Senior Administrator (part time) - 23.75 hrs per week
Moortown Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17 6DR24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 23.75 hrs per week, Monday to Friday 11.45am - 4.30pm each day
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- B3 points 07 to 11
Hourly rate
- £13.26 - £14.13 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint someone who shares our vision of developing this inspiring environment and who contributes towards the positive ethos of our school. Our staff and governors work hard to maintain and develop schools with an environment of inspiration and fun, where our children can live and learn in a happy and safe environment.
The successful candidate will need to be a friendly and calm first point of contact for our parents/carers and visitors to the school. You'll have the motivation to work well under direction, as part of a team and using your own initiative, as well as being able to respond quickly to the changing needs of the school and/or interruptions from different members of our school community. You’ll also need a good eye for detail and excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
You will be required to:
- deal with telephone and face to face enquiries from internal and external customers
- manage attendance
- record dinner orders and liaise with the kitchen
- use ICT applications (SIMS, Word, Excel)
- collect, record and bank income for dinner money, school clubs, holiday clubs and educational visits
- process pupil admissions in accordance with the admissions policy
- prepare written communications – letter, email and text
- order and monitor stock supplies, and process invoices
- work with others to help sustain work organisation and effectiveness.
The post is term time only + 2 days.
What the school offers its staff
For children and staff alike, Sphere Federation has:
- A perfect balance of care and support with high expectations
- A leadership team dedicated to attainment, achievement and enjoyment
- Friendly, welcoming staff
- A great atmosphere and ethos which promotes inclusion and co-operation
- A commitment to diversity and a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting welfare and safety (thorough checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks)
Further details about the role
For further information please visit: https://www.moortown.leeds.sch.uk/join-in/vacancies/
There will be a 6-month probationary period.
Closing date – 04 July 2025, 9am
For our children, we’re a happy and
healthy place to learn. For our staff, we’re a happy and healthy place to work.
We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
Sphere Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of all children, and expects our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our safeguarding information, along with a link to our Child Protection Policy, can be foundhere.
The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account.Guidance and criteria from the Ministry of Justice on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found here.Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those thatare notfiltered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.Further information about filtering offences can be found in theDBS filtering guidance.
We may carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, that might compromise your professional role.
Please note, under Section 7(1)(a) of the SVGA 2006 (Legislation.gov.uk), it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred in engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Sphere Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of all children, and expects our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our safeguarding information, along with a link to our Child Protection Policy, can be found on our website.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Moortown Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 211 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Moortown Primary School website
- Email address
- moortownfinance@spherefederation.org
- Phone number
- 0113 268 5915
Moortown Primary is a happy and healthy place to learn.
A small school with a big heart, tucked away in Moortown, North Leeds.
‘Moortown is such a caring and nuturing environment which allows children to grow academically as well as emotionally. We have been so impressed with the communication through the last year and all the clear messages and procedures put in place to create a safe environment. We hold Moortown in high regards and feel very lucky that our child and us are part of the school community’ (Annual parents’ survey, 2021). Ofsted judge us to be outstanding and our Key Stage 2 SAT results are amongst the highest in the country: consistently over 90% of our children attain nationally expected levels or higher and make expected progress or better.
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