School Business Support Administrator

St Andrew's CofE Infant School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK14 5AX

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  22nd April 2025 or sooner

• Closing date

  24 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £8,859.65 Annually (Actual) Level 1 / Grade C1 / Fixed term to 31.12.2025

School Business Support Administrator job summary

You will be the first point of contact for the school, creating an excellent first impression, working closely with the Lead Teacher at the school. No two days are the same and you will be a vital part of the staff team. As the sole administrator at the school, you will work as part of, and benefit from the support of, the wider Federation administration team at our 5 other schools.

Working hours - Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 11.30am, 15 hours per week

Plus one inset day

The successful candidate will:

• Support the vision and values of the Federation.

• Ensure confidentiality, data protection and the safeguarding of children at all times.

• Provide a high standard of administration support, adapting to the needs of the role to ensure the smooth day to day running of the school.

• Undertake reception and telephone duties, dealing with any queries as necessary.

• Receive visitors, ensuring that all necessary safeguarding and health and safety procedures are followed.

• Be confident to work unsupervised, using your own initiative, and being able to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines.

• Demonstrate that you are an organised person with good administration skills and attention to detail.

• Be able to deal with changing and conflicting deadlines and frequent interruptions to work, being flexible and willing to help in every situation. supervision of staff and allocation of work

• Communicate with parents/carers as required (including email, Parentmail and face to face).

• Organise school trips, events and clubs and manage collection of payments.

The nature of this role often requires the ability to perform under pressure, particularly during peak times in the school year. Therefore, resilience and a sense of humour are important traits we seek in our candidates. You will be interacting with pupils, parents, and a range of professionals, which necessitates excellent communication skills.

Ideal candidates should have:

• A firm working knowledge of SIMS and FMS school data and finance systems (training can be provided for the right candidate).

• Attention to detail, excellent administrative, organisational and customer service skills.

• Previous experience of working in a school office or education environment.

In return we offer:

• A positive and caring working environment.

• A friendly and supportive staff team.

• CPD opportunities.

We reserve the right to interview before the closing date should a suitable candidate apply. Therefore, we encourage early applications if you are interested in this vacancy. The Village Schools Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check and an online search will be carried out as part of our safer recruitment process.

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.

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.

About St Andrew's CofE Infant School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 15 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St Andrew's CofE Infant School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-andrew-s-cofe-infant-school-milton-keynes (opens in new tab)

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes