Job Description

Due to reorganisation and promotion within our school office, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an Administrative Assistant to join our team. The new role will be for 20 hours per week during term time, from Monday to Friday 8.30am-12.30pm. You will be working in a happy, confident and experienced team, under the line management of our Office Manager and alongside our School Finance Manager.

We hope to appoint an enthusiastic and organised person with recent experience in an office environment, who has the ability to multi task and prioritise effectively in our lively school office.

We are a welcoming and friendly school with a great staff and well behaved children.We have a positive ethos and a strong community feel amongst our staff, pupils, parents and governors. Both our Ofsted and Church School inspections have graded us as good and St Mary's is a really lovely place to come to work.

We are very proud of our school and warmly welcome visits by prior arrangement.

Please contact the school office, for further information or to arrange a visit.

Information about the School

We are a one-form entry primary school in Burnham-on-Crouch with 237 pupils currently on role. We are fortunate to have attractive and very spacious grounds, with a good sized playground, spiritual garden, large field, a forest school area and our own swimming pool. We are well resourced and our children appreciate and care for their school.

At St Mary’s, we are proud to be a Church School and our close links with the St Mary’s Church and the church community help to strengthen and enrich our Christian Vision, ‘to aspire, believe, belong and achieve, guided by the love of God’. The first letters of these words spell the word ABBA. Importantly for us, this is the Biblical word meaning ‘Father’ and reflects our school’s Christian distinctiveness.

Our vision is woven through all aspects of school life and is evident in the curriculum, worship and day to day activities of St Mary’s School. Our Christian Vision has always been a strength of the school and our community is shaped and underpinned by it in every way.

Our parents/carers are supportive and keen to participate in school life. We are fortunate to have an active Parents' Teachers' and Friends' Association which helps us in many ways, including fundraising for the school. Ofsted 2022 noted that, "Parents are appreciative of the commitment from staff and leaders. As a result, a number of parents commented positively on the support their children had received."

We follow an exciting curriculum, which uses a cross curricular approach where appropriate. We are extremely proud to have been re-accredited with the full International School Award in 2023, which greatly enriches life at St. Mary's and our participation in a range of international projects and activities is an integral aspect of school life.

We prioritise the well-being of pupils and staff. Our exciting OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) initiative has improved the quality of our lunchtime provision, meaning that our pupils return to classrooms in the afternoon happy and ready to learn.

Our pupils achieve well; in 2025, we were delighted with our statutory assessment results.

We are very proud of our school, our pupils and our strong, successful team.