Senior Office Manager GR4 £33,366 to £40,476 36.5 hours per week plus Banked Hours ASTON TOWER COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL (Aston Tower Multi-Academy Trust) Upper Sutton Street, Aston, Birmingham, B6 5BE Tel: 0121 327 0339 Email: vacancies@astontower.bham.sch.uk Website: www.astontowerprimary.co.uk Headteacher: Jonathan Moore Applications are invited from candidates with the ability to lead and manage our administration team, to provide a high-quality administration service to the Head and Deputy, and assist the CFO/Business Manager with finance, HR and site management. The successful candidate should have relevant school administration experience and share our desire to maintain Aston Tower’s high standards. You will bring strong interpersonal and organisational skills, and be an effective line manager. You will have excellent IT skills, be well organised, have a professional approach to work and be able to prioritise to meet important deadlines. The role could provide the successful candidate with the potential for further promotion within our trust and career development. Aston Tower is a popular two-form entry multi-cultural school that serves a community which really values and supports our work. The school had a very successful Ofsted inspection in October 2024 judging its performance to be working at an outstanding level in all areas. We have friendly, responsive and enthusiastic children whose attitudes to learning were described as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted along with their ‘outstanding’ behaviour. Our staff team are skilled, caring and committed; trustees are highly supportive. The school is very well resourced. Our well-kept modern premises are set in spacious grounds which lend themselves to being further developed to promote our pupils’ learning. We opened a DfE designated resource base for SEND pupils with autism in February 2025. The application form and further details are available from our school website https://astontowerprimary.co.uk/job-vacancies This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check Aston Tower Multi-academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and individually take responsibility for doing so. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement of the role. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020, which means 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filtering Guide www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance