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Receptionist and Admin Assistant
Lift Tamworth, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 2NE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
2 October 2026 at 1:30pm
Date listed
18 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £22277 - £22629 per annum
Receptionist and Admin Assistant job summary
Are you organised, approachable and passionate about providing an excellent service? We are looking for a friendly and professional Receptionist & Admin Assistant to join our team and play a key role in the smooth day-to-day running of our school.
As one of the first people our students, families and visitors meet, you will be at the heart of our school community, providing a warm welcome alongside efficient and reliable administrative support.
About the role
As Receptionist & Admin Assistant, you will be the first point of contact for visitors, parents, carers and students. Alongside managing our busy reception, you will provide administrative support across the school, including responding to enquiries, maintaining records, supporting admissions and assisting the wider administrative and leadership teams.
You will also undertake first aid training and provide first aid support when required.
Key responsibilities
You will:
- Provide a friendly and professional welcome to students, families, visitors and colleagues.
- Manage telephone calls, emails and enquiries, directing them appropriately.
- Maintain accurate visitor, student and administrative records.
- Provide administrative and clerical support across the school.
- Support admissions, meetings, events, school trips and parents' evenings.
- Support the administration of school lunches and Free School Meals.
- Manage post, deliveries, supplies and resources.
- Provide first aid support when required following appropriate training.
- Maintain confidentiality and follow safeguarding procedures at all times.
We are looking for someone who
- Has experience in a customer-facing and office environment.
- Holds GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 or above, or equivalent.
- Has good IT and administrative skills.
- Is organised, proactive and able to prioritise effectively.
- Communicates confidently and professionally.
- Works well independently and as part of a team.
- Is adaptable and passionate about supporting children and young people.
Experience within an education or reception environment, knowledge of Google Workspace, first aid training and an awareness of safeguarding and child protection would be advantageous.
Your new school
Lift Tamworth is an inclusive and supportive secondary school at the heart of its local community. We are ambitious for every student and committed to ensuring they have a happy and successful school experience.
Our dedicated staff work together to remove barriers to learning and ensure students feel safe, supported and ready to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2025 graded the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management as Good.
Joining Lift Tamworth means becoming part of a caring and ambitious school where everyone works together to give every student the opportunity to be the best they can be.
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
This is a full-time position, working 37 hours per week on a fixed-term contract until 31 August 2027, with an immediate start.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift Tamworth
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 636 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift Tamworth website
Welcome to Lift Tamworth,
We are an inclusive, supportive school; we value and champion the diversity of our community and are ambitious for all students to have a happy, successful school career at the school.
We are a caring school and go above and beyond to make sure that we remove barriers that any student may face: all students are greeted by staff at the gate and as they enter threshold we offer equipment and uniform to any student that need them. The remarkable staff at Lift Tamworth are dedicated to ensuring that all students are safe, that they settle into the academy well and any concerns are addressed to not only support learning but also support student wellbeing and mental health.
The school has never been in such a strong position to provide the best education possible to our young people. We are fully staffed with committed, talented and enthusiastic professionals eager to deliver the very best education.
We look forward to welcoming all students into the school and will continue to develop all of our students to be the best that they can be.
If you have any further questions, please contact the school on reception@lifttamworth.org
Kind regards
Mr Jonathon Spears
Principal
Our Curriculum
Lift Tamworth is a successful, high-achieving secondary school where everyone is given the opportunity to do their best, whatever their background or ability.
Our inclusive curriculum provides opportunities for success for all our students, at all levels of ability. Extensive links with primary schools help to ease the transition process.
We are proud of our provision for children with special needs. On entry, students attainment levels are studied carefully and used to place students in teaching sets for all subjects except for PE. These sets are reviewed throughout the year and changes are made based on the students' progress, interim assessments and teacher judgements.
Student progress is monitored through informal and formal assessment in each curriculum area, and parents are kept informed through regular effort and progress checks.
The Curriculum is further strengthened by a variety of intervention/support strategies to ensure that the Curriculum is relevant and accessible for all students.
To view our curriculum across the year please click here
Our Specialism and Awards
We have achieved Enhanced Dyslexia Friendly Status. To view all our achievements please click here
Ofsted
We have rapidly improved our school and we were delighted in our 2025 inspection to have got 'Good' in all areas. To view all our Ofsted reports please click here
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
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