Office Manager

SAMpeople; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Sir Geoff Hurst Academy in Chelmsford seeks an outstanding Office Manager for our new purpose-built school. The role requires enthusiasm and a clear commitment to children with complex SEMH needs, with safeguarding at the core of daily operations.

We value a proactive office professional who can coordinate administrative tasks, support staff, and contribute to a nurturing learning environment for our pupils and residential provision. This is a full-time permanent position.

Qualifications

• Experience in an office management role within a school or caring environment.
• Understanding of and commitment to children with complex behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.
• Ability to manage safeguarding compliance and DBS processes.

Skills

Office management

Safeguarding

Communication

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Job description

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and energetic Office Manager for our new purpose built school in Chelmsford.

Applicants must be enthusiastic, with an understanding of and commitment to children with complex behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.

Information about the School

Sir Geoff Hurst Academy is a special school offering a nurturing, inclusive environment for 65 pupils with SEMH and associated needs with residential provision for fifteen pupils. We have high expectations for each child to leave as a confident young adult who is well prepared for the future. The Sir Geoff Hurst Academy is built on the site of the site where Rainsford High was located and where Sir Geoff attended school. A hero to many of us as the only man to score a hat-trick in a world cup final when England were victorious in 1966, our CEO was honoured to meet Sir Geoff in person to ask for permission to name the school after him.

The school which is located in central Chelmsford and delivers great practice and informative teaching aims at supporting the children and young people to access meaningful outcomes and life pathways.

The Beckmead Trust Schools; reflect a commitment to pupils' academic, physical, social, vocational and emotional progress. To give children an opportunity to flourish in all aspects of their lives the Trust believes in nurturing all members of the school community. We believe the environment needs to reflect this by being warm, purposeful and understandable.

The curriculum presents formal, informal and enriched opportunities for development and progress. This enables the children who graduate from Beckmead to become independent, connected members of the communities where they live and the workplaces that may employ them.

For more information please see the attached Job Description.

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff and volunteers, as well as those who work on the premises, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance to include the ability to participate in Physical Intervention and a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on all shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents or issues that are publicly available online.

Key Role Information

Job type Full Time

Contract type Permanent

Closing 26/06/2026 00:00

Interview TBC

Start 1 September 2026

Contract term TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks

Pay grade NJC Support Outer Fringe | NJC19 - NJC24