HR Administration Assistant
Aurora Foxes, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5TY27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
16 October 2025
Closing date
14 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 October 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
- £25,729.60 - £26,436.80
HR Administration Assistant job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
HR Administration Assistant – Foxes
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £25,729.60 - £26,436.80
Hours: 40 Hours per week - all year round (52 weeks)
Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.
We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
The main purpose of the role:
As our HR Administration Assistant your role will be to provide confidential administrative support to the Aurora Foxes HR team including typing letters and taking minutes for meetings as required. General tasks include filing and arranging meetings and appointments.
You will also be required to undertake reception duties and respond to telephone/ email enquiries or direct to the relevant person, welcome/ sign in visitors, diary management and taking deliveries when required. Including any other duties as reasonably required by the Principal and the Senior Leadership Team.
Key duties:
Providing confidential administrative support primarily to the HR team
To support the administration team in all areas to provide an excellent service across the Aurora Foxes.
Answer the telephone/ written correspondence in a professional and welcoming manner and to ensure all calls and messages, are forwarded to the relevant person/department accurately and promptly.
Operating a computer to access databases and using word processing applications when required.
Check the administration email inbox regularly and forward emails as appropriate.
Review and maintain stationery stock levels and raising orders, as required, following authorisation procedures, placing orders and checking items received against the orders placed.
Research and review competitively priced products to be purchased as requested by departments.
Arrange travel and hotel bookings, and arrangements, as requested following the organisation’s authorisation procedure
Assist in all areas of administration as directed by your line manager.
Support in areas of marketing to support the marketing administrator.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
Minimum Level 2 in English and Maths.
A pleasant and helpful personality.
An excellent telephone voice and a clear communicator, both verbally and written.
Previous reception experience in a similar role (desirable)
A good level of literacy and numeracy.
Working with young vulnerable adults or children (desirable).
Computer literacy – Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint and ability to use range of databases once trained
Ability to manage own time to deal with multiple tasks.
Able to work as part of a team.
Discreet, confidential and reliable.
Knowledge of GDPR
Benefits and Additional Information
What We Offer
Comprehensive training and ongoing support.
Funded qualifications.
10% discount on accommodation, hot drinks, and food at Foxes Hotel.
Life assurance and pension scheme.
Health cashback plan.
24-hour online GP access for employees and their families.
Car lease scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
Perkbox benefits platform.
Free parking during shifts.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply online and complete our application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
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 Aurora Foxes
- School type
- Other type, ages 16 to 25
- School size
- Up to 85 pupils
- Age range
- 16 to 25
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aurora Foxes website
School location
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