Business Administrator Apprentice

Woodlands Primary Academy, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL1 4HU

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  22 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £10,411.09 Annually (Actual)

Business Administrator Apprentice job summary

Providing a welcoming first point of contact for the school and undertaking reception duties including answering routine telephone and face-to-face enquiries, taking messages and ensuring they are passed onto the relevant member of staff. Maintaining the school diary, including booking meetings and arranging visits for third parties whilst ensuring health and safety and safeguarding procedures are followed.

KEY TASKS

Reception and Customer Service

• To undertake reception duties including routine telephone and face-to-face enquiries, taking messages and ensuring they are passed onto the relevant member of staff
• Being the first point of contact for the school and welcoming visitors to the school
• Ensuring health and safety and safeguarding procedures are followed as per the school’s visitors procedure
• Respond to routine enquiries from staff, pupils and parent/carers in a timely manner
• Arranging visits for third parties including booking rooms and ensuring relevant members of staff are available

General Clerical

• Providing routine clerical support including printing, photocopying and completing routine forms
• Sorting and distributing internal and external mail
• Maintaining filing systems and pupil data, ensuring data can be efficiently retrieved when required

Administration and IT

• To undertake word processing and other IT related tasks including communications to parents and data entry
• Attendance administration including collation of registers and completion of various returns as required by the Local Authority and Department for Education

Standard Duties

• To understand the importance of inclusion, equality and diversity, both when working with pupils and with colleagues and to promote equal opportunities for all
• To uphold and promote the values and the ethos of the school
• To implement and uphold the policies, procedures and codes of practice of the school, including relating to customer care, finance, data protection, ICT, health & safety, anti-bullying and safeguarding/child protection KEY TASKS - Finance:
• To take a pro-active approach to health and safety, working with others in the school to minimise and mitigate potential hazards and risks, and actively contribute to the security of the school, e.g. challenging a stranger on the premises
• To participate and engage with workplace learning and development opportunities, subject to the school’s training plan, working to continually improve own performance and that of the team/school
• To attend and participate in relevant meetings as appropriate

To undertake any other additional duties commensurate with the grade of the post

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.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Woodlands Primary Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 292 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Woodlands Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-primary-academy-oldham

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