multiple strands.
• Experience of using Management Information Systems.
• Excellent project management, organisational and administrative skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, including report- writing, building and maintaining relationships and ensuring the flow of information across partnerships.
• Good ICT literacy, including Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong commitment to the Trust values of ‘Service’, ‘Teamwork’, ‘Ambition’ and ‘Respect’

What the school offers its staff

It is an exciting time to join the team at Star’s Teaching School Hub Appropriate Body. You will be working for one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country, providing an Appropriate Body service to our Trust’s family of 36 schools along with the 1094 schools that sit within our Teaching School Hub Network’s regions and beyond.

The role will offer you a wide variety of tasks including liaising with schools, dealing with enquiries, managing the online registration and induction process, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment ensuring the Appropriate Body meets its statutory requirements. The role is ideal for those with administrative experience within an educational setting, a recent graduate or former teacher.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

JDPS - Appropriate Body Coordinator.pdf - 359 KB (opens in new tab)

About Star Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Star Academies website
• Email address: info@staracademies.org
• Phone number: 0330 313 9800
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/star-academies

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