Isle of Wight Council

Are you a highly motivated team player? Committed to promoting high standards of attainment and behaviour for all children?

We are the school for you!

Holy Cross Catholic Primary School is looking to recruit an experienced Office Administrator to join our wonderful school. We seek to appoint a highly motivated and methodical candidate to support the administrative needs of our school. The successful candidate will be confident, proactive, understand conflicting demands and working to deadlines, and will complement the professional work of our dedicated staffing team.

Key skills will include effective and efficient communication, ability to maintain accurate records with financial processes and safeguarding, and ability to provide the utmost professionalism and confidentiality in all areas of your work.

Prior experience in working within education will be advantageous.

Tours of our school are encouraged, and we would relish the opportunity to show you around our beautiful environment. Please call the school office to make an appointment 01983 292885.

Application packs are available through the school website at -http://www.holycrossrcpri.iow.sch.uk/web/vacancies


We can’t wait to meet you!

Holy Cross is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. References will be taken prior to interview.

This School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

PLEASE NOTE: Not all school staff are employed directly by the Isle of Wight Council, you can ask on application who the employer for this role will be.

Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Island here.

The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the Unacceptable Behaviour Policy, Employee Code of Conduct and Behaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.

The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

This role falls within the strategic partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council. The employer will be the Isle of Wight Council and employment is on Isle of Wight terms and conditions. Hampshire County Council has delivered, on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council, all of its children’s services functions and will continue to do so until 2023. The original five-year partnership arrangement under direction of the Secretary of State finished in 2018 but has been extended voluntarily by both local authorities for a further five years.

The management reporting line for this role is ultimately through Hampshire County Council Children’s Services Director/Assistant Director and managers who take operational responsibility for children’s services.

This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.