Estates Administrator
Cathedral Schools Trust, Bristol, BS20 0HU17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
20 April 2026
Closing date
22 February 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 22.5 hours per week, term time only, ideally 3 days per week. Flexibility over working patterns, hours and working arrangements will be considered for the right candidate, including the option of some home working. Please state any preference within the Supporting Statement in your application form. This is a fixed-term role from 20 April 2026 until 31 August 2026. This role may be extended beyond this date, or have the option to become permanent.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 4 months
Pay scale
- NJC 8 to NJC 11 (1.0FTE £26,824 - £28,142) Pro-rata 0.53FTE £14,265 - £14,965
What skills and experience we're looking for
About Us
Amplify Education is a newly formed multi-academy trust of 22 schools in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, created through the thoughtful and planned merger of TiLA and CST. A bold voice for Bristol, we build belief in every young person, expand opportunities, nurture potential and strengthen citizenship. If you’re looking for a Trust that is ambitious, reflective and collaborative, Amplify Education could be the perfect place for you.
We invite you to join our Amplify Estates team working across all of our 22 schools.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an organised and proactive Estates Administrator to join our newly formed Amplify Education Estates team on a fixed-term basis from 20 April 2026 until 31 August 2026. This role may be extended beyond this date, or have the option to become permanent.
If you join us, a typical week in this role may see you supporting the Estates team, communicating with external suppliers and developing the administrator processes to enable the team to deliver efficient service to the Trust schools.
About You
You are likely to have gained proficiency in using the Microsoft Office suite and have experience in administration through your career or personal experience. You will be able to bring to us excellent written and verbal communication skills and a keen eye for detail. You will have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle to allow travel between our schools.
More information about the Trust, School and Role
To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
Our Amplify website will be launched soon. In the meantime, to find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust and Trust in Learning Academies (TiLA), please visit our websites: https://www.cathedralschoolstrust.org/ and https://www.tilacademies.co.uk/
Informal enquiries can be made via email to Helen Guy, Estates Manager, HGuy@tila.school
We can offer you
Continuing Professional and Leadership development
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Many of our schools are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, a number of our schools offer free onsite or nearby street parking.
Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
How to apply …
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
Please complete our application form by Midnight on Sunday 22 February 2026
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview to take place week commencing 9 March 2026
All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you
Continuing Professional and Leadership development
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Many of our schools are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, a number of our schools offer free onsite or nearby street parking.
Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
Flexible working opportunities
Flexibility over working patterns, hours and working arrangements will be considered for the right candidate, including the option of some home working. Please state any preference within the Supporting Statement in your application form.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Cathedral Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@cathedralschoolstrust.org
Head office location
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