PA to Assistant Headteacher: SENDCO and Inclusion

Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01/01/2026 or ASAP

• Closing date

  9 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 November 2025

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: £24,816.00 - £25,381.00 Annually (Actual) Band F, Range 12-17 [36 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (including 5 days term time)]

PA to Assistant Headteacher: SENDCO and Inclusion job summary

Full time 36 hours per week (based over 5 days per week), paid weeks per year 39

[to include 5 days within term time]

Start time 8.20am to 4.12pm (40-minute unpaid lunch)

Grade: SCP 12, Band F(within the range 12-17)

Starting salary (under 5 years’ service £24,816 - over 5 years’ service £25,381)

We are looking to appoint a PA/Administration Assistant to work under the supervision of the school’s Assistant Headteacher: SENDCO and Inclusion and the Assistant SENCO.

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of SEND administration work and maintain high standards of communication and professionalism at all times. You must have the confidence and experience to deal with a wide range of parents/legal guardians, outside professional agencies and other schools’ staff.

The successful candidate will be competent in managing diaries, taking minutes and maintaining student personal data on the schools Arbor and CPOMS operating systems.

Hilbre High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Level DBS, Social Media and Medical checks.

Your application will only be accepted with the accompliment of a Personal Statement for this specific role and returnable to the Headteacher, Mr John Barlow, via MyNewTerm.

Closing Date: Tuesday 9th December 2025, 9am

Interview Date: Monday 15th December 2025

School Safeguarding Statement:

Hilbre High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role is classed as regulated activity. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post, including checks with employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted will be asked to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless they are ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Any offer of employment will be conditional until satisfactory completion of all mandatory pre-employment checks. It is an offence to apply for this role if barred from engaging in regulating activity relevant to children. The Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment policies, including policy on the employment of ex-offenders, can be accessed via the school website.

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

Safeguarding requirements:

Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

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 Hilbre High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1174 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hilbre High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hilbre-high-school

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.

At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.

Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

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