Business Support Officer

Lytham St Annes High School, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, FY8 4GW

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  3 July 2026 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  16 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 5 (scp 6-11) LCC EPR 12 Grade Model (£25989 - £28142)

Business Support Officer job summary

Business Support Officer

Grade 5 (SCP 6–11) | 37 hours per week | Term time plus 5 INSET days

Are you organised, proactive, and someone who takes pride in keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? Do you enjoy a varied role where your contribution makes a real difference to the day-to-day life of a school? Are you confident managing competing priorities while maintaining high standards?

If you have answered yes to these questions then we want to hear from you!

Lytham St Annes High School (LSA) is looking for a reliable and capable Business Support Officer to join our Business Support team. This is a varied and important role that sits at the heart of the school's operations, supporting teaching and learning through effective administrative and reprographic functions.

You'll work closely with colleagues across the school to ensure that printing, copying, and administrative tasks are handled efficiently and to a high standard — helping staff focus on what they do best.

This is a permanent, full-time role, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, during term time plus 5 INSET days.

A day in your new role could see you:

- Providing administrative support to the Business Support team, including reception cover, ensuring front-of-house and safeguarding standards are always upheld

- Managing the reprographics function, fulfilling printing and copying requests from staff and meeting deadlines

- Assisting staff with specialist printing or copying needs

- Maintaining equipment, troubleshooting user errors, and arranging repairs when required

- Managing stock levels of paper and consumables, including placing orders for new materials

- Monitoring machine usage and producing monthly consumption figures

Apply now and become an essential part of the team that keeps our school running smoothly every day!

Closing date: 3rd July 2026 08:00am

Interviews: 9th July 2026

Start date: 1st September 2026

Please take a little time to look at our website, which will give a flavour of our ethos and show that we care about each and every child that forms part of our community, and about every member of staff - it is this ethos that makes us 'a learning community in pursuit of excellence'.

www.lythamhigh.lancs.sch.uk

The benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Commitment to staff development

- Access to wellbeing and counselling services for you and your family

- On-site parking

- Pension scheme

- Family friendly policies to support our staff with parenting and caring responsibilities

- Be yourself; enjoy being part of a culture and community with different backgrounds, interests, faiths and lifestyles

- Staff discount eligibility for brands and stores

Our commitment to a safe and respectful environment

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to a diverse and inclusive community. We do not tolerate discrimination and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We provide equal access, services, and care regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity/expression/trans status, race, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone. This includes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment of any kind. We believe that all individuals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and we are dedicated to creating a workplace and online community free from harassment, intimidation, and discrimination. We encourage open communication, provide clear reporting mechanisms for misconduct, and conduct thorough investigations. We expect everyone interacting with us to uphold these standards.

All staff will be carefully selected using recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasise the Trust's commitment to safeguarding. All posts, including volunteers, are subject to enhanced DBS clearance. All shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of any criminal record or information that will make them unsuitable to work with children. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn should any information come to light that has not been included in the self-declaration. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from regulated activity relevant to children - anyone caught doing so will be reported to the police immediately. Please note that we reserve the right to review your online presence in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Lytham St Annes High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: Up to 1538 pupils
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lytham St Annes High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lytham-st-annes-high-school-lytham-st-annes

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