Office Manager

Heyford Park School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5HD

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2026

• Closing date

  28 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £29,064.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE)

Office Manager job summary

Our aim at Heyford Park School is to provide the best possible education for all our students

At Heyford Park School, our mission is to provide the best possible education for all students in a nurturing and inclusive environment. We are proud to be a warm, welcoming all-through school with a strong sense of community. Our staff body is collaborative, supportive, and genuinely enjoy working together.

We are seeking an organised, proactive and dedicated Office Manager to join our school and play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of our administrative functions. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, improving systems and processes, and taking ownership of making things work well.

The Office Manager will lead and organise our team of Office Administrators, ensuring that workload is effectively coordinated and that the office provides a responsive and professional service to students, parents and staff. The role will also work closely with our Admissions Administrator and Data and Exams Officer, helping to ensure that our wider administrative processes are efficient and well coordinated.

A key aspect of the role will be responsibility for the day-to-day administration of HR and recruitment. This will include monitoring the HR inbox, responding to routine queries, coordinating recruitment and interview processes, supporting pre-employment checks and ensuring that new staff are appropriately set up and supported when they join the school. The Office Manager will work closely with the School Business Manager and Trust HR team on these areas.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a school at a dynamic point in our journey. Heyford Park School is a rapidly growing school, with increasing pupil numbers and an expanding number of forms of entry. This growth creates exciting opportunities to develop and improve the way we work. The school is also benefiting from significant investment, with two major building projects due to begin, representing over £15 million of capital investment and transforming the learning environment for our community. As part of the EPA Trust, our secondary phase is closely supported by Bartholomew School, rated Outstanding in 2024.

We are looking for someone who is highly organised, calm under pressure and able to manage competing priorities. You will need to be confident in coordinating the work of others, identifying practical ways to improve systems and processes, and dealing professionally with a wide range of people. Previous experience of working in a school or education setting would be valuable, although we would welcome applications from strong candidates with relevant administrative and management experience from other settings.

Located in the village of Upper Heyford, Heyford Park is easily accessible from Bicester, Banbury, and Oxford, serving the surrounding rural communities.

Please note that we advise applying promptly as we reserve the right to close and interview if sufficient suitable applications have been received.

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.

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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 Heyford Park School

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 3 to 19
• Education phase: All through school
• Size: 700 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Heyford Park School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heyford-park-school

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