General Administration Team Leader

Linwood School; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading special school in Bournemouth is seeking an experienced Team Leader to oversee the administration staff across multiple campuses. You'll ensure effective communication with families, maintain safeguarding policies, and foster a welcoming environment for students. The role involves flexible working hours, requiring travel between campuses. Strong administrative and management skills in a school environment are essential for success. The position offers career development and comprehensive training programs.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Career development

Comprehensive induction training

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• Skilled administrator ideally with experience in a special school environment.
• Ability to support colleagues pastorally and oversee practical arrangements.
• Genuine requirement for vehicle access due to multi-campus environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee administration staff across campuses.
• Ensure smooth-running of campuses and communication with families.
• Maintain controlled access and apply safeguarding arrangements.

Skills

Extensive knowledge of school systems and processes

Effective management of people

Warm welcome to students and families

Safeguarding and safety approach

Continuous improvement mindset

Peer group leadership

Job description

BCP Salary Band 7 - appointments will be made at the starting point of the salary range. 37 hours per week, 41 weeks per year (term time plus inset days, and ten days during the holidays).

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and skilled Team Leader to oversee the general administration staff working across our Campuses. Our reception teams are the welcoming face of Linwood School and are absolutely central to the smooth‑running of our campuses and, particularly, to support communication with families. This is a permanent post, working 37 hours per week for 41 weeks per year (term time plus inset days, and ten days during the holidays). The role will be based at our Linwood Campus on Alma Road, Winton but the successful candidate will need to be able to travel to all of our Campuses on a regular basis. The working hours will generally be from 8am to 4pm, but some flexibility is required.

Linwood School is an ‘Outstanding’ multi‑campus, day special school for children and young people aged 3 – 19. Our students have a wide range of special educational needs including moderate (MLD), severe (SLD) and profound (PMLD) and complex learning difficulties (CLDD) and those on the Autism spectrum. We offer a variety of curriculum pathways to meet those needs and ensure that all our pupils achieve the best possible outcomes. It is essential that our students have a safe, calm and welcoming environment in which to learn.

What we need:

• A skilled administrator with extensive knowledge of school systems and processes (ideally in a special school environment).
• An effective manager of people; able to support colleagues pastorally and oversee practical arrangements to ensure cover levels are maintained.
• A colleague who can offer a warm welcome to our students and their families; being the first point of contact for them and for visitors.
• A safeguarding and safety approach; our front desks are the guardians to maintain controlled access and consistently apply our safeguarding arrangements during school hours.
• A continuous improvement mindset; able to assess our systems and processes and always look for a better way for us to work – finding consistency, efficiency and using technology to our advantage.
• A peer group leader for all administrators; facilitating a support network across our various locations and ensuring that their development and training needs are met.

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the postholder to have access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the multi‑campus working environment.

Benefits

• An Employee Assistance Programme to support staff wellbeing.
• Career development.
• Comprehensive induction training and ongoing on the job training.
• Long Service Awards.

For any enquiries regarding your application please contact Kate Woodhead, Operations Manager at [e-mail].

Interview date: Thursday 8th January 2026.

Linwood School are proud to have been awarded a Silver Award by the mental health charity Mind for the work we are doing in school to promote positive mental health, support staff and reduce stigma.

Linwood School is an equal opportunities employer which values a diverse workforce. We seek and encourage applications from individuals from a diverse background who will come and work with us and become part of our Linwood family, supportive of our school values whilst providing an excellent an inclusive service to our students, ensuring they continue to feel part of the school community in everyday activities.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people and the successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check as well as an overseas criminal records check, if you have worked or lived outside the UK within the past 10 years. Offers of employment are also subject to satisfactory references, health and right to work checks.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. If the role is exempt, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected,’ so they do not need to be disclosed, and if they are disclosed, we cannot take them into account.

All Linwood School staff are expected to adhere to our policies and procedures in respect of safeguarding and child protection, including Keeping Children Safe in Education and Guidance for adults working with children and young people in an education setting.