Office Administrator

Lime Academy Hornbeam, London, E17 5NT

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  31 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,938.68 - £31,144.40 Annually (Actual) NJC Points 14-19, 36 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week inset)

Office Administrator 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.

Overview of the role:

We’re Expanding! Lime Academy Hornbeam is recruiting for an Office Administrator.

Lime Academy Hornbeam is growing, and we are excited to be working closely with the Local Authority to create additional specialist places for children and young people with complex needs. As part of this exciting expansion, we are looking to recruit an Office Administrator.

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.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Denise Daultry, School Business Manager via emai on hornbeamoffice@limetrust.org or on 0208 503 2225/0208 527 2464 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.

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 Lime Academy Hornbeam

• School type: Academies, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 290 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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