Receptionist/Administrator

Fawcett Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 9FS

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  30 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,427.00 - £26,847.00 Annually (FTE)

Receptionist/Administrator job summary

37 hours per week Monday to Friday

Local Government Pay Scale 3 pts 5 - 6 (£26,427 - £26,847 fte) pro rata, Local Government Pension Scheme

The Trumpington Federation is looking for a resourceful and energetic person to join the team that looks after our two schools, Fawcett Primary and Trumpington Meadows Primary, located in Trumpington on the southern edge of Cambridge.

Reporting to the Office Manager, you will be part of the front of house team responsible for communicating with families, visitors and the public. You will support the safeguarding of our students, ensuring only authorised persons have access to the school, and visitors, ensuring they are properly supervised and aware of how to stay safe during their visit. You will have a key role in maintaining accurate student and staff records on a range of computerised systems, including supporting the twice daily registration process. You will provide support to Senior Management team to communicate with families, other care services supporting our students and the general public. You will support the organisation of a wide range of school events.

You will have excellent communication skills, thrive on being organised and have an aptitude for working with ICT. Proficiency in Outlook and Word is essential. Prior experience of school Management Information Systems, such as Arbor, and Excel is desirable, but training will be offered. You should be able to demonstrate the flexibility to manage changing priorities and an ability to focus whilst working in a busy environment. Ideally, you will have previous experience of working in a school or similar environment.

The working hours will be 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Friday with an early finish at 3:30 pm on one day a week to be agreed. There is an expectation that the successful candidate would be able to work flexibly. A reasonable amount of paid overtime, to cover occasional absence of other team members, is a necessary part of the role.

We are well served by transport links. Both schools are only a short drive from Junction 11 of the M11 and there is ample parking on each site. Trumpington Meadows is located adjacent to the Trumpington Park & Ride and Fawcett Primary is only a short walk from the Guided Busway. Both schools are well connected to safe cycle routes and benefit from secure cycle parking. Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed; please call the school office (01223 840299) to arrange this.

Trumpington Federation is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare. All applicants will be subject to online checks prior to shortlisting and all appointments are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Safeguarding procedures form part of the induction process. A copy of the school’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available to download from the Policies section of the school’s website: www.trumpingtonfederation.co.uk. The school will require a Certificate of Good Conduct, where applicable, from the professional regulating authority in the country in which the applicant has worked. References will be applied for prior to interview.

If you would like to apply for this position, please visit the ‘Joining our Schools’ section of our website www.trumpingtonfederation.co.uk and click on the ‘Work with us’ tab. You will then be able to download an application pack and an application form.

Closing Date: 30th November 2026

Interview: 7th December 2026

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.

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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 Fawcett Primary School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 356 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Fawcett Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/fawcett-primary-school

Fawcett Primary School and Nursery is a well-established school in the heart of Trumpington. The school is named in honour of Henry Fawcett, the distinguished Victorian academic and politician.

The school was built to meet the need of families moving into the new post-war housing in the area, with a separate junior school (opened in 1949) and infant school (opened in 1950). The infant and junior schools were amalgamated in 1989.

The school has been through a period of rapid expansion and development and has grown from one to two forms of entry.
We now work alongside our sister school at Trumpington Meadows to develop the best possible educational opportunities for our students. We welcome families from the expanding Trumpington community and have a diverse and inclusive school family.

Our vision and values reflect our staff’s determination to support children and adults to grow and learn together, working in partnership with parents to ensure all children are ambitious and able to achieve their fullest potential.

We celebrate our inclusive culture and strive to provide the children with a range of fun, real-life experiences that will develop their understanding and appreciation of the world around them.

Our curriculum has been carefully designed to make the most of local opportunities, including offering the children trips and visitors to enhance and deepen their learning, whilst also being rigorous in ensuring children develop the knowledge and skills they will need to be successful at the next stage of their education.

Through our topic themes, specialist music and PE teaching, our expansion of our Forest School programme, and through extra-curricular opportunities, we strive to go beyond the National Curriculum and provide a dynamic curriculum that encourages creativity, problem-solving and a love of learning.

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