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General Admin (Maternity Cover)

• Salary: Grade 2 - Points 3 - 8 (FTE: £25,614 -£27,709) 

Actual: £22,425 - £24,259

• Working time: Fixed Term (expected till around July 2027)
• Hours: Full Time, 36.5 hours per week
• Closing date: 15th November 26
• Start date: December 2026

Are you an organised, enthusiastic and approachable individual looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in a busy academy environment?

We are seeking to appoint a professional, proactive and flexible General Administrator to join our friendly and dedicated team on a maternity cover basis.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with excellent communication and organisational skills who takes pride in delivering a high standard of administrative and customer service support. As a key member of the academy team, you will play an important role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of our administrative and reception functions, providing a welcoming and professional first point of contact for students, parents, visitors and colleagues.

Working as part of a supportive, motivated and forward-thinking team committed to continuous improvement, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing a welcoming and professional reception service, responding to telephone and face-to-face enquiries in a friendly and efficient manner.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date student records, ensuring all relevant paperwork and documentation is filed appropriately and within required timescales.
• Managing the academy's reception desk and front-of-house provision, taking responsibility for either morning or afternoon reception duties.
• Supporting the safety, security and safeguarding of the academy by monitoring visitor access and ensuring all relevant procedures are followed, including visitor sign-in, DBS checks and the issuing of identification badges and lanyards.
• Acting as a key point of contact for parents and carers, responding to incoming enquiries and ensuring queries are directed to the appropriate member of staff.

We welcome applications from individuals whose skills, experience and personal values align with those outlined in the person specification and who are excited by the opportunity to contribute positively to our academy community.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Harborne Academy is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process across the academy, which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.  Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.

As part of our recruitment checks, an online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process, and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.

For more information and to apply, contact the academy on 0121 464 2737 or email recruitment@harborneacademy.co.uk. Please apply directly on the academy website (Job Vacancies - Harborne Academy) and email the recruitment inbox with your application.

If you would like to visit the academy, please contact the HR Manager via laura.harris@harborneacademy.co.uk

Closing date: 15^th November @ 15:00

Interviews: TBC with successful candidates

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