Office Administrator
Barton Park Primary School, Oxford, OX3 9WN21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
4 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £26,824.00 Annually (FTE) Actual annual salary is £12,016 for 19.5 hours per week term time only plus 3 inset days
Office Administrator job summary
About this role:
This is an essential front-facing role managing daily school operations, family communications, and administrative systems.Barton Park Primary School is seeking an organised, calm, and proactive Office Administrator to join our dedicated team in our modern, purpose-built facility on a flexible 3-day term-time basis (including Fridays and INSET days).
In this varied, front-facing role, you will act as the primary point of contact for our parent community while delivering a professional administrative service that encompasses tasks such as monitoring pupil attendance, coordinating school trips, managing nursery and wrap-around care logistics, and arranging first aid care for pupils and staff. Proven experience in a busy public-facing office environment is essential, alongside a positive, respectful approach that brings order and reassurance to our emerging school community, allowing teachers and leadership to focus on pupil progress.
In return for your commitment to helping our school thrive, we offer dedicated support for your ongoing professional development—with future opportunities to gain hands-on experience in finance, premises management, payroll, and HR for those looking to progress in their career.
What skills / experience are required?
Good team player with strong interpersonal skills
Good numeracy and literacy skills (GCSE grade C/5 minimum or equivalent)
Effective use of ICT packages
Use of relevant equipment/resources eg photocopiers
Good keyboard and computer skills
Experience of working in a school is an advantage but experience of working in a busy office is essential.
What we can offer
Our school is new and growing. As our school grows, opportunities and challenges for the right people arise each year. We are looking for an individual who is excited about being part of our developing community and can bring enthusiasm and skills that will help shape our school now and in the future.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
Visits to the school are positively encouraged. If you wish to find out more about our school or this role, you are invited to contact the School Business Manager for a discussion and/or tour of the school. Please do so via our office: office@bartonparkprimary.org / 01865415800
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment for all staff, free from discrimination and harassment.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.
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 Barton Park Primary School
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 193 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Barton Park School is a new primary school, including a nursery, on the Barton Park Housing Development situated on the outskirts of the City of Oxford. Our school opened in September 2020 to children in reception and a mixed years 1 & 2 class. The school will grow over the coming years with a final capacity of 315, with a potential to expand further to 420, subject to community demand.
Our place within the heart of a new and developing community, with easy walking, cycle and bus routes, is a perfect location for families and staff alike. Our lovely new building and the fantastic facilities available on site, along with our neighbouring sports pavilion, make for a very special place for children to learn and flourish - and for teaching staff to teach.
We have high aspirations for all our children. Our curriculum is designed to provide children with high quality, rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Enquiry and creativity are central to our learning, and these principles are underpinned by a solid foundation in the key skills. We aim to build on each child’s natural curiosity and help them become enquiring, resilient and confident learners, able to communicate their ideas to both peers and adults. Quality teaching, targeted support and enriching, open-ended learning opportunities - alongside well planned indoor and outdoor environments - allow all children to develop their thinking skills, independence and individual talents.
Our six school values were chosen in collaboration with the school community: respect, kindness, equality, independence, perseverance, curiosity. It is important to us that these values reflect both emotional and intellectual growth and that they can be embraced by everyone within our diverse community.
Barton Park is committed to offering a variety of extra-curricular activities after school and developing these opportunities as we grow. Our children already enjoy access to dance, sports, art and music clubs, led by experts and have had the chance to perform on the stage at Pegasus Theatre and The Town Hall. Such experiences are key to fostering confidence and self-belief, as well as extending horizons and understanding of others.
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