Senior Admin Officer
St Bede Academy, Bolton, Lancashire, BL3 3LJ20 days remaining to apply
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
14 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13.05 - £13.87 Hourly
Senior Admin Officer job summary
Are you an experienced administrator with a passion for organisation, leadership, and making a real difference in a school community?
We are seeking a Senior Admin Officer to lead the daily operations of our busy school office.
Reporting directly to the Headteacher, you will play a key role in supporting the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and ensuring the smooth running of administrative processes across the school.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and manage all school admissions, including Nursery and Reception.
- Supervise and support administrative staff, including conducting appraisals.
- Maintain accurate pupil data using Bromcom and manage statutory returns such as Census and Headcount.
- Lead on internal and external communications, including social media and press releases.
- Coordinate key school events including Parents Evenings and Year 6 leavers’ celebrations.
- Act as the school’s Media Lead and Admin Lead for SARS requests.
- Ensure excellent customer service to parents, carers, and external stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience in a senior administrative role, ideally within a school setting.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to work independently and under pressure.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with Bromcom.
- A collaborative team player with a flexible approach to work.
- Commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and the Christian ethos of the school.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of media and social media platforms.
- Understanding of safeguarding best practices.
- Experience supporting PTA activities and managing event budgets.
Join us and become a valued part of a supportive and forward-thinking school community.
Our Academy Trust is committed to improving the life chances of all children through education and personal development. Each child is unique. We encourage and support every child through their exciting journey within our trust equipping them with the skills they need for the future.
Our approach is based on sharing excellence within our trust, recruiting, training and retaining the highest calibre of staff who share our vision of enlightening, enriching, empowering and evolving a generation through education.
‘Enlightening, Enriching, Empowering and Evolving generations through education’
We offer a fantastic supportive place to work along with flexible work opportunities, including hybrid working, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practices, and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About St Bede Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 660 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Bede Academy website
St. Bede is a popular three-form entry Academy with 630 pupils on roll, serving a wide community with pupils from different faiths. The present School was formed in September 1992 through the amalgamation of a well-established Infant and Junior School. It became an Academy on 1st July 2011 and is now part of a Multi-Academy Trust, along with our sister school Tonge Moor Primary Academy.
Collaboration between both schools in the MAT is strong, supporting staff’s workload and well-being, and career development. Staff members benefit from: on-site MAT HR support; on-site full time MAT IT support; on-site school term time nursery; on-site 52 week private nursery; on-site out of school club and holiday club; discounted childcare; bespoke personal development opportunities as well as full access to The National College CPD package; a committed Governing body; a supportive leadership team who prioritise well-being; pupils who behave well, are eager to learn, are calm, happy and enjoy school life; a family ethos that nurtures individual talent, empowering all to flourish.
As a Church of England Primary school our school vision, values and scripture underpin our daily practice. We have a strong relationship with St. Bede's Church and this forms the basis of a very happy community.
The School underwent its Statutory Inspection for Anglican and Methodist Schools in February 2023 and the glowing report with a secure ‘Good’ judgement captures life at St. Bede perfectly. The report can be found our school website.
The large school building is made up of: twenty two classrooms, a music room, a computing suite, a main hall, a small hall, an intervention classroom, a library, a staff PPA room, a meeting room, a staffroom and a number of office spaces. We have an urban site with no grounds or playing fields, although the school has access to the adjacent council playing fields which we are currently in talks with the council about purchasing for our children. We have two playgrounds, a Reception outdoor area, a Nursery outdoor area, a Year 1 outdoor area and an allotment.
Our bespoke curriculum ensures that all children are provided with a broad, balanced curriculum taking into account their interests, needs and talents. Our curriculum is sequential from the EYFS to Y6 and is successfully designed to be ambitious and meet the needs of all pupils. We are proud to have specialist teachers in Music, Modern Foreign Languages, Computing and Art who teach from EYFS to Year 6.
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