Office Manager - The Kingsway School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
15 July 2025, 12.00pm 
Job Advert
Office Manager - The Kingsway School
Contract type: Term Time + 1 weeks, permanent
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Required from: September 2025
Salary: Grade 6 point 18-22 FTE £30,559- £32,654 (Pro rata £26,724-£28,556)
Closing date: Tuesday 15th July
Interview date: Thursday 17th July
Details of the Role
Are you a highly organised, proactive, and people-focused professional looking to make a real difference in a school setting?
The Kingsway School is seeking a dedicated and experienced Office Manager to lead our busy school office and ensure the smooth and efficient running of all administrative and operational functions.
This is a key role within our school, supporting staff, pupils, parents, and senior leaders while managing the daily logistics that keep our school running smoothly.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage the day-to-day running of the school office, ensuring a welcoming and efficient environment
• Line-manage office staff and oversee their workload and performance
• Lead on key administrative areas including admissions, school trips administration, ParentPay and FSM.
• Act as a key point of contact for parents, visitors, contractors, and the wider school community
• Work closely with the Headteacher and SLT on operational planning, diary management, and communication
What We’re Looking For:
• Previous experience in office or business management (school experience highly desirable)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Strong IT skills and experience using school management systems (e.g. SIMS, Arbor, or equivalent)
• A calm, professional manner with the ability to prioritise and manage competing demands
• A strong understanding of safeguarding and confidentiality
• A flexible, can-do attitude and commitment to the values of our school community
Please send your application to the recruitment team no later than Tuesday 15th July 2025. Interviews will take place on 17th July 2025.
Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).