Clerical Assistant
Leighton Academy, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3PP12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Negotiable
Closing date
22 September 2026 at 9am
Date listed
8 September 2026
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
- £12,676.00 Annually (Actual) Working days - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - 8.00am - 4.00pm
Clerical Assistant job summary
Location: Leighton Academy
Position: Clerical Assistant
Salary: Grade 3 - FTE £24,796.00 pro-rata per annum
Actual: £12,676.00
Contract: Permanent
The Learning Partnership along with the Principal at Leighton Academy wish to appoint a motivated, committed and highly effective Clerical Assistant to join our hard working and enthusiastic office team. The successful candidate will have good communication skills, be positive and able to work in a busy environment. The role requires the ability to work as part of a team and to strict deadlines. Excellent inter-personal skills, enthusiasm and high levels of accuracy are integral to the role and the ability to multi-task is essential. The ability to use social media for promotional purposes, manage a website and a strong working knowledge of Excel is desirable.
A professional and discreet approach when dealing with pupils, staff, and visitors to the school is required. The successful applicant will need to be able to maintain a friendly, helpful, confidential and professional attitude. Experience of working within a school office setting is essential.
Working hours will be Wednesday to Friday, 22.5 hours per week between the hours of 8.00am - 4.00pm term time only with the addition of 2 INSET days. .
About the Trust
Formed of two local trusts on 1st September 2023, The Learning Alliance and The Learning for Life Partnership, The Learning Partnership is a diverse new multi-academy trust delivering excellent educational provision for pupils in primary and secondary schools across the North-West. The Trust primarily serves the communities of Crewe, Congleton, and Knutsford, and is now the largest multi-academy trust in Cheshire.
At The Learning Partnership, we believe that there are three core facets of our mission -ambition, inclusion and opportunity. We are striving to build a community of the strongest people, inspiring a passion for education that galvanises these people to maximise their abilities, which supports all pupils to perform at their best. We believe that these core principles will create a culture that helps all our schools to improve and ensures pupil outcomes are the very best they can be.
The trust subscribes to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and places staff wellbeing at the forefront of its strategic people priorities. Our ongoing commitment in this area is reflected in our employee offer that includes:
Discounts in retail stores, entertainment, and supermarkets
Benefits schemes in affordable tech, cycle2work, gym memberships and a car scheme
Employee assistance programme providing specialist advice and guidance in a range of areas including menopause, financial management, and up to 8 counselling sessions per referral
Flexible working offered as a day 1 right of employment
Free parking
Access to high quality CPD and secondment opportunities
The Learning Partnership is a disability committed employer: applicants requiring adjustments to the application or interview process should contact Debbie at: oreillyd@leighton.cheshire.sch.uk.
The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and appropriate online searches in line with the requirements in Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023).
The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.
The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.
For further information regarding this role, please contact: oreillyd@leighton.cheshire.sch.uk
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 Leighton Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 467 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Leighton Academy website
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