Secretarial Assistant - St Walburga's Catholic Primary School

About the role

St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School are looking for a highly motivated team member with the skills and experience required to join the office in this highly successful school. The successful applicant will be reliable, have good organisational skills, be confident in dealing with people and able to operate using their own initiative. Experience working in a busy office environment and good IT skills are essential.

Required as soon as possible for a fixed term contract until 31.8.27. Part time up to 34 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only. Start time from 8.00am until 4.30pm approximately. Slight variations may be considered.

Salary Grade 3, points 4 - 6. Salary Range FTE £26,017- £26,847 (Pro rata) subject to experience. Part time actual starting salary £19,950.

Closing date is 12 noon, Thursday 15th October 2026.

Applicants must be willing to support the school's Christian ethos.

Further Information

St Walburga's School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ's guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

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