Business Support Administrator
The Stockwood Park Academy, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 5PP8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
2 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,393.00 - £30,859.00 Annually (FTE) AS 15-18 FTE £29,393-£30,859 pro rata £26,815-£28,152
Business Support Administrator job summary
Business Support Administrator
The Stockwood Park Academy is seeking an organised and hard-working Business Support Administrator to join our friendly and dedicated administrative team. You will work with the Principal’s PA and the office manager to help provide clerical and administrative support to the school office.
The Stockwood Park Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered. You will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body, and enterprising students. If you want to grow and develop in a fast paced, dynamic, and successful Academy, come and join us at The Stockwood Park Academy!
Key Duties
To assist the Head of School’s PA and work with the administrative staff team to support the work of the Academy.
Clerical and Administrative support to the school office.
Processing correspondence and documentation and preparing communications.
Responding to telephone and other enquiries from staff and parents
Providing Admin support to the Health & Safety Lead
Liaising as necessary with staff, students, parents, professional colleagues, external agencies and the public
Providing cover on reception as required.
The successful candidate will have
Experience within an office environment.
Experience of working in a school environment and using Arbor– desirable.
Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and database management.
Minimum GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent including English and Mathematics.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish effective working relationships with all levels of staff.
Excellent organisational and administrative skills, and excellent attention to detail.
Ability to take accurate minutes.
Ability to work independently using own initiative and also able to work well as part of a team.
A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
A willingness to undertake additional training.
Job Specifics
Start date 1st September 2025
Salary AS 15-18 FTE £29,393-£30,859 dependent on experience actual pro rata salary £26,815-£28,152
Job Role Permanent, Full time, Term time +5 INSET days, plus 2 weeks, 41 weeks per yr, 37 hours per week, 8am-4pm Mon-Thu & 3:30pm Fri
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Commitment to safeguarding
Advantage Schools is committed to safeguarding and child protection at every stage of the recruitment process.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Stockwood Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1473 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Stockwood Park Academy website
Secondary Academy
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