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  • Start date details

    Easter 2025

  • Closing date

    16 March 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    26 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£21,933.00 - £22,630.00 Annually (Actual)

Business Administrator (maternity cover) job summary

JOB TITLE: Business Administrator (maternity cover)

BASED AT: BEST House, Shefford

SALARY/GRADE RANGE: NJC Level 2B, points 3-5 (actual £21,933 to £22,630; FTE £24,027 to £24,790 pro-rata)

HOURS: 37hrs per week, term time only (including five training days), plus 2 weeks (42 weeks a year)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and keen administrator with the desire, energy and commitment to provide maternity cover support to our Central Team. Based at our Head Office on the site of Samuel Whitbread Academy and reporting to the Trust Operations Manager, the successful candidate will be an integral part of a team who are the lynch pin of this successful Trust. We value our staff and encourage you to join us – promoting and maintaining the highest possible standards in our day to day activities so that we can concentrate on what is important – serving our children and their families.

BEST is a multi-academy trust providing exceptional education across our community of 11 schools and five nurseries. Since forming in 2016, we have grown significantly into one of the largest single employers in Central Bedfordshire. We now educate around 8,000 children across the area, from nursery age to advanced level study. It is our aim to grow the BEST in everyone, and everything we do is driven by our values, but our aims can only be achieved if we recruit, retain and develop the highest quality workforce – and we want those we employ to be valued in the workplace.

CLOSING DATE: Midnight, Sunday 16th March 2025

INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday 20th March 2025

Information about BEST can be found on the Trust website https://www.bestacademies.org.uk

We are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children's welfare and offers of employment are subject to DBS clearance and two satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Strictly no agencies.

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.

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About Bedfordshire Schools Trust Limited

Type
Multi-academy trust

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