Business Support Officer

Northgate Primary School, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1BP

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2025

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,079.00 - £20,398.00 Annually (Actual) £24,790-£25,183 Full Time Equivalent

Business Support Officer job summary

At Northgate Primary and Nursery School our vision is for children to be proud of themselves and strive to be the best that they can; to feel understood and supported to achieve success; to be safe and happy; to learn the skills to give them confidence to face the future; to know how to behave well; to be treated equally and to feel important within their school, family and the wider community. 

We are looking for a Business Support Officer to join our busy school office.  This role requires a calm, highly organised individual who is confident to interact with others and can work under pressure. Experience of working in an administrative or business support capacity within an educational setting would be advantageous.

The hours of work in this post are 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time + one week)    

The successful candidate will:

• Be consistently positive, polite and professional
• Be confident to interact professionally and form effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, including parents, pupils, staff, outside agencies and members of the public
• Have embedded strategies to manage an intensive and varied workload
• Possess, or be willing to train to acquire, strong ICT skills, including Office 365 and other software packages used by the school.
• Demonstrate high levels of organisation and attention to detail
• Be able to adhere rigorously to confidentiality and GDPR regulations.

We can offer: 

• a welcoming and caring staff team 
• a supportive team of professionals within the school and as part of Kingfisher Schools Trust  
• a range of dedicated staff wellbeing support 

 Kingfisher Schools Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits, including:

• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
• Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College
• Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice
• Shopping and leisure discounts
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
• Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Northgate Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Northgate Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northgate-primary-school-nr30-1bp (opens in new tab)

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