School Support Assistant

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026

• Closing date

  18 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 February 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: £23,742.00 - £24,916.00 Annually (Actual) 37 hours per week Term Time plus Inset Days

School Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced, and efficient individual to join our School Support Team from April 2026.

The School Support Team provide administration support to school staff and assist with the administration of the schools trips and events programme

At Southend High School for Girls, we have high expectations and an unwavering commitment to meeting the needs of our pupils. Our values sit at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to create a safe, happy and successful environment for pupils, families, staff and the wider community. We are proud to be a positive, inclusive and supportive workplace where staff wellbeing and professional growth are prioritised.

Southend High School for Girls is an oversubscribed, outstanding selective grammar school.

If you are highly skilled, enthusiastic, ambitious, energetic, and dedicated to raising achievement, and ready for a rewarding new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and IT skills and be experienced in data entry and producing spreadsheets, with accuracy and attention to detail.

Experience of working in an educational environment would be an advantage but is not essential.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Provide administrative support to school staff in an efficient and effective manner.
• Be able to work well as part of a team and take direction from the team leader.
• Have excellent IT skills and be highly competent in using Microsoft Office applications including Word and Excel.
• Be organised and able to manage and prioritise workload, meeting deadlines set.
• Have excellent communication skills and a professional friendly manner.

We can offer you:

• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a well-established, outstanding Grammar school.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
• Access to high-quality external CPD.
• A positive, supportive staff culture with a strong family ethos.
• An environment which promotes innovation

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS 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.

About Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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