Hours: Permanent, full year, full time (37 hours/week)
Salary: Grade 4. Full year salary: £25,583
* Are you well organised, adaptable and with a keen eye for detail?
* Would you like to work in a busy Admin Team supporting students and staff in our popular school?
* Can you work accurately to deadlines while maintaining a flexible and good-humoured approach to your work?
About the role
The Admin Team at UCC are often the first contact visitors have with the school. They operate the Reception desk, welcome visitors, answer and direct phone calls and provide a full administrative service to the school. It’s a busy environment and will appeal to people who like their days to be different.
About you
To be successful, you will be an efficient, experienced administrator with sound written and verbal communication skills, good interpersonal skills and effective organisational skills; you should also be willing to learn on the job. Educated to at least GCSE level, you should have at least five GCSE (or equivalent) higher passes, including English and maths. We will provide full training for the successful candidate.
About Ullswater Community College
Ullswater Community College (UCC) is a happy school where students and staff expect to treat one another with respect. Following our Ofsted Good rating in April 2023, and being recognised as ‘Best Secondary School in Cumbria’ at the 2023 NewsQuest awards, our vision is to make sure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do.
We offer our non-teaching members of staff:
* Starting holiday allowance of 25 days, rising to 31 days after 5 years
* Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme – a defined benefit scheme with employee and employer contributions
* Membership of the Health Assured employee assistance programme.
* Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme.
* Help with eye tests
* A welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school culture
To apply
Please complete and return an application form and equalities and diversity form to hr@ullswatercc.co.uk:
* application form: UCC – job application form – 2025
* equalities and diversity form: Equalities and diversity form – 2025
Please see the job description for full details about the role and the person specification for an outline of the skills, experience and personal qualities the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
* job description: Administrative Support Personnel – job description – November 2025
* person specification: Administrative Support Personnel – person specification – 2025
We encourage applications from all members of society, regardless of background, gender, ethnicity, disability or age (as long as you’re over 18).
Closing date for applications: 12 noon Friday 7 November 2025
We will aim to hold interviews the following week
UCC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Employment at UCC is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; if they are disclosed, the school cannot take them into account.
Please note that we can contact only the successful applicants.
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