Personal Assistant (PA) to the Headteacher and SLT
Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
June 2026
Closing date
11 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 February 2026
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
- £23,451.00 - £26,044.00 Annually (Actual) Level 5
Personal Assistant (PA) to the Headteacher and SLT job summary
Are you an experienced and organised administrator looking to make a real impact in a thriving special school? Woodlands Secondary School is seeking a proactive and highly professional PA to provide high-level support to our Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team.
About the role:
You’ll play a key role in supporting the Headteacher and SLT, ensuring the smooth running of leadership, governance, and statutory functions. The role includes executive support (managing diaries, correspondence, meetings, and minutes), leadership support (coordinating meetings, policy control, inspection prep), communication (drafting communications, updating the website/social media, liaising with parents, governors, and external agencies), and operational admin (elements of recruitment, HR meetings, event organisation, and staff induction).
We are looking for:
- Experience as a PA or in senior administration, ideally in a school
- Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills
- Discretion, integrity, and a positive, solution-focused attitude
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
Woodlands can offer:
- a hardworking, friendly and supportive staff team who are committed to supporting our young people
- a leadership team who take staff and student wellbeing seriously, whilst ensuring the best outcomes for young people.
- a supportive Governing Board.
Benefits of working at Woodlands Secondary School:
- Free access to Employee Assistance provided by Spectrum - this is confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
- Supportive leadership team
- Free tea and coffee
- Access to our onsite cafe, 4 days per week - sit in or take away; loyalty cards available
- Opportunities to be entered into a half-termly draw to win a cafe voucher - based on good attendance
- Access to the onsite gym
- Discounted membership rates at Active Luton
- Free eye tests and contributions towards glasses
Find out more about the school
Working in a special school is a unique and privileged opportunity for the right people.
We advise interested parties to ensure they have looked at the school website www.woodlands.luton.sch.uk and our Facebook Page - Official Woodlands Secondary School, in order to get a flavour of our school.
Application form
When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all of the points in the essential column on the person specification. Please refer to the attached document - how to complete a high quality letter of application.
Safeguarding:
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post meets the definition of ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (as amended).
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Woodlands Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Woodlands Secondary School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 263 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Woodlands Secondary School website
Woodlands is a large secondary special school located in the north of Luton. Our mission statement is to 'Empower our young people to become successful adults.'
Our students have severe or profound learning difficulties, some have additional learning needs.
We have developed and refined our ambitious curriculum offer to meet the needs of the different cohorts of learners to ensure that learning is interesting, relevant and functional.
We have great facilities on site and aim to enrich learning by accessing the community and applying learning beyond the classroom.
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