School Business Assistant - Part-time

Greenvale Primary School, Chatham

• Ref:MED887-2198-33S
• Posted:17/09/2025
• Pay:NJC C2 Range £28,598 - £36,363 FTE
• Start Date:Monday 3rd November
• App Close Date:30/09/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:Friday 3rd October

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At Greenvale our ethos is ‘Nurture – Inspire – Succeed’ and our school visions are based around our 6 Core Values which underpin all that we do and add to the success and inclusive nature of our school: 

Respect, Readiness, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Resilience and Reflectiveness 

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, highly organised and friendly School Business Assistant to join our dedicated administrative team. This is a demanding role that requires strong administrative skills. You will be an integral part of the school's daily operations, providing efficient administrative and financial support to the School Business Manager and Headteacher and wider school staff. 

Main duties and responsibilities: 

• Assist with the school's financial processes, including processing and placing purchase orders.
• Maintaining the school’s policy schedule, ensuring all policies are up to date and follow statutory guidance where necessary.
• Administration of recruitment processes.
• Organisation and booking of school visits.
• Support the administrative team with ad-hoc duties and provide cover during staff absences.
• Data Protection Administrator for the school. 

The successful candidate will have: 

• Proven experience of working in a busy admin or office role, preferably in a school setting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with all members of the school community.
• Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied workload, prioritise tasks and work to deadlines.
• A high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to act with tact, discretion and confidentiality.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience of SIMS is preferred.
• An understanding of Data Protection and GDPR. 

Greenvale Primary School is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhance DBS check, satisfactory references and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy can also be obtained from the school office upon request or from our website: https://www.greenvale.medway.sch.uk/ 

In line with KCSIE guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the school reserves the right to research shortlisted candidates on social media and the internet as part of our due diligence. The recruitment panel may take this information into consideration during the recruitment process. Any information will be treated as confidential and will only be used in relation for the post for which you have applied for. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Information about the school

Come and join our amazing school!

Pupils talk about their inclusive and welcoming school with great joy and enthusiasm. As one pupil commented to inspectors, ‘You will love it here too!’ Ofsted report November 2023.

Greenvale Primary School is a growing primary school in the heart of our local community in Chatham. Rated ‘Good’ in November 2023, we are lucky to have a staff of wonderfully inspiring and dedicated teachers, teaching assistants and support staff, who not only have high expectations in all areas of the curriculum, but are also supportive of every child's needs. We aim to ensure that our children have a 'can do' attitude towards learning, through an environment that enables them to feel happy, safe, valued and secure as they grow, learn and develop. We strive for a life-long love of learning.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Claire Saunders
• Address:Symons Avenue, Chatham, Kent, ME4 5UP
• Telephone: 01634 409 521
• Email: c.saunders@greenvale.medway.sch.uk

Fax: 01634 819 823

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