Personal Assistant to Headteacher & SLT Administrator

Elmgrove Primary School & Nursery, Harrow, HA3 8LU

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  24 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  29 September 2025

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: £34,206.00 Annually (FTE) £32,536 actual. Please note that the actual salary quoted is for a term time + 4-week position and would be subject to change if the number of weeks negotiated change, thereby if a term time + 3 weeks were to be negotiated then the actual salary would reduce.

Personal Assistant to Headteacher & SLT Administrator job summary

About this Role

The successful applicant will be responsible for day to day support for the Headteacher and SLT in the school, providing efficient and professional service to all stakeholders.

The successful applicant must have:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, good telephone manner, calm approach
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and high standard of written and spoken English
• The ability to manage own time effectively and demonstrate initiative including establishing priorities within own workload
• The ability to prioritise and manage issues for the Headteacher and SLT
• The ability to plan and develop systems
• The ability to work constructively as part of a team or individually, understanding school roles and responsibilities and own position within these
• A high level of competency in IT (Email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• A good standard of education i.e. at least English and Maths GCSE grade ‘C’ or equivalent

This is a great opportunity to work in a well-resourced school with dedicated professionals who enjoy providing high quality provision for all our children.

Elmgrove is a school where laughter is encouraged and all staff are valued members of the team with the simple mission of providing a rich, nurturing and high-quality learning environment for all.

Elmgrove Primary School and Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (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.

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.

About Elmgrove Primary School & Nursery

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 802 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Elmgrove Primary School & Nursery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/elmgrove-primary-school-nursery

Welcome to Elmgrove.

Close to central Harrow, our school is situated in a quiet residential area next to Kenton Park. We are fortunate to have undergone a huge transformation with a brand new school building built as part of the DFE Priority School Building Project, which we took possession of in November 2022. We are also privileged to be one of Harrow Council’s additionally resourced primary schools for children with physical disabilities, who are fully integrated across the school.

At Elmgrove, we inspire and nurture lifelong learners through effective teaching and learning whilst at the same time providing rich and truly enjoyable experiences for our children. We expect our children to achieve high standards in all that they do; children only get one chance at education and we wish to ensure that our children are confident, well prepared and well-educated citizens ready to play their part in their community. We work hard to ensure children are successful in the key areas of English and Maths however we also want them to learn and experience more than this through a varied curriculum and a range of extra-curricular activities.

We are proud to be a Gold Rights Respecting School and we are proud of our staff and children’s diverse backgrounds. We come together with an atmosphere of respect for each other. This is accomplished by: good leadership, effective management, committed staff, governors, parents and pupils working together as a team.

Our Golden Values are an important part of what makes our school special: Kindness, Respect, Responsibility and Commitment

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