About Us

36 hours per week (8am to 4pm)

Permanent

Paddock is a popular, outstanding split site school, known for our excellent internal training programme to develop all staff to be experts.  Because of our substantial growth, an excellent opportunity has become available to join the Paddock Business & Operations team as an Admin Assistant.

You will be responsible under the instruction or guidance of senior staff to provide reception support and general administrative or financial support to the school, working across both sites.

Responsibilities:

•    Work as part of the reception team

•    Perform general clerical and administrative support for other areas of the business and operations department e.g. organise meetings, photocopying, filing, faxing, complete standard forms, respond to routine correspondence 

•    Maintain manual and computerised records and management information systems

•    Produce lists, information and data as required e.g. pupils / staff data

•    Undertake typing and word-processing and other IT based tasks

•    Sort and distribute mail

•    Undertake administrative procedures 

•    Maintain and collate pupil / staff reports

Required experience:

•    General reception, clerical, administrative and financial work as appropriate

The successful candidates will demonstrate excellent interpersonal relationships and be proud to work in a school that has the vision to Nurture, Inspire and Transform Lives.  

You should be: -

•    A team player;

•    Keen to contribute to school life

We offer: - 

•    An outstanding training programme 

•    A variety of career pathways 

•    Opportunities for promotion within the school

•    Opportunities to work with a multi-disciplinary team

•    Access to employee wellbeing scheme 

•    School Direct routes into teaching 

We offer excellent training and support along with a Pension scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and other well-being benefits.

We welcome visits to the school. Please contact recruitment@paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk to arrange a suitable time and date.

An information pack, including a Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded below.

Alternatively please contact the school for any further details by email recruitment@paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk.

Completed applications should be returned to the school either by email recruitment@paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk or posted to the Secondary School addressed for the attention of the HR Advisor.

Closing date: 17 September 2023 (at noon)

Interview dates: We advise the candidates to apply as soon as possible and reserve the right to interview before the closing date and the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Paddock School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

All posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Please note that we do not accept CVs.

Paddock Lower and Middle School

St Margaret’s Crescent

Putney

SW15 6HL

Tel: 020 8878 1521

Head of Lower School:  Deborah Dockery

Head of Middle School:  Lynette Martyn

Executive Headteacher: Sarah Santos

Website: https://www.paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk/

Paddock Upper School & Sixth Form

Priory Lane

Roehampton

SW15 5RT

Tel: 020 8878 1521

Head of Upper School: Robert Pearce

Executive Headteacher: Sarah Santos

Website: https://www.paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk/  

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils