Admin Assistant

Overview

Admin / Clerical Officer — Permanent Contract — Part Time, Term Time only plus 5 days — Variable hours contract range 12 – 25 hours, initially 18 hours per week — Band 4 point 7 to 11 (depending on qualifications and experience) £26,403 to £28,142 (FTE) per annum (£11,082 to £11,812 pro rata).

Greenhaugh Primary School is a small, inclusive school in a beautiful, rural location, with enthusiastic and friendly children: hardworking staff and a supportive community of parents, carers and governors.

Further information about the school can be found on our website.

Our governors are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, forward thinking and highly motivated Clerical Officer to join their very successful team from Monday, 20th April 2026, subject to availability.

You will be required to take responsibility for the running of the administrative, financial and organisational processes within the school, be the welcoming face of the school and undertake all training to comply with this role, including around your safeguarding responsibilities.

This post is essential to ensure that the staff team is supported in providing a high quality education for our pupils.

• Be solution focused
• Have very good numeracy and literacy skills;
• Have NVQ level 4 in a relevant discipline or experience in relevant disciplines;
• Experience of managing and developing administrative systems;
• Effective use of specialist ICT packages;
• Good ICT and keyboard skills;
• Ability to work with children and adults;
• Ability to work as part of a team;
• Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
• Have a sense of humour and the ability to keep calm in a crisis.

This role offers flexible working hours within the school day and will be discussed at interview.

In return we can offer an exciting opportunity to be a part of our nurturing community where children thrive.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are invited for interview, you will be required to disclose convictions that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. Certain spent convictions and cautions will be ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed.

Full details on protected convictions and information about which convictions must be declared during job applications can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. You will be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

This role will include Regulated Activities and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure is required for this post.

Our Child Protection Policy can be found on our school website:

An online search will be carried out on shortlisted candidates, prior to interview.

Informal discussions or visits to the school prior to interview are encouraged. Please contact Clare Crow, Headteacher to arrange a visit. Tel:

Application forms can be downloaded from the school website and are also available from the school by telephoning the school office. A curriculum vitae will only be accepted alongside an application form.

Completed applications should be returned directly to the school either by post to Mrs Clare Crow, Greenhaugh Primary School, Greenhaugh, Hexham, NE481LX
or by email to admin@gree

Closing Date: 12pm on Monday 23rd February 2026

Interview Date: 4th March 2026

Headteacher:
Mrs Clare Crow, Greenhaugh Primary School, Greenhaugh, Hexham. NE48 1LX

e-mail: admin@gree

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