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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    11 July 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    8 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 9.25 Hours per week (Monday to Thursday)

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,656.00 per annum (pro rata £5,094.08 per annum) plus Inner London Weighting (£4,186.00 pro rata per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a talented individual to help foster a caring and supportive learning environment for our young people. Your experience of pastoral care will place our learners’ welfare at the heart of the school.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to problem solve and provide excellent customer service to our community.

You will have:

  • Experience of working with children.
  • The ability to deal with pupils in a fair, patient and firm manner.
  • The ability to liaise with both the support staff and teaching staff at the school and to work with others as a team.

What the school offers its staff

About The Olive School, Hackney

The Olive School, Hackney is a Muslim faith-based, primary school for 4 to 11 year olds, which welcomes pupils from all faiths and none. We opened in 2013 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We were graded as ‘Outstanding’ in all areas during our most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2025 – a result we’ve maintained since our first inspection in May 2015.

We have an exemplary reputation for excellence in every aspect of school life. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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.

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About The Olive School, Hackney

School type
Free School, Muslim, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
624 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
020 7683 7436

The Olive School, Hackney is a 630 place Muslim faith based primary school. The school opened in September 2013 with 90 Reception and 90 Year 1 children. It will build up its pupil numbers year on year. It has a caring, inclusive ethos and welcomes applications from parents and pupils of all faiths and none. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.

Staff offer an inspirational and life-enhancing educational experience for all children. They work tirelessly to ensure that each and every child is nurtured, inspired, challenged and supported to succeed and develop their natural gifts and talents.

The Olive School, Hackney was assessed as “outstanding” in every category at its first Ofsted inspection in May 2015.

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