PA to Principal & School Business Manager

Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EW

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Hours of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8.00am – 4.00pm / Wednesday: 8.30am – 5.30pm / Friday: 8.00am – 2.30pm 37 hours per week 40 weeks per year - 38 term time weeks, plus 5 training days and 5 additional days during the holidays
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,540 - £33,143
• Actual salary: £26,060

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are excited to invite applications for the role of Personal Assistant (PA) to the Principal and School Business Manager at Lord Grey Academy. This is a fantastic opportunity to be a key support figure in our school community, offering a warm, welcoming presence while also ensuring smooth operations behind the scenes.

As the PA, you will play a vital role in supporting the Principal and School Business Manager with a range of tasks, including diary management, meeting preparation, handling correspondence and reports, note-taking, maintaining confidential filing systems, and providing hospitality when needed. Your ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and professionalism will be essential in this role.

We’re looking for someone who is flexible, organised, and capable of managing a varied and busy workload. Strong communication skills and office experience are key, along with proficiency in Microsoft applications like Word and Excel, and familiarity with Google tools such as Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Email. Experience with Bromcom would be advantageous, though training will be provided if necessary.

Above all, we seek someone who enjoys interacting with a diverse range of people, maintains a tactful and discreet approach, and sets clear, respectful boundaries while offering support to both staff and students. If you’re someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and is ready to contribute to a positive school atmosphere, we’d love to hear from you! A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website: http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/

What the school offers its staff

Tove Learning Trust

Tove Learning Trust (TLT) is a highly successful multi-academy Trust with primary, secondary and alternative provision schools across the West Midlands, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. We are a cross phase trust providing a high-quality education for over 11,500 children between the ages of 4 and 18. Within our family of schools we have four primaries, nine secondaries and two alternative provision schools.

As an employer of choice, we recognise every colleague is an individual, we value diversity, and work as a team to remove barriers to equity. We know that when you are ‘the best you’, whatever your role is with the Trust, you will transform students’ lives.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that all children achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes.

We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where children thrive on success.

You will have access to a team of school improvement directors specialising in Maths, English, Science,

Humanities, EYFS and SEND & Inclusion. Our outcomes in the vast majority of our schools exceed national expectations and many of our schools are rated Good or better by OFSTED.

Employee Benefits:

• Teacher & support staff pension schemes

• Continuous Professional development (CPD)

• Training School Alliance

• Networking opportunities

• Specsavers eyecare voucher

• Free Flu vaccine

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Medicash - Health Cash Plan:

• 24/7 GP Appointments & prescription services

• Dental treatment

• Optical care

• Physiotherapy

• Skinvision - skin health tracker

• A range of essential healthcare expenses

• Exclusive discounts on shopping & travel

The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.

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.

Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?

Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Wednesday 15th October 2025. Interviews to be held on Monday 20th October 2025.

Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Lord Grey Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1431 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Grey Academy website
• Email address: hr@lordgrey.org.uk
• Phone number: 01908 626110
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-grey-academy

Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.

Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.

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