Description Post Details Position: Admin Assistant (Maternity Cover) Duration: 9 Months Hours per week: 35 hrs to be worked as 10:00-17:45 Monday to Friday Salary: Band 4 salary band £23,100 Closing Date: Friday 28 th February 2025 Interview Date: Monday 10 th March 2025 Job Start Date: ASAP Location of Role: Bramble Infant School and Nursery Contact email address: besaubramble.portsmouth.sch.uk Job/Person Summary Bramble Infant School and Nursery is a diverse two form entry Infant School and 109 place day Nursery in the heart of Southsea, committed to delivering excellent outcomes for all. We are seeking to appoint an Admin Assistant to join our successful and nurturing team to cover a 9 month period of maternity leave. Our Admin Team are based in the heart of the School and Nursery in the main school office. We are looking for someone with experience in a customer-facing environment and ideally with a school background (but this is not essential) to join our office team in this busy and varied role. Our new Admin Assistant will: have grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English have and a high standard of both written and spoken literacy. be confident in using IT, especially Microsoft Office applications be an excellent communicator with staff, pupils, parents and the wider community be organised and able to prioritise your workload be flexible in working practices using your initiative to work independently where appropriate be able to work under pressure and multi-task whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail In return, we will offer you: a unique and exciting opportunity at our Ofsted rated “good” school and nursery a well-resourced and popular school and nursery with an excellent reputation committed, hardworking and friendly staff a full range of CPD to keep your skills up to date and relevant a competitive salary and 27 days pro rata annual leave plus bank holidays a generous local government pension scheme exclusive savings on goods and services through Portsmouth City Councils ‘my rewards’ scheme wellbeing support and advice through our employee assistance programme Application Procedure Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit please contact the Business Manager on 023 9282 8606. Please apply using the attached application form. Completed application forms can be returned by hand to the School Office addressed to the Business Manager or by email to besaubramble.portsmouth.sch.uk. You can view the job description for the role here. PCC & Bramble Infant School and Nursery School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level and any other background checks, including overseas checks will be required prior to any offer of employment. You will need to demonstrate that you have a Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it. This advert is in no way exhaustive and we welcome queries about this post via email to besaubramble.portsmouth.sch.uk or via the telephone, 023 9282 8606 We would like to thank you in advance for your application; however please note we will only contact those applicants shortlisted for an interview. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) As part of any recruitment process, Bramble Infant School and Nursery collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. Bramble Infant School and Nursery is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Completing and submitting an application for a vacancy is your consent for us to process your data for the purpose of recruitment. Your data is not used in any other way and you can withdraw your consent at any point in the recruitment process and we will destroy or delete your information. For more detailed information on what we collect, how we use, store, and delete data and your rights you can access a privacy statement on our website.