Vacancies
Information and Supporting Documents for all Job Applicants
Please download and read the documents below to find out more about our school
Our School: A Letter from the Headteacher
Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy
Administration Assistant
Deadline: Thursday 11th September 2025
Shortlisting: Friday 12th September 2025
Interviews: Tuesday 16th September 2025
About the role
Are you looking for the next step in your career, a new challenge and opportunity to widen the positive impact you have?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Administration Assistant to join our School Support Team in September 2025.
You will find more information below and in the attached information about the role.
We look forward to welcoming an application from you.
About the candidate
The most important thing to us, is that we find the right person for our children, team and community.
You will be passionate about making a difference and share our belief in the importance of relationships and our core values of: respect, inclusion and growth.
You will want to work in a large, diverse, urban primary school and understand the wonderful and unique opportunities and challenges this can bring.
What can we offer you?
- The opportunity to have impact within a large and diverse primary school.
- A school committed to wellbeing of all staff - evidenced through our actions, provision, policies and systems.
- Our children are the highlight of our school and there is something very special about them all.
- An incredibly supportive and effective governing body.
- A strong, committed and collaborative leadership team including senior and middle leaders with a distributed leadership model.
- An inclusive, warm and welcoming team of staff – from our teachers and TAs through to admin, premises, cleaning and lunch time staff.
- Parents / carers and wider community who are respectful, positive about school and from very diverse backgrounds.
About us
Our vision and mission statement is: Making a difference and achieving excellence for every child.
Our school values are growth, respect and inclusion. These are incredibly important to us and shape our provision for all pupils, staff and the wider community. We are proud of our relational approach which underpins the ‘Chapel Street Way’. Visitors to our school comment on the warm, welcoming environment and nurturing relationships. Our commitment to wellbeing, equality and improvement is strong and can be seen through our actions at all levels across school.
You will find more information about our school in the letter from our Headteacher on our vacancies page, and on our school website.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children is our highest priority at Chapel Street Community Primary School – we work together to move beyond compliance to a culture of excellence in relation to safeguarding and this includes implementing robust Safer Recruitment practices, without exception.
Prior to appointment, all relevant and necessary safeguarding checks (including online checks of publicly available information for shortlisted candidates) will be undertaken. The job description and person specification for this post make clear the safeguarding requirements and responsibilities of the post.
As this post involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is exempt from the Rehabilitation of the Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and will require an Enhanced DBS Check prior to employment. If the role is exempt, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed, and if they are disclosed, we cannot take them into account. You can find further information about protected and filtered offences on this link. We would like to make clear that it is an offence to apply for any role that involves regulated activity if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
You will find below further information in relation to safeguarding at Chapel Street Community Primary School, including a link to our relevant policies.
Safeguarding at Chapel Street Community Primary School
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy
Policy on employing ‘ex offenders’
Keeping Children Safe in Education – Part 3: Safer Recruitment
NSPCC Safer Recruitment information
Other information
The following links will take you to our privacy notice for job applicants and other vacancies we are currently recruiting:
Inclusion Assistant Headteacher and SENCO
Inclusion Assistant Headteacher and SENCO
Full time and permanent
L4 - L8
Are you looking for the next step in your career, a new challenge and opportunity to widen the positive impact you have?
Following the promotion of our current Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion to a Deputy Headteacher in Specialist Provision, we are delighted to offer a vacancy to join our Senior Leadership Team from January 2026, or sooner if possible, as our Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion.
The most important thing to us, is that we find the right person for our children, team and community.
You will be passionate about making a difference and share our belief in the importance of relationships and our core values of: respect, inclusion and growth.
You will want to work in a large, diverse, urban primary school and understand the wonderful and unique opportunities and challenges this can bring.
Applications are invited from experienced teachers who are successful leaders (at either a senior or middle leadership level) for this exciting role in our school. You must have a proven and demonstrable track record of raising pupil achievement and previous experience at a senior leadership level or substantial experience at a middle leadership level. You might be an experienced Assistant Headteacher and / or SENCO within a smaller primary school or an experienced phase lead / SENCO within a large primary school – either way, you are looking for the next step in your career, a new challenge and opportunity to widen the positive impact you have through excellent leadership and managemenT.
What can we offer you?
The opportunity to have impact within a large and diverse primary school.
A school committed to wellbeing of all staff - evidenced through our actions, provision, policies and systems.
Our children are the highlight of our school and there is something very special about them all.
An incredibly supportive and effective governing body.
A strong, committed and collaborative leadership team including senior and middle leaders with a distributed leadership model.
An inclusive, warm and welcoming team of staff – from our teachers and TAs through to admin, premises, cleaning and lunch time staff.
Parents / carers and wider community who are respectful, positive about school and from very diverse backgrounds.
You will find more information about our school in the attached letter from our Headteacher and accompanying information specific to this role.
We look forward to welcoming an application from you.
Closing Date: 9:00am on Tuesday 7th October
Shortlisting: Tuesday 7th October
Interview: Tuesday 14th October
Start Date: 1st January 2026 or ASAP
Information about post - Inclusion AHT
Inclusion AHT and SENCO job description and person specification
