12 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    3 September 2026

  • Closing date

    5 August 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    24 July 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 35 hrs per week 08.30 - 16.00 with 30min unpaid lunch break

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

£20,602.37 for 35 hours

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a well-organised, reliable and competent person to become our School Administrator at Newtown Primary School. Can you combine the skills of being organised and efficient with a positive outlook and friendly disposition? Do you enjoy working as part of a team as well as independently? Do you have experience of working within this role at another school if so we are interested in hearing from you?

The successful candidate will be dynamic and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, will understand the importance of confidentiality and discretion, will be adaptable, flexible and enjoy the variety and challenge of working in a small but busy office. They will have excellent IT skills, including competence in using Microsoft office. Bromcom and school office experience would be desirable but not essential.

Interested? If you feel you want to join a school with a supportive and highly skilled teaching and support team and if you can inspire children and enable them to reach their full potential, then please send in your application. We offer excellent opportunities and development for all our staff throughout their careers.

What the school offers its staff

The Academies for Character and Excellence have twenty Primary Schools across Devon & Somerset making up a dynamic and innovative learning organisation.

We live our mission and return to this constantly to help guide every action. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional trust, comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of collaboration, community, Integrity, equity, and of course uncompromising excellence.

We are truly collaborative, and we work together within and across our schools to ensure that all our children and members of staff achieve their potential. Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum offer allowing everyone to flourish - we translate our vision of excellence into our everyday practice. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants, and confident individuals.

We aim to serve our communities, and our schools make every effort to connect with families, local community groups, and organisations to ensure that our children and families are nurtured, supported and provided with opportunities through our schools.

Our value of equity leads us to want the very best of every child and every member of staff. The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and we are committed to tackle inequalities and overcome disadvantage and to provide bespoke opportunities for professional learning for all.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Newtown Primary School

Organisation type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
Size
128 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

School location

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