Senior Office Manager

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Job reference: 242730
Date posted: 27/03/2025
Application closing date: 24/04/2025
Location: Barnsley
Salary: £32,963.72 - £36,947.67 Annually (Actual), FTE £37,035-£41,511.
Package: Term time plus 10 days.
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
Job category/type: Full time, School, School Support, Term time

Job Specification and Supporting Information: Senior-Office-Manager-Job-Spec-513-(1)-823.docx

Wellspring Academy Trust is a growing Multi-Academy Trust with thirty-three schools, making the Trust one of the largest in the North. We are committed to making a difference to the lives and life chances of the young people and the communities we serve and believe in the potential of our team to achieve remarkable things.

Purpose of the post:
To manage the areas of:

• People: line manage relevant employees.
• Marketing and school administration.
• General administration management to meet the needs of the academy to enhance teaching and learning.

Main Duties:

• To ensure the smooth running of at least two Academy Offices.
• To contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
• To appreciate and support the role of other professionals.

Summary:
The Senior Office Manager will:

• Support the Executive Principal with the logistics of diaries and smooth running of events for the academy.
• Be routinely involved in more complex day-to-day issues and one-off projects.
• Supervise and train administration employees who input records and produce standard documents.
• Solve problems and set up processes.
• Handle difficult/sensitive situations without supervision.
• Prioritise and manage own workload and supervise the workload of others.
• Be able to work under limited supervision.
• Be proactive and use initiative.
• Contribute to the management of change within the school.
• Input at a high level of responsibility for the successful and smooth running of the school in many areas, particularly the supervision of all clerical support, statistical control, and pupil welfare.

The Senior Office Manager will be expected to undertake all of the above for prolonged periods (for all or most of the day) in a complex setting with conflicting demands.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates prior to attendance at interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification, and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post. We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived/worked overseas in the last five years, please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

Visits to the school are recommended and welcomed. Please contact Catherine Batley on 07702617415 or email catherine.batley@wellspringacademies.org.uk to arrange.

Any applicants need to apply through my new term: mynewterm.com.

Wakefield Council, Wakefield One, PO Box 700, Wakefield, WF1 2EB
Tel. 0345 8 506 506