Admissions and Attendance Officer

Are you interested in being at the face of a great school?

Swallow Dell is a high performing, highly thought of and successful two-form entry school in Welwyn Garden City. Our office is the heart of the school ensuring its smooth running and efficient organisation of operations, as well as being the forefront of the school when meeting families and visitors. We are seeking an enthusiastic, confident school administrator to work in our school office and be the front face of our school. 

There will be two main parts to the role. The first is being 'front of house' and a managing the outward facing desk in the school reception area. The second is managing pupils’ attendance and admissions. The successful candidate must have experience of working in administration - school experience and particularly in using Arbor will be looked at fondly. 

You will need to be organised to provide excellent administrative support for the whole school, whilst always promoting a friendly and professional office environment. It is important that you have the ability to build and maintain good relationships with all the staff and the local school community and communicate in a confident, friendly and professional manner.  You will need to be able to work well within a team, work well under pressure and be able to maintain attention to detail with frequent interruptions as well as managing various tasks simultaneously in a positive manner and confidentiality is key. Not only can we offer a fun, friendly team to work with every day, we also provide the following:

• Free wellbeing benefits – including physiotherapy, counselling, nurse support service

• A positive and caring working environment (We are signed up to the education staff wellbeing charter to prioritise staff wellbeing)

• Money saving reward scheme

• Training and Development opportunities

• Great Pension

• Well-resourced working environment

• Free on-site parking and staff refreshments

Swallow Dell is in Welwyn Garden City, close to the town centre and is well served with transport links. The school is a two-form entry with a Nursery provision, housed in two separate buildings. The school is fortunate to have some of the largest and most impressive school grounds of any primary school and there is a wealth of space and resources on site that children regularly access.  We have a friendly, dedicated team of staff who support each other to make it not only a great school for the children but also a great place to work.

Please see the attached a full job description for more information. We encourage you to make an appointment to visit us to fully appreciate what a great school and team we are. Please ring the school office on View phone number on teachinherts.com. We may interview earlier should a suitable candidate be available.  The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject safeguarding checks, including a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references, medical clearance and social media checks as part of our safer recruitment processes. Please look at our website for further information about the school on