- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003140
- Job Title
- Administration Assistant
- Job Start Date
- 28 April 2025 or as soon as possible
- Salary Range
- £24,027 to £25,992 pro rata, subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
- Hours Per Week
- 36.5
- Working Pattern
- Term time only
- School Address
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St Francis Catholic Primary School
Brougham Street
Birmingham
B19 1PH
Telephone number: 0121 464 5072 - Contact Email
- l.freeman@stfranrc.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Fixed term
- Period of Fixed Term Contract
- 12 months
- Closing Date
- 7 March 2025, 4:00pm
- Job Information
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The Governors wish to appoint a full time Administrative Assistant.
We are a two-form entry Catholic Primary School. We are looking for an Administrative Assistant to support the smooth running of our busy school office and assist with the day to day duties of school life. At St Francis, we are proud of our Catholic ethos, and our warm and welcoming approach. We have recently been judged as a Good school by Ofsted and in our Catholic Schools Inspection.
The role will be to support and work closely with the Office Manager. In this role you would be expected to support admin functions within the school office.
The role is in main office and will involve general office duties.
You will also be required to:
- daily monitor pupil’s attendance, compiling accurate information when required for the senior leadership team
- follow our attendance procedures, including making daily phone calls, and entering required data
- lead on ‘The Fast-Track to Attendance strategy’ (knowledge of this would be an advantage)
- work with suppliers to get quotes for school
- place orders on the system as required by school staff and finance/SLT
- answer the telephone and deal with queries, as required in a school setting
- deal with in-person queries, queries via email/telephone
- meet and greet visitors to school
- provide accurate and consistent record keeping
- use school’s IT systems to produce letters, emails, and reports
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged and can be arranged by contacting our Office Manager, Laura Freeman.
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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How to apply:
To request an application pack, arrange a visit or find out more, please contact the school directly on 0121 464 5072 or email us at: l.freeman@stfranrc.bham.sch.uk
Applications should be returned to school.
All completed applications must be submitted using a CES application form which can be obtained along with a full application pack from the school. Completed forms should be returned to: l.freeman@stfranrc.bham.sch.uk
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- BCC is a Living Wage employer.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.