Business Support Administrator

Start date 6th October 2025 – New role, 1 academic year due to budgetary funding Fixed Term Contract initially – 22 hours per week  (39 weeks)

The Governors and Senior Leaders at Mayfield School are looking to appoint, a new member to their existing Business Support Team. This role would support the School Business Manager with general school administration, this is to support our growing school numbers and to help keep the operations of the school streamlined and efficient by supporting and bringing additional capacity to the current Business Support Team. The successful candidate will work across both our school sites, working in the main admin office at our Whitehaven site Mondays and Wednesday, attending to live requests from school colleagues as well as helping with a range of admin tasks. On Fridays, the role is to support at our Cockermouth site covering the front office, which involves been the first point of call for any visitors to the school and assisting with the running of the school day operations for this site.

BS6 Salary: £25,584(A) FTE pro rata – £13.26 p/hr 22 hrs per week, 39 weeks per year. Term Time 

The main responsibilities of the role are:
•    Dealing with visitor inquiries, assisting with parent communication 
•    Assisting business support team with admin tasks required for school operations
•    Reacting to live issues to support teachers and pupils
•    Data entry and procedure logs to assist with school reporting on compliance 

A full job profile is available along with an application form, on the school website. For an informal chat please contact the School Business Manager, Sarah Barry.

Mayfield offers many opportunities for continuing professional development.

To apply, please complete the application form only which can be downloaded from the Mayfield School website.  www.mayfield.cumbria.sch.uk  CV’s WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED Completed Applications need to be return to recruitment@mayfield.cumbria.sch.uk

Mayfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out, references will be sought and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and other relevant pre-employment checks; including health and identity.

Closing date – 12 noon on Tuesday 26th August, 2025
Shortlisting - Wednesday 27th August, 2025
Interviews 1st September, 2025