Office Administrator
Lipson Vale Primary School, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 7HW2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 35 hours a week, 39 weeks a year (term time)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,037 to £19,680
What skills and experience we're looking for
Lipson Vale Primary is offering an exciting opportunity for an extremely motivated, efficient, productive and enthusiastic individual to join our busy office team. The successful candidate will enjoy working alongside others as part of a highly efficient team and be able to offer a positive, professional and friendly approach to our children, their families and daily visitors.
The post involves:
- Providing front line administrative duties like answering the phone and dealing with parental queries.
- Recording and reporting on pupil data (including taking a lead role for attendance).
- Working collaboratively with the attendance leadership team to monitor and improve attendance.
- Administration of free school meal applications and ensuring school information is maintained up-to-date.
- Coordination of the admissions processes.
- Administer and support with the organisation of medicine in school.
- Accurately maintaining the school information management system (SIMs)
- Providing information to the Local Authority and other partners in line with GDPR policies
Experience of SIMs, Microsoft programmes (including Teams and Excel) and Cashless Catering systems are preferred, but not essential. We pride ourselves on our commitment to staff training so a capable, efficient and willing learner will be welcomed.
We need someone who can demonstrate that they:
- Organised and efficient in time management
- Can work to tight deadlines independently and as a team
- Can prioritise key tasks
- Can multi-task
- Is positive and friendly
- Can work successfully with families in the interest of pupils
- Can perform within policy guidelines
More details including a job description can be found on our website, alongside the application form. If you feel you could make a difference to our school, then please get in touch.
For an informal discussion or to book onto a tour, please contact Rebekah Welch, Business Manager, on 01752 224801.
Closing Date: 29th September 2024 (midnight)
Shortlisting: 30th September 2024
Interviews: 3rd October 2024
Applications can be accessed from the school website.
What the school offers its staff
Lipson Vale Primary is offering an exciting opportunity for an extremely motivated, efficient, productive and enthusiastic individual to join our busy office team. The successful candidate will enjoy working alongside others as part of a highly efficient team and be able to offer a positive, professional and friendly approach to our children, their families and daily visitors.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of the shortlisting process, the school will undertake an online search on applicants. A DBS disclosure is required for this post.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to lipson.vale.primary.school@plymouth.gov.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lipson Vale Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 405 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lipson Vale Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lipson.vale.primary.school@plymouth.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01752224801
Lipson Vale Primary School is a very special place to learn. We believe passionately in being at the very heart of our community and ensuring that all teaching and learning meet the diverse needs of the community we serve. We are a popular school that accommodates 420 children from the Reception year through to Year 6. The school team, our wonderful pupils and our families have worked together closely over the last few years to redefine the direction of the school. As such, we decided on our guiding values and a new vision which we base all of our decision making on in school. We invest heavily in ensuring that our teaching teams are given the very best professional development which means that they can provide the very best teaching and learning in the classroom. The Lipson Vale team work incredibly hard to meet the individual needs of our learners every day and we pride ourselves on the pastoral care we offer, as well as our ‘relationship’ focused approach to supporting pupils through challenges that they face.
Arranging a visit to Lipson Vale Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lipson.vale.primary.school@plymouth.gov.uk.
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