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General Office Clerical Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 19 July 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 25 July 2025
Location: Brighouse, West Yorkshire, HD6 2NY
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 9abc4543-c201-470f-ad39-d01cddb15a8f

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

A General Office Clerical Assistant is required to join the School’s Main Office at Finkil Street. The main function of this post is to provide general administrative and clerical support within a busy school environment. Duties will include maintaining student records and undertaking a range of administrative tasks to support school operations. Applicants should have excellent communication and organisational skills, a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Experience with Bromcom or staff cover systems would be an advantage, but training will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the continued success of Brighouse High School. In March 2017 OFSTED recognised that we are a school which has high expectations and is uncompromising in working to meet the needs of individual pupils. Inspectors reported that “there is a strong sense of ‘togetherness’ across the school” and that pupils “feel part of a caring school community that is fully inclusive with a trusting ethos. Pupils feel valued as learners.

What the school offers its staff

What we can offer you:

•An opportunity to work in a happy school with strong relationships •Full support from a highly experienced and dedicated senior leadership team •Induction and mentoring from a welcoming whole staff body •A strong pastoral support framework and behaviour system to work within •CPD and early careers support •A range of colleague benefits including wellbeing and Employee Assistance programme, giving access to family healthcare, counselling and a range of other services

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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