School Office Administrative Assistant
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
8 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
1 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
- £21,548.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary based on 37 hours per week, term-time only. The full-time equivalent salary is £25,583 - £26,403.
School Office Administrative Assistant job summary
Job Purpose
To support teaching and learning by providing high quality administrative support as part of a committed and flexible team.
Main duties
- Receive and welcome visitors and liaise with staff to organise meeting spaces.Deal with enquiries at Visitor Reception in a professional and caring manner.
- Administer the school’s detention and registration systems. Enter behaviour records onto SIMs and provide analysis and reports as required
- Maintain student records in the SIMs database
- Produce all correspondence to a high standard with due regard to style, grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Use the school’s email system and SIMS In-touch to communicate with students and parents/carers.
- Undertake general clerical duties including photocopying, filing, shredding and pigeon-holing post
Support to Pastoral Team
- Liaise with Heads of Year and Pastoral Support Officers regarding behaviour management
Other Duties:
- Attend training courses, Section and Departmental meetings and Appraisal meetings at the request of the Office Team Leader or the Head of Administration
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks as directed by the Office Team Leader or the School Manager
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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 Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 2290 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
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