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Administrative Assistant

Job Summary

• Contract Type: Permanent
• Working Pattern: Full time
• Advert Start Date: 29/05/2025
• Advert End Date: 08/06/2025 23:59
• Salary: N4 £25,584 - £26,409 per annum
• Job Category: Schools - Support
• Vacancy ID: 281283
• Employment Location: Benfield Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 4NU
• Number of posts: 1
• Closing date: 8 Jun

Further Information

We are seeking to appoint an Admin Assistant to play a key role in supporting our Benfield school to deliver a high-quality service. The successful candidate will have excellent experience in customer service dealing with pupils, parents and members of the community both face to face and via telephone addressing queries from a variety of sources.

Working in a busy office environment, the post holder will provide a comprehensive administrative service to the school by maintaining office systems and diaries, collating pupil reports, attending meetings to take minutes and ensuring office machinery and stationery is ordered in line with purchasing procedures.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has:

• Experience of dealing with the public, face to face and via telephone.
• Experience in using all types of office equipment.
• A good general education demonstrating numeracy and literacy.
• Has a proactive approach to prioritising workload.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to suit a variety of audiences.

Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access.

Benfield School is a fully inclusive 11-16 school it has a distinct ethos with strong sense of support and loyalty. Excellent relationships between students and staff and a purposeful learning environment is evident in lessons and around the modernised site. With this foundation, students have a strong platform to be confident, happy and are able to achieve their aspiration effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.

In return we offer:

• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
• A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
• The benefit of working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
• Membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured - the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
• Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.

Interested in applying? If you share our passion and believe you can make a difference, please read the accompanying job description and person specification and complete an application form by clicking 'apply now' no later than midnight on Sunday 8th June 2025.

NEAT Academy Trust are committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.

Supporting documents

• A1017 Administrative Assistant Job Description.pdf (86.36 KB)
• Administrative Assistant Person Specification.pdf (185.81 KB)
• NEAT Equalities Monitoring Form (June 2023).docx (68.41 KB)

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• Experience of dealing with the public, face to face and via telephone.
• Experience in using all types of office equipment.
• A good general education demonstrating numeracy and literacy.
• Has a proactive approach to prioritising workload.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to suit a variety of audiences.
  
  Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access
Benfield School is a fully inclusive 11-16 school it has a distinct ethos with strong sense of support and loyalty. Excellent relationships between students and staff and a purposeful learning environment is evident in lessons and around the modernised site. With this foundation, students have a strong platform to be confident, happy and are able to achieve their aspiration effective education research and implement it in everyday practice. In return we offer:
• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
• A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
• The benefit of working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
• Membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured - the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
• Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.