General Administrative Assistant

Tarvin Primary School; Chester; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 13,000; Part time

Job summary

Tarvin Primary School is seeking a General Administration Assistant to join our administration Team on a 20-hour-per-week, term-time contract (38 weeks per year).

You will support attendance and finance administration, reception duties, reprographics and co-ordinate educational visits. Some playground supervision is included; training for First Aid will be provided. DBS check is required.

Qualifications

• Excellent administrative and organisational skills.
• Team player with good communication.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Experience of SIMS would be desirable; training provided.

Responsibilities

• Attendance and financial administration.
• First Aid administration (training provided).
• Reception, post and reprographics duties.
• Educational visits co-ordination.
• Up to one hour playground supervision each day.

Skills

Administrative skills

Organisational skills

Team player

First Aid awareness

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

SIMS (desirable)

Job description

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT

REF: AAAD5048

Grade 3 (SCP 4), 20 hours per week,

38 weeks worked per year (this is Term Time only and does not include INSET days)

(Actual Salary is currently £11,822 p.a. pro-rata of full time full year salary £26,016

Tarvin Primary School, is seeking to make the above appointment to the school’s administration Team.

The successful applicant will provide administrative support for the school including the following areas:

General Administration working alongside an experienced colleague:

• Attendance and financial administration
• First Aid administration (training would be provided)
• Reception/Post/Reprographics
• Educational Visits Co-Ordination
• As we are a small school this role would also incorporate up to one hour playground supervision each day

The successful applicant will have excellent administrative and organisation skills, be a team player and have knowledge of Microsoft Office i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook. Experience of SIMS (Schools Information Management System) would be desirable but not essential as training would be provided. The working hours for this role will be spread over five days. There would be some morning and some afternoon shifts.

Tarvin Primary School is part of Sandstone Trust, located at the heart of rural Cheshire. We are a village primary schoo l with just over 220 pupils and we are proud of our talented and hardworking teaching and support staff so this is an exciting opportunity to join our successful team.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful applicants will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS check and references will be taken. Safeguarding Policies are available on the school website.

The closing date for applications is: 12:00 noon on Monday 30th November 2026

Early applications are welcome