Office Manager
Bowling Park Primary School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD5 8BTThis job expired on 13 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SO1 SCP 23-25 (Actual salary £29,095-£30,724 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will;
- Lead an Administrative Team in the delivery of admin support and services to staff, students and parents.
- Oversee the administrative office and the delivery of outstanding admin support to colleagues and senior leaders.
- Manage complex data and information while ensuring that school systems are kept up to date.
- Maintain critical school records and databases, ensuring confidentiality is maintained where necessary, but meeting the Academy’s statutory responsibilities, including to external organisations such as the DfE.
- Oversee the departmental budget, seeking best value and propriety in purchases and financial transactions to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
- Assist in managing HR and recruitment processes, including recruitment of temporary and supply members of staff.
The essential requirements for this role are;
- Minimum of GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent)
- Excellent communication skills including telephone/reception skills
- Experience of supervising or managing staff
- Experience of working in a school office environment at a senior level
- Experience using Microsoft Office and complex databases with excellent IT skills
- Fluency of the English Language at an Advanced Threshold Level
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A securely good school with high aspirations and a drive to be the best.
- A chance to make a real difference to every child’s learning.
- Enthusiastic, friendly pupils with a thirst for new learning experiences.
- Positive, supportive opportunities for your professional development.
- A friendly and highly effective team committed to school improvement and collegiate working.
Commitment to safeguarding
Exceed Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to related online content checks, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check as well as successful completion of a probationary period.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bowling Park Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 652 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bowling Park Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@exceedacademiestrust.co.uk
Bowling Park Primary School is a three-form entry school for children aged 3-11 years old, situated over two sites. One site is situated in the West Bowling area of Bradford and the second is situated within the East Bowling area of Bradford, a short distance away from one another and easily accessible. Both sites are situated within culturally diverse areas and have built excellent relationships with members of the local community, including parents of the children who attend the school.
All staff at Bowling Park Primary School/Exceed Academies Trust are committed to supporting our children and the local community, whilst going above and beyond to provide an environment for learning and personal development to overcome individual challenges and allows opportunities for children to become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.
With a current Ofsted rating of ‘Good’, Bowling Park Primary School exists to prepare and support children for their future, in a happy, healthy and safe environment. We want all our children to enjoy learning and to have the highest expectations of themselves. Our school is about preparing children for their futures and life in modern Bradford, Britain and the wider world.
In September 2022, Bowling Park Primary School joined Exceed Academies Trust, which currently consists of thirteen academies; ten primary schools, an all-through primary-to-secondary academy, an alternative provision academy and a specialist setting for children/young people who suffer from social, emotional and mental health difficulties. The Trust believes that successful schools and academies develop their own identity and individuality and are best placed to meet their own community’s needs. We believe that partnership working, the sharing of good practice and being outward facing as an organisation supports our aims and leads to outstanding results.
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