Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time - term time plus specified days
Advert Start Date:
20/02/2025
Advert End Date:
06/03/2025 23:59
Salary:
£28,163 - £30,060 (actual salary £24,697 - £26,360)
Job Category:
Schools - Support
Employment Location:
Callerton Academy, Blandford Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BT
Further Information
This school has Academy status and is part of The Gosforth Group; the employer will be the Multi Academy Trust.
Callerton Academy
Blandford Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3BT
Interview Date: 17/03/2025
Start Date: April 2025
Contract Term: TTO plus 5 additional days
ABOUT THE ACADEMY
Callerton Academy is new secondary school that opened in September 2021 as one of two new schools within Gosforth Group. Our principal aim is to encourage high expectations and high standards of achievement, both academic and personal. We are driven by a desire to support young people to create their future and be successful in all they do. Our values embrace honesty, trust, reliability, respect for the legitimate rights of others, care for every member of society, regard for the environment, and kindness towards other people. We have high expectations of both ourselves and our students. Our exceptional, highly skilled, and dedicated staff strive to develop aspirational and confident young people who have a lifelong love of learning. Currently, we are based in a state-of-the-art building in Newcastle’s Grainger Town with great links to metro and bus transport, until we move into our new school building located in Westerhope, which opens to students in September 2025, serving around 1,200 students from Year 7 to Year 11. Callerton Academy is an exciting and thriving secondary school where staff are highly valued and invested in to be able to become exceptional practitioners.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a PA to the Principal to join the Support Staff team at Callerton Academy. You will provide a key role in supporting the Principal, including providing ‘secretarial’ duties such as diary management and liaising with member of the MAT’s governance.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- A reliable and trustworthy person with excellent time-management skills
- A self-motivated and industrious person
- Attention to detail
- Previous experience of working in a school environment is desirable but not essential
- Excellent ICT skills, ideally with a good working knowledge of SIMS and other school-based software.
- Superb ‘customer care’ and an excellent communicator
- An effective team player
- Excellent written and oral communication
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- A competitive salary
- Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals
- Enthusiastic and motivated students
- An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development
- A school with its community at heart
- An exciting programme of staff well-being activities
- Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, or you are unable to complete the online application form and require this in another format please contact us by email: hrcallerton@gosforthgroup.org.uk or telephone: 0191 285 1000.
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Following the shortlisting process, where applicable, candidates who attend interview will be reimbursed reasonable expenses for travel and accommodation.
The Trust is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Safeguarding Information
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide and you can view our Policy on the Employment of Ex-offenders here.
Gosforth Group are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. References will be requested prior to interview for those candidates shortlisted. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, along with other relevant pre-employment checks.