Business and HR Apprentice
Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
16 July 2026 at 7am
Date listed
6 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
- £20,974.00 Annually (Actual) Salary, National Living Wage according to age
Business and HR Apprentice job summary
Shape the future of education from behind the scenes! As a Business & HR Apprentice at our vibrant secondary school, you’ll gain hands-on experience in staff recruitment, HR and school operations. Perfect for an organised communicator, this role offers a funded qualification, mentorship, and a rewarding start to your career.
Purpose of your job to carry out a range of administrative tasks to support the School Business Manager, HR Manager and Office Manager to ensure the smooth running of the school office and departments.
Main Areas of Responsibility
To provide administrative support to the School Business Manager (and those departments reporting to them) and HR admin support to the HR Manager
To provide administrative support to the Office Manager, including reception cover, and attendance
Input data to update and maintain databases, including Arbor and SAMPeople (our MIS)
Oversee the School’s Policies ensuring a consistent House Style and formatting liaising with our Governance Professional and School Business Manager.
Uploading of Policies to the website.
Working with our Website and Social Media Manager to ensure the website is kept up to date at all times.
To provide administrative support to the Duke of Edinburgh team.
Respond to telephone calls from parents and from staff
Drafting letters/emails to parents/carers
Maintenance and archiving of computerised data and manual filing systems
To undertake morning break and/or lunch duties, supervising students in and around the school premises
Individuals have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people he/she is responsible for or comes into contact with
To ensure all tasks are carried out with due regard to Health and Safety
Comply with the requirements of GDPR and ensure confidentiality is maintained
To adhere to the school policy on equality and diversity
To undertake appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of performance management
Attendance at appropriate staff meetings, open days/evenings which may be outside of the core hours of the job
Assisting with and assigning of training through various platforms
Processing of recruitment checks
Assisting with scheduling of recruitment during interview processes
Assisting with interview days supporting panels and escorting of candidates
Please see the Job Description for further information.
In return, you will have access to our staff benefits package including:
- An annual Flex Day to be taken on a day of your choice (with an additional day granted after 4 years of service)
- Commitment to flexible working
- Free parking on site
- Free use of the school gym
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our in-house team of Mental Health First Aiders
- Buddy system for new staff
- Access to mentoring and CPD opportunities
- Regular staff socials
- Discounts with local businesses
- An opportunity to work with friendly and welcoming colleagues in a modern, aesthetically pleasing and forward-thinking environment.
At KWS, we understand the value of having a workforce that reflects and represents our multi-ethnic student body from an equality, diversity and inclusivity perspective. We therefore welcome and embrace applications from all backgrounds.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
As part of our selection and appointment process, and in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, we are required to conduct online searches on all candidates in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.
Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process, and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.
For more details about the school please visit our website and prospectus, links below
https://kwschool.co.uk/
https://kwschool.co.uk/prospectus/
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Katherine Warington School
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1113 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).
Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk
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