Business Administration Apprentice
Beck Row Primary Academy
Bury St Edmunds (IP28 8AE)
Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Beck Row Primary Academy are looking for a school administrator to join their busy team. This is a great opportunity to gain a level 3 qualification whilst obtaining valuable office experience. You will be the first point of contact for any visitor, parent/carer or student coming into the Academy.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Wage increases to National Minimum Wage after 12 months if over 19 years old.
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday- Term time only
37 hours per week total
Daily hours to be confirmed
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 5 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Act as the first point of contact for the Academy
- Always ensure the safety and security of the Academy, monitoring all entry/exit cameras
- Answering the telephones and taking messages
- Communicating with parents/carers on all aspects of student’s Academy life, taking messages and
forwarding to relevant members of staff - Receive, sort and deliver all packages and mail
- Organise and send post when and where necessary
- Sign in and out visitors
- Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed by visitors to reception at all times
- Ensure the reception area is consistently kept smart and tidy
- Ensure the academy diary/calendar is updated and events shared with relevant people
- Support in producing letters and certificates
- Coordinate rewards material (such as certificates, post cards, letters) and distribute to relevant staff
- Order school milk and fruit and check delivery
- Follow instructions and complete tasks given
- Undertake first day calling for absent pupils and update the register
- Sign in late pupils and update the register including reason for lateness
- Collate late slips and identify parents who need to be contacted
Where you'll work
Beck Row Primary Academy
The Street Beck Row
Bury St Edmunds
IP28 8AE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Training course
Business administrator (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Skilled in the use of multiple IT packages and systems relevant to the organisation in order to: write letters or emails, create proposals, perform financial processes, record and analyse data. Examples include MS Office or equivalent packages. Able to choose the most appropriate IT solution to suit the business problem. Able to update and review databases, record information and produce data analysis where required.
- Produces accurate records and documents including: emails, letters, files, payments, reports and proposals. Makes recommendations for improvements and present solutions to management. Drafts correspondence, writes reports and able to review others' work. Maintains records and files, handles confidential information in compliance with the organisation's procedures. Coaches others in the processes required to complete these tasks.
- Exercises proactivity and good judgement. Makes effective decisions based on sound reasoning and is able to deal with challenges in a mature way. Seeks advice of more experienced team members when appropriate.
- Builds and maintains positive relationships within their own team and across the organisation. Demonstrates ability to influence and challenge appropriately. Becomes a role model to peers and team members, developing coaching skills as they gain area knowledge.
- Demonstrates good communication skills, whether face-to-face, on the telephone, in writing or on digital platforms. Uses the most appropriate channels to communicate effectively. Demonstrates agility and confidence in communications, carrying authority appropriately. Understands and applies social media solutions appropriately. Answers questions from inside and outside of the organisation, representing the organisation or department.
- Completes tasks to a high standard. Demonstrates the necessary level of expertise required to complete tasks and applies themself to continuously improve their work. Is able to review processes autonomously and make suggestions for improvements. Shares administrative best-practice across the organisation e.g. coaches others to perform tasks correctly. Applies problem-solving skills to resolve challenging or complex complaints and is a key point of contact for addressing issues.
- Takes responsibility for initiating and completing tasks, manages priorities and time in order to successfully meet deadlines. Positively manages the expectations of colleagues at all levels and sets a positive example for others in the workplace. Makes suggestions for improvements to working practice, showing understanding of implications beyond the immediate environment (e.g. impact on clients, suppliers, other parts of the organisation). Manages resources e.g. equipment or facilities. Organises meetings and events, takes minutes during meetings and creates action logs as appropriate. Takes responsibility for logistics e.g. travel and accommodation.
- Uses relevant project management principles and tools to scope, plan, monitor and report. Plans required resources to successfully deliver projects. Undertakes and leads projects as and when required.
Training schedule
- Business Administration Level 3
- 20% off the job training
- Tutor support via online platform
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
About this employer
At Academy Transformation Trust (ATT), our ambition is that every person who passes through our schools and colleges becomes an educated person – able to take a rightful place in the community of educated people and to join what Robert Maynard Hutchins called “the Great Conversation.” An ATT education stresses history, the scientific mode of thinking, the disciplined use of language, a wide-ranging knowledge of the arts and religion, and the continuity of human enterprise. We aspire for everyone, regardless of their starting point, to leave us capable, competent, and confident.
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent role considered on completion of the apprenticeship
- Level 4 School business professional qualification available
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Louise
louise.mcmeechan@lmpeducation.org
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346425.
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Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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