Southfield School for Girls
Northamptonshire
Salary:
Orbis pay scale 7 to 10 (£24,310 - £25,444 FTE), actual pro rata salary £20,564.29 – £21,523.08
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 October 2025
Apply by:
8 September 2025
Job overview
Administration Assistant
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday to Thursday 8.00am – 4.00pm, Friday 8.00am – 3.30pm. Additional hours may be required.
Weeks: 190 days per year (37.6 weeks of school term time plus 2 days)
Holiday: Pro rata entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays taken during periods of school closure
Salary: Orbis pay scale 7-10 (£24,310 - £25,444FTE), actual pro rata salary £20,564.29 – £21,523.08
Pension: Generous local government pension scheme from day 1 of employment
Are you an organised, adaptable, and proactive administrator looking for your next challenge?
Join Orbis Education Trust as our new Administration Assistant and become part of a supportive, collaborative team in a thriving environment.
The responsibilities of the role will range from assisting in planning and executing leadership diaries and events to supporting project management and data analysis software. The role is varied and fast-paced, so you'll need to be adaptable and organised.
The successful candidate will be a great communicator, with excellent IT skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. The role will require someone who is confident at managing data and will need to familiarise themselves with the project management software.
Why join us:
* We invest in and support our aspirant and highly skilled staff, making it easy to access opportunities for continued professional development.
* Our safe and nurturing environment enables staff to thrive.
* We are a collaborative team working across the school and with wider Trust colleagues – sharing ideas, spreading best practice, supporting and challenging, and bringing out our very best
Ethical leadership is at the core of all decision making within the Trust. As such, staff are valued, treated with respect and afforded a diverse range of opportunities that come with professional trust. We place significant emphasis on working collegiately as a staff to share our expertise and subsequently enhance the learning experience with our students. Every member of the staff has the opportunity for professional development while working with us. With our trust growing, we are likely to have many more career development opportunities coming up in future.
To apply for this role, please visit the Southfield School vacancies page on our website or apply through the My New Term link found within the Applicant Info Pack attached.
Please note the school cannot accept CVs.
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday, 8th September 2025. Provisional interview dates, 11th and 12th September 2025.
If this role attracts sufficient interest before closing date, we may decide to close and interview this vacancy at an earlier date, so an early application is advised. If you want more info about the role, please contact us at or
Orbis Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to undergo enhanced DBS clearance. The school is committed to Equal Opportunities in Employment.
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About Southfield School for Girls
Southfield School for Girls
Lewis Road, Kettering
Northamptonshire
NN15 6HE
United Kingdom
Southfield School is a girls-only, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school with co-educational sixth form situated in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
The school first opened in 1976 as an amalgamation of Kettering High School for Girls and Rockingham Road Senior Girls School. It fought off closure declarations from the local authority and went on to thrive, gaining specialist sports status in 2004 and science college status in 2009. In 2021 Southfield School became part of Orbis Education Trust which comprises of:
* Southfield School, 11-18 years of age, single sex (mixed sixth form), 1,200 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, with outstanding features (April 23).
* Kingsthorpe College, 11-18 years of age, mixed sex, 1,500 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, December 2019).
* A third school will soon join the Orbis family: Hanwood Park School, 900 place secondary school.
Headteacher
Scott Nevett
Values and vision
Southfield aims to provide for the future needs of our students. Careers and types of employment opportunities are evolving and changing continually. Some are yet to be created and so we see it as our obligation to prepare our students to be competitive in anticipation of the unknown. Therefore, our strong focus on academic attainment is equalled by our commitment to develop transferable skills and personal characteristics through the many opportunities we provide.
We provide an education that prepares our young people for a future in which they will need to be adaptable, resourceful and ethical in facing complex challenges. Being a Southfield student will mean the chance to be successful and have a positive influence on the global community. We aim for all of our students to be able to make an impact and leave a positive imprint on the world.
We nurture our students with the future in mind today.
Our shared values of Optimism, Resilience, Balance, Individuality and Synergy.
Ofsted report
As you will read, we continue to be a good school with two aspects of the inspection judgements deemed to be 'Outstanding'. The first is the superb Personal Development our students receive, which includes opportunities such as; our bespoke Healthy Living and form time curriculums, careers guidance, our enrichment and electives programme, clubs, trips, DofE, and the CCF. The second area is the exemplary Sixth Form provision we provide for all of our Post-16 students.
We are immensely proud of the wealth of positive aspects of our school highlighted in the report and would like to thank the whole school community for their continued support and positive engagement with our journey.
Even though we are proud of how this report shows the best of Southfield, we are not complacent. It goes without saying that everyone involved with the school wants to continue moving the school forward, positively, with high expectations across the board.
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