Love your neighbour as yourself

Administrative Assistant

Hours – 15 hours per week

Monday to Friday, 3 hours per day (preferably afternoons but this is flexible)

39 weeks per year

Fixed term until February 2026 to cover a secondment.

Grade E5-6 (£24,404 FTE. This will be £8500.65 actual per annum)

Do you want to work in a values-led school with a commitment to staff growth and well-being as well as outstanding progress for all pupils? If so, we would love to hear from you!

St. Andrew's is a Christian values-led, highly popular school and nursery in the heart of Kettering and is part of the Peterborough Diocese Academy Trust (PDET). We're proud of the way children not only make great progress in their learning, but also how we take such pride in developing our children's character and behaviour. Children are at the heart of every decision we make as we strive to serve and better our community.

We want St Andrew’s to be a beacon of our community that inspires adults and children alike with outstanding learning and teaching. Where children develop a thirst and love of learning that will be lifelong. We want St Andrew’s to be a school where children learn to love their neighbour as themselves and ‘Where young minds grow and young hearts learn to care’ through a thoughtful and wide-ranging development of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development within the Christian faith. We want our values to be our children’s virtues.

Following a recent successful OFSTED inspection in 2023, our school has received a very well-deserved rating of Good, and inspectors commented;

"This is an extremely inclusive and welcoming school. Pupils get on well with each other. They are caring and kind. They enjoy positive relationships with staff. Staff hold pupils’ interests at the heart of all that they do."

We are proud to be recruiting for an efficient, professional and organised Administrator, to provide a clerical, financial and executive service to the school. This role is an essential and valued position, to ensure local, trust and statutory deadlines are met, facilitating the management of key processes, that support our children.  

This is a role where no two days are the same!

By working with children, staff, parents, governors and trust members, the role of the administrator will be involved in all aspects of school life, and will work with a focused and conscientious attitude, committed to providing an effective service that prioritises communication, management, and confidentiality. The role of an administrator is an

Visits are actively encouraged! We would love to show you around our school for an informal tour. Please get in touch with the headteacher, Ben Arnell, by e-mailing him on head@standrews.pdet.org.uk

Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert if we receive enough suitable applications. Therefore, please don’t delay in applying!

St Andrew’s CE Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance. Please note CVs will not be accepted and Application Forms should be completed in full. Any gaps in employment must be identified and justified.