Office Manager
Elm Academy
Bournemouth
- £30,638.22 - £33,170.74 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 26/08/2025
- Apply by:
- 3 July 2025
Job overview
The Role
Are you looking for a new challenge? We are seeking to recruit a professional, reliable and versatile Office Manager whose role is to provide (and lead on the development of) an efficient, effective and confidential administrative service within Elm Academy.
This role will include: overseeing the daily administration of the academy office including line managing, training and developing the administration team, being responsible for all administrative, admissions and organisational processes within the academy, being responsible for recruitment and payroll and sickness absence administration, keeping personnel records up to date and providing assistance to the principal and the academy's leadership team.
In order to be successful in this role you will:
- Be enthusiastic, motivated, focused, professional, personable and resilient
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have an ability to organise and prioritise your work, working to deadlines
- Be competent in the use of Microsoft packages Word and Excel and Management Information Systems (for example, Arbor, SAMPeople). Minute taking experience is desirable but training can be provided.
- Be able to work successfully with a range of people, including the wider school community
- Promote the vision and values of Authentic Education at all times
What We have to Offer:
- A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
- A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education.
- All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.
- Strong potential for career progression.
- A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing with a dedicated Wellbeing Champion.
- An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
- Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced price corporate gym membership through BH Live.
- A competitive pension through Teachers’ Pensions or The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff.
Should you wish to arrange a visit or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Sara Goldsmith, HR Academy Lead, at sara.goldsmith@ea.weareauthentic.education.
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About Elm Academy
- Elm Academy
- Holloway Avenue, Bournemouth
- Dorset
- BH11 9JN
- United Kingdom
Elm Academy is a 480 PAN - pupil school which is currently two form entry. Elm joined Ambitions Academy Trust in 2017 and educates Boys and Girls aged between 4 and 11. We have a Nursery onsite called Little Ambers for children aged between 3 and 5.
It is our aim that pupils leave Elm Academy as literate, numerate, confident young people with high aspirations, independent learning skills and a sense of moral responsibility and an appetite for future learning.
At Elm Academy, every child is important and deserves success. We will support to provide a safe learning environment and will nurture your children helping them to build high esteem and encouraging them to achieve their full potential. We aim to build close relationships with each child and adults in our school community and recognise that each child is a unique and precious individual.
At Elm Academy the curriculum will be taught with the consideration of the needs of all learners. Our curriculum will be exciting and will inspire children to nurture a passion for learning. The curriculum provides the perfect mix of knowledge, creativity and skills development to promote excellence and enjoyment of learning. We believe that exciting, engaging lessons, adapted individually to each child’s needs are the best way to ensure every child succeeds. Reading, Writing and Maths are taught daily in our school, ensuring that all children develop the core key skills they will need. These core skills are then applied in other subjects, giving children opportunities to refine, practise and master their knowledge in practical and engaging contexts.
Our Vision.
To ensure outstanding progress for all learners by holding high expectations and challenging all pupils for academic, creative, cultural and social accomplishments with a broad, vibrant and balanced curriculum.
Elm Academy work on the principal that:
“………… the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers.”
Sir Michael Barber
Our Ethos.
Elm Academy demands high expectations for all. In everything Elm Academy does we always refer back to our mantra that encapsulates the belief that Elm Academy must have outstanding teaching and achievement.
A culture of high expectation leads to the highest achievers as we all thrive to better ourselves. Children and staff are challenged and supported to get the best possible outcomes. Children, with the support of their teacher, set themselves goals and targets which they then challenge themselves to meet.
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