Primary Academy Office Manager

Laceyfields Academy, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7HJ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  24 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  9 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £5,883.00 - £6,298.00 Annually (Actual) The salary advertised is based on working term time only (39 weeks per year). The FTE salary is £33,101 - £35,433 per annum.

Primary Academy Office Manager job summary

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic school Office Manager to join our team here at Laceyfields Academy. The working hours would be Fridays 8am - 4pm; the position is on a fixed term basis initially, until 31 August 2026.

We need a professional who is committed to providing a high quality office management function in a busy primary school. The successful candidate will be responsible for the running of the school office. The successful candidate will also be required to work closely with the Trust’s School Improvement Services team on finance, HR, GDPR and estates tasks.

What we can offer you:

• A culture of trust, where all contributions are recognised and respected
• A skilled senior leadership team with a strong ethos of mutual support and challenge
• Children who engage well and want to learn
• An embedded whole trust commitment to professional development
• A skilled and experienced central service team who proactively support our academies, enabling educationalists to focus on our core purpose - teaching and learning
• A real commitment to work-life balance - we remember we are human beings first and educators second
• Great Trust benefits including: free parking, company paid healthcare, travel discounts and excellent training and development opportunities

Visits to the academy are encouraged! If you wish to arrange a visit, discover more about this exciting opportunity, need any further information or you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact us to arrange a convenient date.

For further details about the Academy and Djanogly Learning Trust, please view our careers pages on MyNewTerm

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 Laceyfields Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 82 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Laceyfields Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/laceyfields-academy

Situated on a Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire boarder our infant school joined the Djanogly Learning Trust family in January 2019.

At Laceyfields Academy we all strive to be Heroes in everything we do!

Helpful
Engaged
Resilient
Organised
Eager
Superstars!

We seek to create a happy, caring and challenging learning environment in which all members of the school community can grow in confidence and develop to their full potential through a stimulating, creative curriculum.

The School’s Aims are:
1. To value and recognise the uniqueness and achievement of all members of our school community.
2. To promote British Values and attitudes of care, tolerance, trust and respect within the school and wider locality.
3. To nurture and support all abilities, helping every child to achieve their potential in all areas of learning- intellectual, emotional, physical, social, moral, spiritual and cultural.
4. To ensure high quality teaching and learning which stimulates positive models of enquiry, reflection, and challenge.
5. To equip children with resilience and perseverance to become creative and independent thinkers in order to develop as life-long learners.

Values:
British Values taught and promoted at Laceyfields Academy are:
Respect (including respect for beliefs, faiths, cultures and the environment), Tolerance, Democracy, The Rule of Law and Individual Liberty.

We take every opportunity to actively promote these values in a variety of ways both within and beyond the taught curriculum. It is expected that all staff, pupils, parents, governors and other stakeholders in the community will also actively promote these values.

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