Junior Administration Officer - 20 hours per week Term Time + 5 days

Washacre Primary Academy, Bolton, Lancashire, BL5 2NJ

13 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  7 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.47 Hourly

Junior Administration Officer - 20 hours per week Term Time + 5 days job summary

Are you an organised, proactive individual with a passion for supporting education? Washacre Primary Academy is seeking a Junior Administration Officer to join our dedicated team and help ensure the smooth running of our school’s administrative and reception services.

As Junior Administration Officer, you will work closely with the Senior Administration Officer to support the school’s core operations. Your role will be vital in maintaining efficient systems, providing a welcoming reception service, and ensuring high-quality administrative support across the school.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering effective administrative and reception services.
• Organise and maintain school information systems.
• Support daily operations including dinner numbers, school trips, and calendar scheduling.
• Handle incoming/outgoing post and deliveries.
• Provide excellent customer service to pupils, parents, and visitors

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is confident using IT systems and software (e.g., Bromcom).
• Can manage tasks independently and as part of a team.
• Has strong organisational and communication skills.
• Is committed to safeguarding and upholding school policies.

Our Academy Trust is committed to improving the life chances of all children through education and personal development. Each child is unique. We encourage and support every child through their exciting journey within our trust equipping them with the skills they need for the future.

Our approach is based on sharing excellence within our trust, recruiting, training and retaining the highest calibre of staff who share our vision of enlightening, enriching, empowering and evolving a generation through education.

‘Enlightening, Enriching, Empowering and Evolving generations through education’

We offer a fantastic supportive place to work along with flexible work opportunities, including hybrid working, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services. 

The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practices, and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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

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.

About Washacre Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 177 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Washacre Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/washacre-primary-academy

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