Purchasing Assistant

International Schools Today; Tandridge; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 10%

Subsidised Sports Centre Membership

Continuous Professional Development

Health Cash Plan

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle Scheme

Caterham School Benefit Hub

Free counselling and legal advice

Job summary

Caterham School invites applications for an outstanding Purchasing Assistant to join our busy procurement team. You will support the sourcing and management of goods and services across our co-educational day and boarding community.

We offer a competitive remuneration and benefits package, including a generous pension contribution, subsidised sport facilities, CPD opportunities, health cash plan, and additional schemes to support sustainable travel and wellbeing.

Job description

Caterham is a UK leading co-educational day and boarding school and awarded Times Educational Supplement Best Independent Senior School in 2023. We are a high-achieving, ambitious and friendly school recognised for our academic achievement, our innovation and our Wellbeing programme, which underpins all that we do here. Our academic results consistently place us as a top-performing UK independent school. Caterham is an EdTech 50 and an Apple Distinguished School, winner of the TES ‘Best Use of Digital’ award and the first UK school to be awarded the National Children’s Bureau’s Wellbeing for Schools Award.

Our progressive approach to learning and teaching, our focus on embracing the best of technology, combined with the strength and warmth of our school community, makes Caterham a unique place in which to work. Caterham is a school which supports its staff to progress and play a full part in our pupils’, and the school’s, achievements.

The community here is vibrant and energetic, both in the classroom and across the broad scope of co-curricular activities on offer. Our community holds a wide range of academic, artistic and sporting interests, all underpinned by a collective drive to support achievement - and each other.

We are looking for an outstanding Purchasing Assistant to join our dynamic and friendly Family of Schools.

Caterham provides a competitive remuneration and benefits package which includes:

A pension scheme with an employer’s contribution of up to 10%

Subsidised Sports Centre Membership

Continuous Professional Development

Health Cash Plan

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle Scheme

Access to Caterham School Benefit Hub

Free counselling and legal advice service

Fees remission

The closing date for applications is 9.00am, Friday 6 November 2026; although early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of their application.

Caterham School is committed to applying its equality, diversion and inclusion policy at all stages of recruitment and selection and to ensuring that our employees are always treated fair and equally in every part of school life.