PA to Head Teacher, Executive Assistant to SLT and Office Manager

Q3 Academy Langley; Oldbury; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on everyday purchases (Eden 

UK HealthCare plan

Cycle to work scheme

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Q3 Academy Langley seeks a PA to the Head Teacher, Executive Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team and Office Manager. The role involves providing confidential administrative support, diary management, and coordinating the admin team to ensure smooth school operations.

The successful candidate will handle sensitive information, maintain accurate records, and contribute to efficient functioning across attendance, admissions, and reception.

Qualifications

• Experience providing admin support in an educational setting is preferred.
• Ability to manage confidential information and records.
• Proactive and well-organised with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding operational and executive support to the Headteacher and SLT.
• Handle sensitive information and maintain confidentiality; diary management and minute taking.
• Lead/admin team oversight of attendance, reception, admissions, and related admin tasks.
• Ensure admin team are well-trained and perform duties effectively.

Skills

Diary management

Minute taking

Confidentiality

Administrative support

MIS experience

Tools

MIS

Job description

Job Title:PA to Head Teacher, Executive Assistant to SLT and Office Manager

Location: Langley

At Q3 Langley Our vision for learning is based around the whole child, ensuring no child is left behind. Our unique,innovativeand exciting curriculum in Year 7 provides anexcellent transition from Primary School. This enables pupils from all starting points to make rapid progress and enjoy their learning whilst improving their literacy skills.

Within TheTrust we are proud that our ethnically and culturally diverse community is fully represented by the students and staff at each Academy. The Q3 ethos; ‘to seek that which is good, that which is right and that which is true,’ fully embraces the fundamental British Values of democracy; the rule of law; individual liberty; mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs.

Students will be taught in mixed-attainment classes for their Core lessons. These follow the English Baccalaureate suite of subjects – English, mathematics, science, modern foreign languages,geographyand history. Outside of the Coresubjectsstudents follow a carousel of teaching in the Horizon or Innov8 curriculum. This broad and balanced curriculum focuses on developing knowledge and skills in computing, business, design, religious studies, PSHE, art, dance,dramaand music.

We use strategies within the curriculum and beyond to ensure these values are communicated and acted upon.

At theAcademyour spiritual, moral,socialand cultural (SMSC) education permeates through the curriculum, supports the development of the ‘whole child’and includes the teaching and development of British Values.

The Academyseeksto continuously review and evaluate its work by gaining external accreditation. The successful completion of the awards listed belowdemonstratesthat SMSC and British Values are incorporated into the daily life of the Academy:

Discovering Democracy Award for promoting youth participation and democracy in schools

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Army Cadet Force

Sandwell Shape Awards

Furthermore, our Wednesday afternoon offer of physical education and enrichment ensures that all students take an active part in developing skills, interests and talents they may not have known existed.

Our commitment to developing the whole child, while maintaining the highest academic expectations, has received significant regional and national recognition.

Q3 Academy Langley has received TES Schools Awards nominations in three consecutive years, 2024, 2025 and 2026, reflecting the sustained impact of our work and the strength of our Academy community.

In 2026, we were especially proud to be named a Silver Award winner in the Pearson National Teaching Awards, Making a Difference: Secondary School of the Year, recognising the difference our staff and wider Academy community make to the lives and futures of young people.

Our success is also increasingly enabling Q3 Langley to contribute to education beyond our own Academy. In 2026, we became a Department for Education RISE Attendance and Behaviour Lead Hub School, recognising the strength of our approach to attendance, behaviour, belonging and school culture. Through this national programme, Q3 Langley is supporting other schools across the West Midlands to improve attendance and behaviour and create calm, supportive environments in which children can achieve and thrive.

Our outward-facing work extends further. Headteacher Peter Lee was appointed as a Regional Co-Chair of the national DfE KS3 Alliance in 2026, contributing Q3 Langley's experience and expertise to national collaboration around Key Stage 3.

Want to make a difference to young people?

Are you ready to embark on a rewarding journey within an educational community that values increasing opportunities, improving outcomes for our students.We are looking for aPA to Head Teacher, Executive Assistant to SLT and Office Managerto join our team. Reporting toHeadteacheryouwill:

Provide outstanding operational and executive support to the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team, handle sensitive information and maintain confidentiality, keeping accurate records. Be committed, enthusiastic and produce high quality work, to ensure efficiencies within the Academy.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Support to the Headteacher & Senior Leadership Team

• Provide confidential administrative support to the Headteacher, including diary management, minute taking and handling correspondence; this includes some diary management, confidential note taking, managing complaints and correspondence.

Confidential HR Administration

• Ensure sickness is accurately reported on MIS and that return-to-work interviews have taken place where appropriate.

Managing School Operations

• Lead and develop the Admin Team Oversight of the administration teams (including Attendance, Graphic and Media, Reception, Admissions, ensuring they run smoothly and effectively.

Office Manager

• Ensure the Admin Team are well-trained and can perform their duties effectively.

Pay range:Scale & Range: Grade 8 (26-31)| Weeks per Year:52.143 | FTE/Actual Salary: £38,510 - £43,149

For full details of the post please see attached Job Description

Why The Mercian Trust?

As one Trust weshare a common purpose. We call it our social mobility and social justice mission tochange our communities through thevery bestequitableeducation. When we get this right, itenables our children and young people to fulfil their potential, thrive in the world of work, and make a positive contribution to the local,nationaland international community. Our recent achievements include:

Sustainable Growth- becoming one of the largest and most diverse trusts in the region

Social Mobility & Social Justice- National recognition for the Trust’s two selective grammar schools who the mostsuccessful on the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance and joining the schools

Increasing Opportunities– Opening brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision for students at risk at permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a Digital Skills Hub to provide professionals and employers

Pioneering Spirit– National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, includingestablishingan in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students

Outward Looking– Organising and hosting the region’s first Youth Suicide Conference (2023) and Youth Violence Conference (2024) at Villa Park

Innovation and Improvement– A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools and our Digital Skills Hub underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trustoperatesin readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future.

What can we offer you:

Benefits:

Financial, Health and Lifestyle

• discounts on everyday purchases (Eden Red)
• a comprehensive free of charge health plan (UK Health Care)
• a cycle to work scheme via Halfords
• access to the Blue Light Card

For furtherbenefits including education sector leading CPD:The Mercian Trust - What we can offer you

The Mercian Trustis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

The Mercian Trustis also committed to promoting equality, challengingdiscriminationand developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.