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HR and Admin Assistant

St Luke's Church of England School, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3RD

This job expired on 13 October 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  29 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 38hrs a week over 39 weeks a year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade C

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Duties and Accountabilities

• Provide a full range of administrative support across the school, with a strong focus on HR administration, including absence management, recruitment processes, and maintaining the school’s Single Central Register.
• Support wider HR functions such as record keeping, staff communications, and ensuring compliance with employment and safeguarding requirements.
• Undertake general school administration tasks, which may include PFI, communications, reprographics (printing, copying, and preparing resources), and support to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Coordinate and administer external events during the school day, such as immunisation clinics, school photography, and other visiting providers.
• Provide professional and timely responses to queries from students, parents/carers, staff, and visitors.
• Answer telephone calls, directing enquiries appropriately and liaising with parents/carers and external agencies.
• Provide reception cover on a rota basis when required.
• Produce reports, correspondence, and other school communications, and support the organisation of whole-school events (e.g. parents’ evenings).
• Provide First Aid support as required (training will be provided).
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding procedures, actively promoting the welfare of children and best practice across the school.
• Act as a positive role model to students at all times.

What the school offers its staff

St Luke’s is an ambitious and inclusive Church of England school, dedicated to ensuring that all students live life to the full. Our vision is underpinned by five core values: showing respect; being inclusive; giving hope; achieving your best and taking responsibility.

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

The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before an appointment is confirmed. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.

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Additional documents

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St Luke's - HR and Admin Assistant_c.pdf - 1.2 MB (opens in new tab)

About St Luke's Church of England School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 870 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Luke's Church of England School website
• Email address: kerri.moore@stlukescofe.school
• Phone number: 01392 204 600
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-luke-s-church-of-england-school-exeter

We are incredibly proud to be part of the rapidly growing Ted Wragg Trust and believe whole heartedly in their mission to grow great people. If you join St Luke’s you will be surrounded by people who have an unapologetic mission to be better every day. We offer all staff exceptional professional development through weekly coaching which has seen us be named as one of only 13 national coaching hubs. Our staff also benefit from disruption free classrooms created by a centralised behaviour system, wider Trust leadership development programmes as well as access to exceptional leadership coaching and opportunities such as SW100.

At St Luke’s, we are relentless in our mission to support the improvement of educational outcomes in the South West and are proud to be one of the most improved schools in the region following our 2022 outcomes. As a member of our team, we expect the same aspiration and are searching for people who reflect our core values by taking responsibility to achieve their best.

If you are someone who believes in the power of education to transform the lives of all young people, regardless of background, then St Luke’s is the place for you. We will provide you with the very best training, opportunities and environment that ensures you can be brilliant every day.

Arranging a visit to St Luke's Church of England School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kerri.moore@stlukescofe.school.

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