Office Manager

Lime Academy Larkswood, London, E4 8ET

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  5 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 June 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: £38,201.90 - £38,201.90 Annually (Actual) NJC Point 28, 36 hours per week, 41 weeks, Term Time Only

Office Manager 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:

The Office Manager is a key member of the school’s administrative team are the main and first point of contact for the majority of visitors to the school and as such are pivotal in projecting the schools positive, welcoming ethos and values. They are therefore, expected to demonstrate exemplary customer service and a can-do approach to both internal and external customers.

Purpose of the job

1. -To lead and manage all of the administrative staff

2. -Make sure that key areas of the school performance are working at optimum levels e.g. pupil attendance; Single Central Record for visitors and contractors

Duties will include:

1. - Support and oversee administration staff with dealing with routine reception/visitor matters, ensuring that everyone receives a welcoming positive and helpful response and that messages and calls are efficiently processed;

2. - To be aware of and follow school policies and procedures for visitors in school;

3. -To use computerised management information systems and/or paper based filing systems to enter record and retrieve data;

4. -In addition to general administration duties, the post holder will provide admin support to SLT specifically around confidential or sensitive matters

5. - Produce lists/letters/ information/data as required e.g. pupils’ data;

6. -Maintain and populate the school calendar and School Website with information as provided and directed by Senior Leaders;

7. -To act as a minute taker for the Senior Leadership Team

8. -Monitor incoming emails to the School’s admin mailbox and deal with as appropriate.

9. - Support administration staff to chase and follow up outstanding debts owed by parents and report debtors to SLT;

10. -To conduct staff appraisals for those members of staff who are line managed by the post holder;

-To maintain training records for all school staff and liaise with Senior Leaders and the Head of Professional Development when train needs occur

-Administer First Aid

-Admissions, leavers and promotion of the school

-Safeguarding and maintain the Single Central Record (SCR)

-School Census and maintenance of pupil information and records

-Overlooking educational visits and resources

Please refer to the job description for further details.

Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted, therefore you may be invited for interview before the closing date.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office on Nancy Dibley/Ellie Metcalf at larkswoodschool@limetrust.org or on 0208 529 4979 to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. 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

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 Larkswood

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 585 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Academy Larkswood website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-larkswood

Lime Academy Larkswood is a three-form entry primary school in Chingford.  The age range of the pupils attending the setting is 3 to 11.

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