PA to Principal
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 3DT7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 1am
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale G: £11,208 - £11,977 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£30,559 - £32,654 full time/full year equivalent)
PA to Principal job summary
Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale G: £11,208 - £11,977 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£30,559 - £32,654 full time/full year equivalent)
Part Time: 14.5 hours per week / 2 days (This role is part of a job share, with workdays on Wednesday and Friday).
Working Weeks: 42 weeks
Start Date: September 2025
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy is looking for an experienced PA to provide confidential and efficient support to the Principal. The post holder will manage and delegate appropriately the day-to-day activities of the front office.
This is an exciting, challenging role for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and progressive environment. You will have experience in a PA role, excellent communication and organisational skills, a keen eye for detail, and excellent IT skills.
Before applying, please read the attached Recruitment Pack and Job Description, for more details about the role. We ask that you read this pack carefully, especially the “Planning your application” section from page 11. This will support your application ensuring you have the opportunity to tell us about your relevant skills, experience and qualifications that relate to the job description and person specification in addition to details of your references covering the last 5 years.
The main responsibility of this role will be
- To provide confidential, efficient and effective personal assistant support to the Principal and act as an ambassador for the Principal?and Academy in all matters.
- To manage and delegate appropriately the day-to-day activities of the front office.
- To support the Principal in helping to ensure the Academy teaching and non-teaching services are delivered to a high standard, in keeping with the aims and objectives of the Trust.
- To ensure high standards of communication between the Principal, the Chief Executive Officer, Trust Central Staff, Executive Leadership Team, Governors, staff, parents, carers, pupils and all stakeholders, both internal and external.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Good level of education preferably including GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
- Sound experience of development, management and operation of organisational and administrative procedures
- Experience of problem solving and of dealing with and prioritising a wide range of day to day tasks
- Experience of dealing with confidential information
- Experience of effectively managing stakeholder diaries
- Excellent IT skills, including being skilled in the use of Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, in dealing with a wide range of visitors / stakeholders
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy is an Ofsted 'Good' school in the heart of Great Yarmouth. The school is proud to serve an immensely diverse community and are committed to continuing to raise educational standards ensuring children develop academically and socially by delivering a knowledge rich curriculum from a team who are passionate about pedagogical understanding with English and Maths at the heart of our learning.
The school also provides an extensive wider curriculum ensuring children have the knowledge, skills, and cultural capital to progress in their school career and into adult life ensuring lifelong passions and enthusiasm for children which will support their education and wellbeing. The academy has developed the foundations of a community hub within school, which will ensure children from birth - 11 years as well as parents are able to access support and develop relationships with educational professionals.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust, twice ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believe in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. We have strong networks across the Trust, with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. We are committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities for our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners.
The Inspiration Trust is a Multi Academy Trust, committed to delivering the very best educational experience for the young people of Norfolk and Suffolk, across 17 schools. We are ambitious for our schools and communities and want to create Britain’s highest performing federation of 3-19 schools and transform education in the East. Inspiration Trust specialises in transforming schools in disadvantaged areas and taking academies from failing to outstanding.
For information on what it is like to live and work in Great Yarmouth, click here. Great Yarmouth Primary Academy was last inspected by Ofsted in June 2021, with the report rating the school as Good. The report praises the academy, stating that "pupils at Great Yarmouth Primary Academy are polite, respectful and proud to come to school" and that "pupils spoken to feel safe in school."
When you join Inspiration Trust's thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.
We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.
The Trust also offers:
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
- Health Plan and Employee Assistance Programme giving access to a range of services including claim back costs for Eye Care and prescriptions and access to 24/7 virtual GP Service and mental health support (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Retail Benefits offering discounts with many shops and suppliers
- Corporate membership of the Norwich Theatre Royal
- Salary sacrifice schemes, including home technology, smartphones and healthcare plans, including Dental insurance and Gym membership discounts (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
- Free Parking (on most sites)
*Some benefits are only available following successfully passing probation
If you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, then please contact Sharon Baker, PA to Principal (sharonbaker@inspirationtrust.org).
To apply for this role please click the Apply button to complete the online application form.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Thursday 10th July 2025
Interview date: Friday 18th July 2025
Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We are an equal opportunities employer.
When you start your application, you will receive several emails from our application provider, Vacancy Filler. Please be aware that some email providers may mistakenly mark these messages as spam. To avoid missing important updates, we recommend checking your spam or junk folders regularly throughout the application process and marking these emails as safe.
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 are not accepted.
About Great Yarmouth Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 422 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Great Yarmouth Primary Academy website
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy is a 4-11 primary school, serving this busy and diverse Norfolk coastal community. We encourage our pupils to think big and aim for the highest results and greatest success at school and beyond.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust, a close-knit family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with our sister primary and secondary schools in the town.
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