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Benedict Biscop C.E Academy are searching for a keen admin apprentice to join their busy reception team. Apply now if you feel you can make a difference at their school while working towards a qualifcation!
Requirements
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
- GCSE in: Maths (grade 4)
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
Responsibilities
- Providing general reception and clerical duties, including answering telephones, taking messages and responding to enquiries, photocopying, maintaining office systems, electronic and paper filing, checking identities, data entry, receiving and dispatching post and responding to ad hoc queries from a range of stakeholders as required.
- Support with administrative functions covering operational aspects of the Trust such as data protection, health and safety, catering and governance as directed by the Chief Operating Officer.
- Assisting with a range of HR tasks such as payroll processing and recording, contract management and staff correspondence.
- Updating electronic personnel files, support administration for recruitment.
- Managing data both manually and electronically, including the collecting and recording of data. Compiling and presenting the data in a reader-friendly way using various software
- Undertaking word-processing and other IT-based tasks on systems including Microsoft 365 and Teams, Sims, Every and other relevant systems.
- To be enthusiastic in developing your own expertise and skills to ensure all administrative systems in the Trust run effectively.
- Exercising confidentiality and discretion at all times, having due regard to the Trust and school-based policies with respect to confidentiality of personal data.
- Assisting with communication across the Trust, including newsletters and brochures.
- Attendance at and participation in training and development activities and schemes of assessment, professional development and review.
- Representing the Trust by attending meetings and liaising and communicating with colleagues in the Trust, the academies, parents/carers, outside agencies and other relevant bodies.
- Providing support for the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Finance Officer, Directors and the schools within the Trust.
- Carrying out any other duties appropriate to the grade of the post, which the Chief Operating Officer or Director of People and Resource Management may direct from time to time.
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Benefits
- Wage: £15,392 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
- National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Minimum wage rates
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship.
- Progression for the right candidate.
Application Process
- Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 8 July 2026)
- After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.
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About Benedict Biscop C.E Academy
Benedict Biscop C.E. Academy is a Church of England school within the Diocese of Durham and serves the Wearmouth (Sunderland) Deanery. The Academy was built in 1972 and opened as a Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School. It is an above average sized primary school with over 330 pupils on roll currently. We provide education for children from 3 to 11 years. The Academy’s standard admission number was changed for September 2021 to 45, following an extension of the school provision. Over the 6 years following the extension, our pupil numbers have increased by 15 pupils every year, to create a one and a half form entry school.
The school became an Academy in 2012, and a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) – The Northern Lights Learning Trust in 2016. In 2021, we were awarded the lead school status in the Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead Teaching School Hub [Northern Lights South Tyne and Wear Teaching School Hub]. We were also successfully recognised as one of the DFE Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs (Autumn 2022), highlighting our successful practice in Early Years provision.
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Benedict Biscop CE Academy achieved an OUTSTANDING judgement in all areas in its recent Ofsted inspection [October 2024] and also an successful judgement for their last SIAMS inspection in April 2025. We hold several awards, recognising our excellence, including the Platinum Primary Science Quality Mark, Anti-bullying Platinum Charter Mark, Platinum Games Award, Design and Technology Mark, Rights Respecting Gold Award, both the Early Years Basic Skills Award and whole school Basic Skills Award, Gold Arts Mark and many more.
The Academy is designed in three blocks of teaching areas [Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2] separated by a central hall. As the increased PAN moves through the school, mixed age classes will be incorporated into the school structure.
The areas of the Academy are very closely linked and staff know all the children through daily contact. In mixed year groups, pupils are grouped by age to ensure a fair and consistent approach [as agreed in the Academy’s extension consultation process].
Each class has its own teacher who is responsible for general progress across the curriculum and for pastoral care.
The Academy has partnerships with a school in Harbin, China and through European Comenius Awards we have developed links with schools in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria. This is developing global links and an understanding of our diverse culture.
https://www.benedictbiscopacademy.co.uk/
Contact
- The contact for this apprenticeship is: GATESHEAD COUNCIL
- The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038832.
Disability Confident A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
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