Office Administrator
Ashdon Primary School, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 2HB35 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 4 days a week (Monday-Thursday) term time only, 26 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £15,855
What skills and experience we're looking for
Ashdon Primary School, near Saffron Walden in north-west Essex, is looking to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic Office Administrator from 1st September 2025. The post will be for 26 hours a week over 4 days - Monday - Thursday, term time only. Salary to be paid on Scale 4 Point 7 £25,584 per annum, pro rata (£15,855 actual salary).
We are looking for someone who is:
- highly organised
- excellent at multi-tasking
- friendly, calm and efficient
- an excellent communicator both verbally and in writing
- a confident user of IT systems, especially Microsoft packages
- a team player but can work independently
- flexible and has a sense of humour
We welcome and encourage visits from potential applicants. If you would like to come and see us in action and meet our Headteacher, please phone the office on 01799 584219 to make an appointment.
The closing date for applications is 31st May 2025
Interviews will take place the week beginning 9th June 2025
Although the start date for this post is 1st September, it would be very helpful if the successful applicant could spend some time at the school in the Summer term to enable a smooth handover with the current post holder.
If you would like to apply for this post, please fill in the application form and email it with a covering letter to admin@ashdon.essex.sch.uk
What the school offers its staff
Ashdon Primary School is a small, friendly village school with 55 pupils on roll currently and 14 staff. We have a supportive Governing Body and an active PTA. You can find out more about us at https://www.ashdonprimaryschool.com/
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@ashdon.essex.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ashdon Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 58 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ashdon Primary School website
- Email address
- admin@ashdon.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01799 584219
Ashdon Primary School is a Community School for four to eleven year-olds, based in North West Essex near Saffron Walden and close to the county boundaries of both Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. We are at the heart of a thriving rural community and for over 100 years have welcomed children from Ashdon, Hadstock and the surrounding villages.
We are a small school, with all the benefits that brings and our shared aim is to provide an excellent education for all our children by offering a stimulating, challenging and inclusive curriculum. We welcome and appreciate the work and support of our families, other professionals and services so that we can nurture and educate our children in a rounded way, ensuring a combination of academic, social and emotional learning.
Arranging a visit to Ashdon Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@ashdon.essex.sch.uk.
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