Receptionist/Administrator

Chestnut Grove Academy, London, SW12 8JZ

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  as soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 November 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: £29,981.00 Annually (Actual) Scale 4 point 7 £29,981 p.a.

Receptionist/Administrator job summary

Term time only + 4 weeks (42 weeks per year), 36 hours pw (8am-4pm). Scale 4: Points 7 (actual salary) £29,981 p.a.

We are looking for an experienced and professional individual, to provide an exceptional reception and administrative service to the school.

As a valued member of the support staff team, you will be based primarily at our main reception desk as part of a busy school office. The role is pivotal in ensuring visitors, students and parents are assisted in a welcoming and timely manner, and telephone enquiries are directed appropriately.

In this varied role, you will also contribute with data entry, processing of paperwork and general administrative tasks, helping to ensure our school office operations run smoothly.

Previous administration experience and GCSE Maths and English are essential.

Chestnut Grove is a high performing, 11-18, multi-cultural school in Balham, South London, with a number of awards for its inclusive approach including UNICEF Gold Status (2022). We have completed a multi-million pound building programme, which has provided staff and students with modern facilities. Our motto is a ‘Creative Learning Community’, demonstrating a commitment to providing our students with an innovative and exciting curriculum.

As the lead partner in the Wandle Learning Partnership we are able to offer exceptional opportunities for professional development.
Further information and an application pack is available from the Trust’s website: www.wandlelearningtrust.org.uk/work-with-us

CLOSING DATE: Monday 8th December, 2025, at 9am

ALL POSTS SUBJECT TO DBS CHECKS
Chestnut Grove is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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 Chestnut Grove Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1321 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chestnut Grove Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chestnut-grove-school

Chestnut Grove Academy is a high achieving, forward thinking, caring community. A tradition of academic rigour combined with creativity
characterises our ethos and we feel passionately that this is a winning combination.
We are proud of our students’ achievements. They are ambitious, talented and resilient and this has secured examination results which continue to go from strength to strength. We help them to achieve this through exceptionally high expectations and positive relationships.
We firmly believe that students achieve when they feel the genuine security of a community that supports learning and promotes social responsibility

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