Business Administrator
St Luke's Church of England School, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3RD18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 38hrs a week over 39 weeks a year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade C
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Duties and Accountabilities
- Provide a full range of administrative support across the school, which may include areas such as PFI, communications, HR, reception duties, and support to the Senior Leadership Team.
- Deliver HR-focused administrative tasks, including absence management, recruitment administration, and maintaining the school’s Single Central Register.
- Provide reprographics support, including printing, copying, and preparing resources for staff.
- Maintain and update school notice boards, ensuring information is accurate, accessible, and engaging for students, staff, and visitors.
- Coordinate, administer, and facilitate external events taking place during the school day, such as immunisation clinics, school photography (e.g. Tempest), and other visiting providers.
- Respond promptly and professionally to administration queries from students, parents/carers, and visitors.
- Answer telephone calls, directing enquiries appropriately and liaising with parents/carers and external agencies.
- Provide reception cover on a rota basis as required.
- Produce reports, correspondence, and other school communications, and provide administrative support for whole-school events, such as parents’ evenings.
- Provide First Aid support as required (training will be provided).
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding procedures, actively promoting the welfare of children and best practice across the school.
- Act as a positive role model to students at all times.
What the school offers its staff
St Luke’s is an ambitious and inclusive Church of England school, dedicated to ensuring that all students live life to the full. Our vision is underpinned by five core values: showing respect; being inclusive; giving hope; achieving your best and taking responsibility.
Flexible working opportunities
We would welcome conversations about flexible working before/at interview, please contact Kerri.Moore@stlukescofe.school
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before an appointment is confirmed. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
Applying for the job
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About St Luke's Church of England School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 853 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Luke's Church of England School website
- Email address
- kerri.moore@stlukescofe.school
- Phone number
- 01392 204 600
We are incredibly proud to be part of the rapidly growing Ted Wragg Trust and believe whole heartedly in their mission to grow great people. If you join St Luke’s you will be surrounded by people who have an unapologetic mission to be better every day. We offer all staff exceptional professional development through weekly coaching which has seen us be named as one of only 13 national coaching hubs. Our staff also benefit from disruption free classrooms created by a centralised behaviour system, wider Trust leadership development programmes as well as access to exceptional leadership coaching and opportunities such as SW100.
At St Luke’s, we are relentless in our mission to support the improvement of educational outcomes in the South West and are proud to be one of the most improved schools in the region following our 2022 outcomes. As a member of our team, we expect the same aspiration and are searching for people who reflect our core values by taking responsibility to achieve their best.
If you are someone who believes in the power of education to transform the lives of all young people, regardless of background, then St Luke’s is the place for you. We will provide you with the very best training, opportunities and environment that ensures you can be brilliant every day.
Arranging a visit to St Luke's Church of England School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kerri.moore@stlukescofe.school.
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