School Administrator Apprentice
St Benedict's Catholic College
Essex
- Expired
- Salary:
- National Apprentice Living Wage rates
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- 01 September 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 August 2025
Job overview
Start date: Monday 1st September 2025 for the duration of 1 year and 6 months.
Start your admin career in a friendly and supportive school known for developing apprentices. You'll offer confidential and efficient administrative support within our school office, ensuring a courteous reception service. This is an ideal opportunity to grow your skills in a nurturing environment dedicated to your professional development.
The salary will be National Apprentice Living Wage rates.
The hours of work for the role will be 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, term time and staff training days, 44.6 paid weeks per year. Monday to Thursday 8.00 am – 4.00 pm and Friday 8.00 am – 3.30 pm.
- Experience working in a busy office environment
- Develop a wide variety of clerical and administrative tasks
- Develop skills around problem solving and prioritising
- Have the opportunity to gain excellent communication skills and you will make a difference to young people’s lives
- Dealing with face-to-face, telephone and email enquiries from visitors, staff and students
- Distributing post and telephone messages
- General administrative duties, including effective use of word processing and spreadsheet programmes to ensure the accurate production of documents, e.g. letters and student lists
- Using the college database and associated programmes
- Production of the college newsletter
- Preparing items sold by the college (e.g. revision books) for distribution
- Administering student lockers
- Ordering stationery for the administrative staff
- Undertaking student filing
- Providing first aid cover for the medical room assistant
- Assisting with the arrangements of the school's photographic sessions
- Participating in the performance and development review process, taking personal responsibility for the identification of learning, development and training opportunities in discussion with the line manager
- Complying with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role, for health & safety in the workplace
- Ensuring that all duties and services provided are in accordance with the school’s Equal Opportunities Policy
- English (grade Grade C or 4 or above)
- Maths (grade C or 4 or above)
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non-judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About St Benedict's Catholic College
About St Benedict's Catholic College
St Benedict’s Catholic College is a secondary school located in the ancient town of Colchester, Essex. Originally founded in 1963 as a secondary modern, St Benedict’s exists today as a co-educational voluntary-aided school.
It is the only Catholic secondary school in Colchester. With 900 students aged 11-16, St Benedict’s is a smaller than average secondary school.
Principal
Mrs Jo Santinelli
Values and vision
As a school in the Catholic tradition, St Benedict’s holds Catholic values at the heart of everything it does. The college has a dedicated chaplaincy office, with mass being offered to all students regularly and prayer taking place in form time every morning.
The college regularly organises retreats in order to encourage spiritual reflection and team-building. Students are well supported by the chaplaincy and pastoral teams. St Benedict’s has a strong reputation for academic excellence, and seeks to preserve this by offering a wide-ranging and well-taught curriculum.
Ofsted says
- St Benedict’s is a welcoming school with a strong ethos of caring for pupils and promoting academic achievement.
- It’s more than a school: it’s a community
- Pupils’ behaviour is typically good.
- There are strong relationships between staff and pupils.
- During social times the school is calm, and pupils take part in a range of activities.
- Classrooms are calm and focused places to learn.
- The school is well led and managed.
- Leaders at all levels want pupils to succeed academically.
Section 48 inspectors say
St Benedict’s is an outstanding Catholic school having continued to improve since the last inspection. These improvements are a result of outstanding leadership at all levels within the school community. The school provides exceptional care and support for students who thrive in this highly inclusive multifaith community which has Christ at the centre of all its work.
The strong and all-pervading Catholic ethos is underpinned by highly positive and supportive relationships between all members of the school community
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