Admin Assistant at Roecroft Lower School

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Job Reference #

EDV/2025/RLS/02511

Location

Buttercup Road, Stotfold, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 4PF

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Term

Part-Time

Salary

£16,046.00 - £16,555.00 Annually (Actual)
NJC Level 2B point 3-5 (£24,796 - ££25,583) paid pro rata

Closing Date

12:00pm, 8th Jan 2026

Start Date

ASAP

Positions Available

Positions Available 1

Interview Date(s)

Week commencing 12th January - Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis

Interview Date(s) Week commencing 12th January - Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis

About this Role

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

To undertake reception duties and deal with general enquiries from visitors, parents etc ensuring that the signing in procedures are followed correctly with regard to Safeguarding within the school.
To operate the school telephone system, forwarding calls as appropriate and taking messages as required.
To be a main point of contact for first aid, care for sick pupils, arranging first aid as necessary and contacting parents where required.
To provide clerical support to teaching staff, including routine typing/word processing, filing and photocopying.
To monitor the school’s emails, forwarding them to the appropriate member of staff, or responding as necessary.
To ensure that the school website content is kept up to date, adding new content as necessary.
To organise the booking of staff training, and maintaining of a database.
To organise invitations to community representatives to events, such as Easter, Christmas Plays and Dance Morning, and send Christmas cards each year.
To assist with coordinating the autumn term open evening and pre-school visits.
Update the school’s website with event photograph’s, newsletters, letters/ParentMails and dates on the calendar.
Support of school library system alongside Library Lead.
To organise the annual Book Fair with Scholastic.

For full details of the role including person specification, please see the attached application pack.

Contact Details

  Jo Lamb
  01462 730336
  admin@roecroft.co.uk

Roecroft Lower School would like all candidates to answer specific questions for the personal statement section. For reference, here is a preview of the questions/headings:

Please provide examples to demonstrate how your qualifications meet the essential criteria for this role
Please provide examples to demonstrate how your skills and abilities meet the essential criteria for this role
Please provide examples to demonstrate how your behaviours meet the essential criteria for this role.
Please provide examples to demonstrate how your relevant experience meet the essential criteria for this role