Higham Lane North Academy
Warwickshire
£21,565 - £22,397 per year
Salary:
Dependent on service and experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
03 November 2025
Apply by:
20 October 2025
Job overview
Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of School Administrator for an October / November 2025 start.
As School Administrator, you will be working in the busy Reception office providing clerical support for a wide range of tasks, operations and functions undertaken by the School.
General Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibility for others:
The post has some impact on the well-being of individuals or groups (i.e. physical, mental, social, health and safety).
Responsibility for staff:
The post has no or limited direct responsibility for supervising other staff though may be expected to demonstrate tasks or advise/guide new employees, work experience or trainees.
Responsibility for budget:
The post has no or limited direct responsibility for financial resources other than occasional handling of typically small amounts of cash.
Responsibility for physical resources:
The post has some direct responsibility for physical resources, involving the careful, accurate, confidential and secure handling and processing of information.
TYPICAL TASKS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To operate routine administrative systems and procedures to support the operations of the school .
Undertake routine clerical activities/duties e.g. photocopying, filing, email and text messages.
Deal with routine enquiries, providing general information about the school and its activities in person, by phone and email, text message or other appropriate forms of communication to students, parents/carers and/or staff.
Send out routine communications, issue reminders and chase responses.
Be a first point of contact for students and/or visitors to the site requiring help/support and referring them to other appropriate staff in school.
Undertake word processing, generating standard letters.
Receives some or all of parents/carers, contractors or similar, student visitors and deliveries/goods as well as dealing with associated administration (security badges, signing delivery notes).
Showing visitors around when required.
To collate, record, store and retrieve data and information as required.
Use spreadsheets, formulae and data summarising techniques to produce information for other colleagues.
Receive calls from parents, passing on messages to students, etc.
Liaise with third parties to the school e.g. other schools, suppliers, parents/carers and other bodies/organisations.
To organise meetings and events in liaison with other relevant officials and outside agencies / bodies as required.
What we offer
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
* A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
* A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
* A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
* Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
* Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
* Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
* The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
* A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
* The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
* Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
* A Gym Membership Scheme
* A Cycle to Work Scheme
* An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
* An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
* A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more
How to Apply
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school's website and email them to, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher on The closing date for applications is midday, Monday 20th October 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the 'Additional Information' section of the application form:
* Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.
Recruiter contact:
Email us
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About Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane North Academy
Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV11 6YN
United Kingdom
A brand new secondary free school following the model of Higham Lane School will open in Nuneaton in September 2025
We are hugely excited that the Secretary of State for Education has signed the Funding Agreement for Higham Lane North Academy and we are nowpreparing to open this new non-selective, state-funded 11-16 secondary free school in September 2025.
Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7 from September 2025 at a
state-of-the-art school
and community resource at the new
Milby Meadows neighbourhood at Top Farm in Weddington
. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 900-pupil school with 180 pupils in each year group from Year 7 to Year 11.
Established by Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane North Academy will benefit from fantastic collaboration with its sister school, Higham Lane School, a high-performing 11-18 comprehensive school, located approximately one mile away.
It will follow the same successful model for secondary education that has seen Higham Lane School judged as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2019 and as World Class in 2021, and will continue the tradition of high-quality educational provision, academic excellence, exceptional pastoral care and personal development in a school at the heart of its community.
HLNA's Headteacher
Mrs Kirstie Robinson
, previously Deputy Headteacher at Higham Lane School and responsible for the curriculum and delivering progress and attainment, started in post in January 2025. With achievements including securing the school's highest-ever progress scores for the past two years placing HLS within the top 6% of all state-funded schools in the country, her lead areas of teaching and learning being rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2019, spearheading the successful bid in 2021 for the school to secure World Class status and being part of the initial team that delivered the successful application for Higham Lane North Academy, HLNA couldn't be in a safer pair of hands for ensuring the effective implementation of our partner school's highly successful model and building exceptional educational experiences for our pupils from day one.
Our learning ethos is founded on the belief that there are no limits to the learning and development of each pupil. The cutting-edge facilities at this brand-new school will enable pupils to access not only the broad and balanced knowledge
curriculum
based on the proven Higham Lane School model but also an innovative education that will encompass digital media, computing, engineering, drama, music and art, with ample opportunity for sports recreation and education. An extended school day will provide access to a wide choice of enrichment activities. An enhanced
transition programme
will ensure pupils make a successful move from primary to secondary school and on to their post-16 option of choice.
We are working closely with the Department for Education and Warwickshire County Council to ensure the successful opening of this exceptional new provision and look forward to welcoming our founding families in September 2025.
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