Senior Business Administrator

Posting date:	08 October 2025
Salary:	£26,588 per year
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 November 2025
Location:	Kidderminster, DY11 7TE
Company:	The Cambian Group
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	21114

Summary

Senior Business Administrator

Cambian New Elizabethan School, Kidderminster

Salary £26,588 per annum

40 hours per week

Please note, vacancy may close prior to the closing date if a large number of applications are received.

Cambian New Elizabethan School is a day school for 45 students aged 7 – 19 that offers outstanding opportunities for boys and girls with a diagnosis of communication difficulties, autism spectrum conditions, complex needs and challenging behaviour.

Set in large, private grounds amid a campus of historic buildings in rural Hartlebury, Worcestershire, Cambian New Elizabethan School is a relaxing place of learning, where young people receive the specialist education and therapeutic approach they need.

The Senior Business Administrator will be responsible for managing all aspects of human resources as well as manage the case work for the case workload for the school’s DSL and DDSL..

Main Responsibilities -

• To ensure staff compliance with all company policies and procedures.
• To ensure payroll is completed accurately and submitted to deadlines monthly.
• To liaise with the recruitment and onboarding team to facilitate the recruitment and onboarding process
• To line manage the admin team and develop its effectiveness. This involves supporting other members of the team and helping to build positive relationships.
• Provide support with sickness absence cases for both short and long term sickness and manage and support other employee related cases including return to work interviews.
• To manage the personnel function of the school including the Single Central Register
• To liaise with Local Authorities about pupil transport
• Support the school’s internal and external Safeguarding audits and to triage cases for the DSL’s.
• To maintain student Safeguarding files, keeping them up to date with relevant information from the school’s DSLs.
• Oversee all HR matters and liaise with Cambian HR business partners

The contribution of this role:

By effectively carrying out this role, you will make a significant contribution to establishing and maintaining a well organised admin team, to building positive relationships and effective communications, and to providing a reliable, competent service both to employees and to people outside of the company. This will make an important contribution to achieving the Cambian Group’s goals.

Person Specification -

For new appointments, a selection panel will assess each of the points below against what you have written on the application form – so, as a job applicant, you should explain by using examples from previous jobs, voluntary work or whilst you were in education, how you match these points.

• To have excellent attendance and punctuality
• You will understand and abide by the highly confidential nature of many aspects of this role.
• Knowledge of safe working practice
• To contribute effectively with the school’s DSLs
• Have the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst managing conflicting priorities
• Ability to produce good quality work and maintain positive relationships with other staff whilst
• You will need to be a highly organised individual with great interpersonal skills
• Ability to deal appropriately with new or difficult situations

Experience and Qualifications -

• Relevant experience and/or qualification in HR preferred
• Relevant experience and/or qualification in finance

We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer. And we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.