PA to Senior Leadership Team
Birkenhead Park School, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH43 4UY20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2026
Closing date
2 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
13 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 33 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only (39 weeks + inset days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- Grade 5 , SCP 9 – 11 - £22,296 - £23,023 actual (£28,153 - £29,071 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an opportunity to play a central role in the day to day running of The Birkenhead Park School, providing organised and professional support to our Deputy Headteachers and helping to plan and deliver key school events.
We are looking for someone who can manage competing
priorities, communicate confidently and take pride in getting
the details right. You will be trusted with confidential
information and will help ensure that key meetings, events
and administrative work run smoothly
You are highly organised, approachable and confident working with a range of people, including welcoming visitors and responding to enquiries when providing reception support.
You can plan your workload, meet deadlines and remain balance a range of responsibilities. You write clearly, pay close attention to detail and are comfortable producing documents and working with information and data. You understand the importance of discretion when handling sensitive matters.
You work well independently and as part of a team, and share our commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and the school’s values of Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness.
What the school offers its staff
The Birkenhead Park School is a school transformed.
In its latest inspection, Ofsted found that pupils’ experiences had “improved dramatically”. High expectations, strong relationships and a calm, respectful environment have changed daily life at the school.
Our students are proud to belong, and we are proud of the staff who have made that change possible. This is an exciting time to join us.
As part of The BePART Trust,
you will work with colleagues who are ambitious for every young
person and committed to building on what the school has
achieved.
You will have the chance to contribute your skills and ideas to a
school with a strong sense of purpose and a clear belief in what
its students can achieve
You will be joining a supportive school team committed to high standards and to doing the best for our students. You will build relationships across the school and have the opportunity to use your initiative in a role where your organisation, judgement and attention to detail will be valued.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Birkenhead Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject
to an enhanced DBS check. Applications will only be considered when submitted on a fully completed application form. All applicants
will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of age, sex, race or disability.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Birkenhead Park School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 731 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@birkenheadparkschool.com
- Phone number
- 0151 652 1574
The Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational secondary school for children aged 11-16 and has over 700 students on roll. It is an exciting time to join us as we are on an ambitious journey of transformation and are looking for staff who are motivated to make a real make a difference to the community we serve.
The school is very proud of its caring commitment and innovative approach to educating the community of young people in the area, with award-winning programmes designed to help students in Year 7 – 11 thrive in a high school environment and open pathways to their future.
As part of the BePART Educational Trust established by nationally leading sixth form, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, the school encourages students to raise aspirations and unlock their true potential through adopting the school values which are intrinsic to everything we do, across all staff and students – Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness. Our values shape every interaction with have and are core to our success in nurturing both academic and personal success for every student.
We have recently been awarded a Silver Award by the Teacher Development Trust Network. This follows being awarded a Runner-Up prize in Educate North Awards’ Innovative and Creative Literacy accolade, acknowledging the school-wide Literacy Programme that has proven to have a significant effect in raising students’ reading ages and all-round academic ability.
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