School Business Assistant

The Governors wish to appoint a School Business Assistant with professionalism, enthusiasm and compassion to join our friendly and hard-working school team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team, working alongside our established School Business Officer and Business Assistant. Full training will be given.

Our ideal candidate would have the ability to increase hours and pay grade and step up in the future if required. The post would be best suited to a professional and personable individual who has administration experience and good attention to detail.

This post is initially to work 16.5 hours per week. This will be 8.30am – 3.30pm on Thursday and Friday, plus 8.30am - 12.00pm on an agreed day.

The start date for this appointment will be as soon as the successful candidate is available.

As our new Assistant, you will:

• Demonstrate excellent IT knowledge and have good communication and organisational skills.
• Be able to prioritise and organise workloads under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate and fulfil reception duties by various methods of communication in a professional and courteous manner.
• Be an excellent team player with a willingness to be an integral part of the school community.
• Have the ability to develop relationships and communicate with all school stakeholders, in a happy and positive manner.
• Be able to prioritise and organise routine statutory tasks and one-off projects/events.
• Be committed to our policies on keeping children safe from harm.

We will offer you:

• A happy, thriving school environment
• Committed, supportive, caring and friendly staff.
• Commitment to support staff wellbeing and work life balance.
• A leadership team supportive of training & development opportunities.
• The opportunity to work as part of a supportive and experienced team.

Provisional Interview Date: 5 May 2026

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.