Office Administrator - Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)

Lime Academy Hornbeam, London, E17 5NT

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Sept 2025

• Closing date

  13 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £16,823.57 - £18,106.57 Annually (Actual) NJC Points 14-19, 21.6 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week inset)

Office Administrator - Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 9 schools over 11 locations across Luton, Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and five special schools, with 2500 pupils and over 760 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Our Office Administrator is a key member of the school’s support staff team. They are part of a team responsible for ensuring there is efficient, effective organisation and administration of school business processes, procedures, and policies. They are responsible for supporting their team to deliver the best possible service to all stakeholders to facilitate efficient and effective service and teaching and learning across the school.

The Administrative team are the main and first point of contact for visitors/callers to the school and as such are pivotal in projecting the schools positive, welcoming ethos and values. They are therefore expected to demonstrate exemplary service and a can-do approach to both internal and external customers.

For further information about the role, please review the attached Job Description. Please note this position is for 3 days per week (21.6 hours), working Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and will be a fixed term contract from September 2025 to July 2026.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Denise Daultry, School Business Manager, on hornbeamoffice@limetrust.org to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Lime Academy Hornbeam

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 283 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Academy Hornbeam website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-hornbeam

Lime Academy Hornbeam is special school split over two sites in the London Borough of Waltham Forest for children and young pupil with complex needs including learning difficulties, physical impairment, sensory impairment, ASC and SEMH aged from 2-19.

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