Business Administrator (Maternity Cover)
Thomas Ashton School, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 4SSThis job expired on 28 September 2026 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 September 2026 at 9am
Date listed
21 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32 hours 30 minutes per week - Term Time only (195 days)
Contract type
- Fixed term - To be confirmed - Maternity or parental leave cover
Actual salary
- £20,678 - £22,042 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
1. Welcome visitors to the organisation, ensuring health and safety and safeguarding procedures are followed, such as the signing in/out of a register, issuing badges/passes or escorting visitors as required.
2. Undertake reception duties, answering routine telephone and face-to-face enquiries, taking messages and forwarding them on to the relevant person as required.
3. Undertake front-of-house duties, ensuring meeting rooms are readily available and refreshments are provided for all meetings and training courses.
4. Respond to queries from pupils, parent/carers, staff and external organisations, and for those that cannot be resolved immediately, take messages and forward on to the most appropriate person as required.
5. Undertake word processing including letters, reports, and work which utilises other ICT packages such as databases, spreadsheets, presentations.
6. Responsible for ensuring the parents and visitors noticeboard is kept up to date with all event/training information.
7. Responsible for opening and distributing internal post and ensuring that all external post is posted at the end of the school day.
8. Provide and organise general clerical support as and when needed e.g. photocopying, filing, emailing, completing forms, dealing with mail and responding to correspondence.
9. Develop and maintain a good working relationship with governors, teachers, support staff, parents & the young people.
What the school offers its staff
- A values driven, relational culture
- High-quality CPD through the Trust’s Everyone Learning Team
- Opportunities to influence practice beyond your own school
- A supportive leadership team who believe in thoughtful, ethical accountability
- Pension scheme, Trust TOIL scheme, HSF and wellbeing benefits
Further information about the job
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Thomas Ashton School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 5 to 14
- Size
- 106 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 14
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Thomas Ashton School website
- Email address
- david.butterworth@newbridgegroup.org
Arranging a visit to Thomas Ashton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email david.butterworth@newbridgegroup.org.
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