Business Administration Apprenticeship

Summary

The School Administrator (Apprentice) provides support to the Chief Executive Officer, Senior Leadership Team and Central Services Team whilst undertaking a Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship. Working with colleagues, the postholder will develop the skills and behaviours needed to become an effective administrator.

• Hours:
  
  Monday to Friday, shift time tbc at interview, 36 hours a week
• Wage: £8 per hour. This will increase to the NMW for you age if you are 19+
• Location:
  
  155 Canterbury Road, Leyton, London, E10 6EJ
• Programme:
  Level 3
  Business administrator
• Hours:
  
  Monday to Friday, shift time tbc at interview, 36 hours a week
• Duration: 18 Months

• Undertake reception duties, answering general telephone and face-to-face enquiries and signing in visitors, in compliance with school safeguarding procedures.
• Liaise with parents, staff and other relevant individuals as required.
• Provide general clerical and administrative support, including photocopying, filing, completing standard forms and preparing routine correspondence.
• Produce lists, information and data as required by other staff members.
• Undertake typing, word processing and other IT-based tasks.
• Sort and distribute incoming and outgoing mail.
• Assist with maintaining manual and computerised records, particularly in relation to new admissions, school correspondence and outstanding payments.
• Assist with organising letters and information relating to the admissions process, including admissions forms, school prospectuses, acceptance letters and other relevant documentation.
• Assist with administering school lunches, including keeping track of and reporting the number of pupils having school lunches, in liaison with the kitchen and through the administration of dinner registers.
• Administer lunch payments, including maintaining payment records, chasing overdue payments and supporting the banking of monies.
• Support lunchtime supervision, when required, including assisting with the supervision of pupils in the playground and dinner hall, helping with tables and assisting at the end of meal service.
• Assist with administering the School Management Information System (Arbor), including keeping the pupil database up to date with contact addresses and other relevant information.

• Qualification:
  
  Level 3 Business Administration
• Duration: 18-months
• Delivery:
  All learning will be delivered online alongside full-time placement at the trust

Essential qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English (Grade
  4) essential

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience

At Barclay Primary School, our mission is to nurture confident, compassionate, and curious learners who are empowered to reach their full potential, academically, personally, and socially. We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to thrive in a safe, inclusive, and ambitious environment.

Our school is a vibrant community where values matter, character counts, and success is measured not only in achievements but in the kind of people our pupils become.