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School Admin Assistant
Lift North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, TS3 6LB7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
24 July 2026 at 11:27am
Date listed
17 July 2026
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
- £21906 - £22608 per annum
School Admin Assistant job summary
School Admin Assistant
Lift North Ormesby
James Street, Middlesbrough, TS3 6LB
United Kingdom
Salary: NJC 5-7 £21,906 - £22,608 (Actual) £25,583 - £26,403 (FTE)+ well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 26th July
Interview date: 30th July
Start date: September 2026
At Lift North Ormesby, we know that exceptional schools are built on exceptional people. While teachers inspire learning in the classroom, our administrative team keeps everything running behind the scenes, ensuring pupils, families and colleagues receive the support they need every day.
We're looking for a friendly, organised and proactive School Administrative Assistant to join our welcoming team. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, thrives in a busy environment and takes pride in delivering excellent customer service.
Every phone call answered, every visitor welcomed and every detail managed contributes to creating a positive experience for our pupils, parents and staff. If you enjoy variety, solving problems and being at the heart of school life, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing:
* Providing a welcoming, professional reception service for pupils, parents, visitors and external partners.
* Managing telephone calls, emails and day-to-day enquiries with confidence and efficiency.
* Maintaining accurate pupil and staff records and supporting key administrative systems.
* Supporting admissions, pupil enrolment and school communications.
* Coordinating meetings, school events, parents' evenings and educational visits.
* Managing school meal administration, including registers, payments and Free School Meals processes.
* Producing reports and providing administrative support to the leadership team.
* Ordering office supplies and helping ensure the school operates efficiently every day.
* Supporting safeguarding processes by maintaining confidentiality and following school procedures at all times.
We're looking for someone who:
* Has GCSE English and Maths (Grade 4/C or above) or equivalent.
* Has experience working in an administrative or customer-facing environment.
* Is organised, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities.
* Has strong IT skills and is confident using Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.
* Communicates professionally with children, families and colleagues.
* Enjoys working as part of a team while also being able to work independently.
* Is calm under pressure and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
* Shares our commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and providing the very best experience for every child.
* Experience working within a school or using Arbor or another Management Information System would be an advantage, but is not essential.
About the school:
At Lift North Ormesby, we consider ourselves a special place and everything we do is for our children and our community, which is why Ofsted recognised our Personal Development offer as 'outstanding'. We are a 1:1 iPad school, recently awarded the 'Apple Distinguished School' award, and we use technology very effectively across all of our curriculum and across the school. We are also an 'IQM Centre of Excellence' for inclusion
Please note we cannot support online interviews, all applicants must be able to attend an interview in person.
No agency support is required at this time.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people.
Who is Lift Schools?
We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 59 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.
We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.
We offer you:
* Comprehensive training: Access a wide range of developmental training to boost your career.
* Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
* Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships and travel deals.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people 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.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people 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 North Ormesby
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift North Ormesby website
Lift North Ormesby is a cohesive, hard-working team of children, parents, staff and governors which Ofsted described as 'a haven'. We strive to meet individual needs, enabling children the opportunity to grow and flourish. Success is rewarded and celebrated at every opportunity and challenge is provided to all children to encourage them to achieve their potential.
Our Curriculum
All schools have a unique identity and at Lift North Ormesby we believe that we have created an outstanding friendly, caring and supportive environment that encourages our children to fully learn and develop into well-rounded pupils ready for the challenge of the 21st century.
Our children are very happy and feel safe in school. Our exceptionally talented staff team use all their expertise and experience to extend learning, creating challenges in a broad and balanced, experience-rich curriculum.
We try to abide by some fundamentals for our curriculum: Excellence, enjoyment and enrichment.
We want to develop children who are ready for the modern world – resilient problem solvers, able to communicate effectively and work as part of a team, managing themselves and others. These are the traits of ‘Tim’; our school ambassador, star pupil and the motivational target for all of our children.
Tim encourages pupils to have a positive attitude to develop resilience and determination in preparation for becoming a confident member of the local and wider community and achieve scholastic excellence.
Having a thematic approach helps teach all subject areas in a more cohesive way and helps with conceptual understanding for our children. Teachers can decide on any topic per phase. This means they can focus on current affairs, needs in the community, gaps in knowledge/experience or just those amazing things that children are interesting in!
Ofsted
We are judged to be an overall 'good' school with 'outstanding' personal development and we were last inspected in October 2024.
WHY JOIN OUR SCHOOL?
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.
Development:
We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.
Lifestyle:
We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.
Money:
All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.
Wellbeing:
We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.
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