People Administrator
Danetree Primary School, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9SE17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
18 December 2025
Closing date
5 January 2026 at 9:30am
Date listed
18 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- GLF Specialist (£24,474.29 - £27,607.17 - Actual)
People Administrator job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced People Administrator, who has a keen interest in people and recruitment, to join our school based regional People team.
Your opportunity
We are looking to appoint a highly skilled and adaptable People Administrator to join Danetree Primary School. While your day to day work will be rooted in the school environment, supporting staff and handling key people administrative tasks, you will also be a valued member of our regional People team. This unique role blends hands on support within the school community with collaboration across the wider network, ensuring consistency in processes while embracing the distinct culture and ways of working at each school. Led by the Head of People Operations, the People Administrator will work in collaboration with the school based team and as part of the regional team to deliver an expert service to the school.
The responsibilities include:
- Deliver high-quality HR administration across the whole of the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, contractual changes, absence management, and offboarding, with a focus on accuracy and efficiency.
- Prioritise, action, and escalate work tasks and queries to the appropriate teams, such as Heads, Employee Relations, Payroll, and HR Senior Leadership, ensuring timely resolution with follow-ups as needed.
- Ensure the recruitment and selection process strictly adheres to safer recruitment guidelines and GLF recruitment policy. Coordinate with Recruitment Partners and school leadership teams to manage shortlisting, schedule interviews, secure references, and ensure all required documentation is accurately uploaded to the recruitment system for full compliance.
- Oversee and manage the compliance process for all new starters, ensuring timely and thorough completion of pre-employment checks.
- Maintain the Single Central Record, personnel files, and training records for your assigned schools
- Acting as a first point of contact for people related queries, ensuring high levels of confidentiality.
- Being part of the admin team for the school
What we are looking for
- A good awareness and understanding of people administration, to ensure compliance with regulation and procedures
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to form rapport and build good working relationships with others
- A flexible and pro active approach with the ability to work on their own initiative
- Good time management skills and be highly organised and efficient
- A relevant HR qualification equivalent to Level 3 (Foundation Certificate in People Practice) would be advantageous, as would experience of working within a school environment, but neither are essential.
About Danetree Primary School
Danetree is a four-form entry, Ofsted rated "OUTSTANDING" School set in fantastic grounds in West Ewell, Epsom. Our forward-thinking approach and dedicated staff aim to provide the best education for our children.
As an academy within GLF Schools. we benefit from sharing outstanding resources, and support in every aspect of school life from learning and teaching to staffing and educational expertise.
We can offer you:
- The support of GLF schools and the opportunity to be part of an inspirational, growing, and dynamic organisation
- Exceptional professional development opportunities through a tailored CPD programme
- An exciting opportunity to work within a growing school, shaping the future and strategic direction
- Confident, enthusiastic, and well-behaved children who enjoy learning
- A commitment to providing children with high quality learning opportunities
Our School sits within a newly established cluster of Primary schools, overseen by a Regional Director. Along with , our cluster includes the following other schools; The Vale Primary School, Banstead Infant School, Warren Mead Infant and Junior Schools, Cuddington Croft Primary School, Danetree Primary School and Floreat Wandsworth Primary School .
This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with colleagues across this cluster, to share expertise and experience, ensuring all children in our schools receive an excellent education and reach their potential. It also provides opportunities for career progression across the cluster and gives you the chance to further your professional development.
The Details
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: GLF Specialist - £27,061 - £30,525 FTE
Actual Salary: £24,474.29 - £27,607.17
Hours: 36 hours a week Monday to Friday (41 weeks incl. INSET)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 5th January at 9.30am
Interview Date: TBC
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Danetree Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 943 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Danetree Primary School website
Danetree Primary School has gone through an exciting journey to become a four-form entry Primary school in September 2016. Recently rated by Ofsted as an 'Outstanding' school, we pride ourselves on the commitment and dedication of the entire staff body and we proudly promote our passion and desire to assist in the educational development and enhancement of each and every child within our school.
Our mission is clear; ‘Danetree is a caring school where learning is creative, challenging and inspiring; enabling all to achieve their potential.
Be part of our creative and passionate team as we plan the next step on our journey, and Grow, Learn and Flourish within GLF Schools.
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