School Administrator
The Downley School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 5AL21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,625.00 - £27,770.00 Annually (FTE) Bucks Pay Range 2.11 -Range 2.15 FTE, £25,625 - £ 27,770 pro rata for hours worked. 39 Weeks per year, 37 hours per week with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break
School Administrator job summary
The Downley School are looking to recruit a dedicated, caring and welcoming School Administrator to join our support team. The successful candidate will be the first point of contact for visitors and enquiries. A warm, confident and friendly manner is essential, as well as strong organisational skills to offer administrative support to the whole school.
The benefits of joining The Downley School
The Downley School (TDS) is a great school to work at (Staff survey 2024) and over 90% of parents would recommend the school (Parent survey 2024).
Do NOT believe what you read in the March 2022 Ofsted report!
We are a much-changed school with new leadership, vision and direction. We are on a school development journey and would love for you to come and be an instrumental part to our improvement story and the next chapter for TDS.
Our curriculum offer is enhanced and enriched with the following facilities and resources:
- A bespoke Art and DT room that promotes our creative skills
- Food technology kitchen to refine our culinary skills
- An Imagination Studio that creates an immersive experience
- A drama teacher and costume cupboard to produce any given performance
- A Scandinavian yurt with log burner
- Private woods and nature areas including a pond
- Extensive fields for outdoor learning
- Well-resourced library
- Air conditioning throughout the school
- Coming soon...An additional all-weather playground, purpose indoor sport hall, and purpose dining area!
We support staff to perform at their best and progress in their careers by providing:
- Leadership opportunities - we believe in all staff contributing to school improvement
- Excellent professional development - Experienced and talented staff both from within the school and the trust support in developing staff
- IT equipment provided
- Supportive staff that are working together and are proud of the changes they are making to this unique school
- Customisable planning completed for all curriculum
- A fun, friendly and sociable team
The benefits of joining the Oxford Diocesan Bucks Schools Trust:
The ODBST family consists of 13 primary schools across Buckinghamshire, and we are delighted you are considering joining The Downley School for the next step in your career.
Being part of a Trust, makes you part of the family and this comes with many opportunities from CPD training and networking to in-house support and career development.
Whether your role is as a leader, local governing body member, teacher, learning support, school business manager or any another role at one of our schools, your contribution to our organisation and therefore to the lives and outcomes of our pupils will be very much valued.
We are committed to our staff and offer benefits which include:
- Employee Assistance Programme
- We follow Teachers Terms and Conditions
- Graded Pay Scales for Support Staff
- Extensive CPD, Coaching and Mentoring course and opportunities in-house and external.
- Networking for not just our Headteachers but our Office teams, Leaders, ECT’s, Subject leads, DSL’s and SENCO’s.
- Inspection updates
- Pension for both support and teaching staff
- Term time only working for many of our roles
- Finally, by being part of ODBST, you are becoming part of and impacting children’s futures, and we look forward to welcoming you to the team.
The Downley is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check.
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 are not accepted.
About The Downley School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 388 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Downley School website
School location
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