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Ashdon Primary School, near Saffron Walden in north-west Essex, is looking to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic Office Administrator from 1st September 2025. The post will be for 26 hours a week over 4 days - Monday - Thursday, term time only. Salary to be paid on Scale 4 Point 7 £25,584 per annum, pro rata (£15,855 actual salary).
We are looking for someone who is:
- highly organised
- excellent at multi-tasking
- friendly, calm and efficient
- an excellent communicator both verbally and in writing
- a confident user of IT systems, especially Microsoft packages
- a team player but can work independently
- flexible and has a sense of humour
Ashdon Primary School is a small, friendly village school with 55 pupils on roll currently and 14 staff. We have a supportive Governing Body and an active PTA. You can find out more about us at https://www.ashdonprimaryschool.com/
We welcome and encourage visits from potential applicants. If you would like to come and see us in action and meet our Headteacher, please phone the office on 01799 584219 to make an appointment.
The closing date for applications is 31st May 2025
Interviews will take place the week beginning 9th June 2025
Although the start date for this post is 1st September, it would be very helpful if the successful applicant could spend some time at the school in the Summer term to enable a smooth handover with the current post holder.
If you would like to apply for this post, please fill in the application form and email it with a covering letter to admin@ashdon.essex.sch.uk
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and governors 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.
Information about the School
Ashdon Primary School is a small rural Primary School which is situated less than four miles from both Saffron Walden & Linton, at the heart of a thriving rural village community.
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