Workforce Co-ordinator

Riverside Bridge School, Barking, Essex, IG11 0FU

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 October 2026

• Closing date

  31 August 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 August 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: £27,803.00 Annually (Actual) 5.12 Support Scale Pro-Rata

Workforce Co-ordinator job summary

The Workforce Co-ordinator is a key operational role at Riverside Bridge School, helping to ensure that the school is effectively staffed and organised each day. You will take responsibility for coordinating daily staff cover and workforce deployment, responding to absences and changing operational needs from the start of the school day.

You will work closely with supply agencies, oversee agency staff arrangements and compliance, and help ensure that appropriate safeguarding and safer recruitment checks are completed before staff are deployed. The role also includes supporting recruitment processes from advertising and interview coordination through to pre-employment checks, induction and onboarding.
Working alongside senior leaders and colleagues across the school, you will be an important point of contact for staffing, recruitment and workforce matters. This is a busy and varied role suited to someone who is highly organised, proactive, professional and solution-focused, with the confidence to manage competing priorities and remain calm when circumstances change quickly.

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

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.

About Riverside Bridge School

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 4 to 16
• Size: 291 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Riverside Bridge School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverside-bridge-school

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