Specialist Administrator

Are you a highly organised, proactive administrative professional looking to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people? Cape Cornwall School is seeking a dedicated Specialist Administrator to join our supportive and collaborative organisation. In this vital role, you will play a crucial part in the day-to-day life of the school, ensuring smooth administrative operations that directly support teaching and learning across Cornwall.

About the Role

As a Specialist Administrator, you will manage a variety of responsibilities depending on the unique needs and size of your school's team. Your role will focus on one or more specialist administrative areas, which may include:

Administration: Provide professional and confidential administrative services, manage student records on Arbor, coordinate pupil admissions and leavers, maintain the school website, and assist with marketing and school communications.

Finance & Payroll: Collate and produce monthly payroll documents (overtime, expenses, sickness) for submission via The Vault, manage local school purchasing, code income, and administer parent payments via ParentPay or Arbor Pay.

Attendance Support: Work closely with the pastoral team and families to monitor attendance, identify absence patterns, and hold supportive yet challenging conversations with kindness and empathy. To work directly with identified students and their families to improve attendance and engagement with school, particularly for those students from a disadvantaged background.

Staff Cover Coordination: Manage daily cover arrangements for absent staff, deploy cover supervisors or supply teachers, and provide comprehensive inductions for new supply staff.

Personnel & HR: Act as a first point of contact for staff HR inquiries, coordinate new-starter inductions, support recruitment processes, maintain personnel files, and assist with the Single Central Record (SCR).

For information regarding the role, please view the full job description attached.

What We Are Looking For

To succeed in this role, you should bring a blend of administrative expertise and a strong commitment to supporting our school community.

Essential Requirements:

GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above.

An NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration or equivalent experience in a relevant administrative role.

Excellent IT skills, including proficiency in Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook), and exceptional typing accuracy.

First Aid training, or a willingness to undertake training to become a school first aider.

Outstanding communication, listening, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to maintain calm and professional under pressure.

A strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Desirable Criteria:

Previous experience working in a school environment or using school systems like Arbor (MIS).

Experience in absence or attendance management.

Level 3 Safeguarding or Safer Recruitment training.

Typing, word processing, or minute-taking qualifications.

Why Join Truro and Penwith Academy Trust?

We are committed to helping you grow. By joining our team, you will have access to continuous professional development (CPD), mandatory training, and a supportive network of professionals across the Trust. You will play an active role in modeling a positive school culture and helping our pupils build a brighter future.

As a leading Academy Trust, we are able to offer our staff a range of continued professional development opportunities alongside family friendly policies and access to the Local Government/Teachers Pension Schemes. More on our benefits can be found here.

How to Apply and Further Info:

To be considered for this role, please click the “Apply” button above to submit your online application.

The closing date and time for receiving applications is 12.00pm Monday 20 July 2026.

If you wish to discuss this position ahead of applying, please contact Jon Hall, Headteacher, on jhall@cape.tpacademytrust.org 01736 788501.

Interviews to be held on Wednesday 22 July 2026.

If you encounter any issues with the online application, please contact the Talent Team for assistance at Talent@tpacademytrust.org.

TPAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application as part of their pre-employment administration. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Other pre-employment checks will include receipt of two satisfactory references, evidence of right to work in the UK, proof of any relevant qualifications and completion of a health assessment questionnaire.