Office Supervisor
| Posting date: | 17 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 February 2026 |
| Location: | Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 0JG |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | defbd29d-c7bf-4a61-8fbf-7076e81c1311 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
In this role, your duties and responsibilities will include providing a professional and confidential secretarial service for the school, including word processing of correspondence, reports, publications and other documents as required. You will have the opportunity to undertake recruitment and personnel administration, including completion of staffing forms, monthly payroll reconciliation, liaising with Education Personnel as appropriate and maintaining staff files, ensuring confidentiality with regard to such records. Field pay queries and liaise with the Payroll service. The successful candidate will oversee reception, making sure that visitors and callers are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with school procedures.
For a complete Job Description, Person Specification, and Candidate Briefing Pack, please view the attached documents. We recommend viewing these documents as they will guide you in preparing a strong application and help you understand what we’re looking for in an ideal candidate.
What the school offers its staff
We place learning at the heart of all our activities. Everyone is a learner and we encourage an ethos of openness, enquiry and learning together.We have a wealth of talent among our large staff, who are encouraged to develop their skills further and they are key to making learning fun.Pupils help to make Grove an exciting place to learn by being fully involved in generating ideas and making decisions together.Grove has many links with schools around the globe and this helps to inform attitudes about the world around us.We are investing in the future by ensuring that all pupils are computer literate and have access to new technologies where it enhances learning.
Links to international partner schools in countries of:
• The Gambia
• Poland
• France
• Spain
• Latvia
• China
• Australia
• New Zealand
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.
In this role, your duties and responsibilities will include providing a professional and confidential secretarial service for the school, including word processing of correspondence, reports, publications and other documents as required. You will have the opportunity to undertake recruitment and personnel administration, including completion of staffing forms, monthly payroll reconciliation, liaising with Education Personnel as appropriate and maintaining staff files, ensuring confidentiality with regard to such records. Field pay queries and liaise with the Payroll service. The successful candidate will oversee reception, making sure that visitors and callers are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with school procedures.
For a complete Job Description, Person Specification, and Candidate Briefing Pack, please view the attached documents. We recommend viewing these documents as they will guide you in preparing a strong application and help you understand what we’re looking for in an ideal candidate.
What the school offers its staff
We place learning at the heart of all our activities. Everyone is a learner and we encourage an ethos of openness, enquiry and learning together.We have a wealth of talent among our large staff, who are encouraged to develop their skills further and they are key to making learning fun.Pupils help to make Grove an exciting place to learn by being fully involved in generating ideas and making decisions together.Grove has many links with schools around the globe and this helps to inform attitudes about the world around us.We are investing in the future by ensuring that all pupils are computer literate and have access to new technologies where it enhances learning.
Links to international partner schools in countries of:
• The Gambia
• Poland
• France
• Spain
• Latvia
• China
• Australia
• New Zealand
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.