What skills and experience we're looking for
Key responsibilities for this role includes:
• Undertake reception duties, answering the telephone (transferring calls, taking and delivering caller messages) and deal with face to face enquiries.
• Provide clerical and administrative support ensuring systems, files and records are kept up to date.
• Answering of telephones, taking messages and responding to enquiries, using school office equipment and general office duties.
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer:
• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
• A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
• The benefitof working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
• Membership of the Local Government PensionScheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
Further details about the role
This post is term time only and fixed term to 31st August 2025.
We are seeking a highly motivated and capable Administration Assistant/Receptionist to join our dedicated team and contribute to the efficient operation of our school. The post-holder will act as a first point of contact for the school, managing communications and providing information to staff, pupils, and the public, while also ensuring the smooth execution of administrative functions.
Key responsibilities for this role includes:
• Undertake reception duties, answering the telephone (transferring calls, taking and delivering caller messages) and deal with face to face enquiries.
• Provide clerical and administrative support ensuring systems, files and records are kept up to date.
• Answering of telephones, taking messages and responding to enquiries, using school office equipment and general office duties.
We are looking for a colleague who has:
• Experience in a similar role covering a range of administrative duties.
• A good general education demonstrating numeracy and literacy.
• A proactive approach to prioritising workload.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to suit a variety of audiences.
St Hild’s Church of England School is in an exciting phase of its development and has high ambition for its pupils. With a strong Christian ethos we work effectively across the whole community to improve and enrich the lives of children.
Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.
If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying job description and person specification and click 'apply now' to complete an online application form no later than midnight on Thursday 9th April 2025.
NEAT Academy Trust are committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.