Personal Assistant to Headteacher
John Mason School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JB7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible after all the safer recruitment checks
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 April 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
- £27,515.00 - £30,042.00 Annually (Actual)
Personal Assistant to Headteacher job summary
We are looking to appoint an exceptional Headteacher’s PA to join our team. This is an exciting, challenging and varied post situated at the heart of our school.
Are you an experienced PA or senior administrator looking for a new challenge in a secondary school?
Do you want to use your excellent organisational skills at a high level, and help make a difference to the lives of our young people?
Do you have excellent communication skills, strong emotional intelligence and an ability to prioritise a busy workload?
If so, this could be the right position for you.
This roles provides vital confidential, personal and administrative support to the Headteacher. You will maintain electronic diaries, organise meetings, write correspondence and be the first point of call for anyone seeking contact with the Headteacher.
We are seeking someone with excellent communication, administrative and organisational skills who is confident, proactive and has the aptitude to work independently, and as part of a team.
John Mason School is a friendly and supportive community built on strong relationships which enable every student to thrive and develop a love of learning.
Previous experience of being a PA or senior administrator is essential and experience of working within is a school setting is desirable. However, first and foremost, we are looking for the right person to complement our existing team. Someone with the right skills, qualities and aptitude to grow in the role and with us, as we work together to realise our ambitious aims for the school.
Alongside the application form we should like a letter addressed to Mr Alastair West, Headteacher, of not more than two sides of A4, outlining:
1. How your previous skills and experience have suitably prepared you for this role
2. What you feel would be the priorities of the role.
Commitment to safeguarding
Abingdon Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check. The Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, di-versity and inclusion and welcomes applications from less well-represented groups in the school and Trust. Posts in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and all shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose information about their previous criminal convic-tions. All staff are expected to promote fundamental British values.
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 John Mason School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1043 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- John Mason School website
John Mason School is part of the Abingdon Learning Trust and is fully committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all its students and staff.
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