Staff Cover and Rooming Administrator - Dr Challoner’s High School
Location: Little Chalfont
Overview
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and meticulous administrator to play a pivotal and very satisfying role at the heart of day-to-day operations in our school.
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours (5 days) per week, 39 weeks/year (term time plus 5 days to be used flexibly)
Salary: Pay Range 3 £31,230 (FTE) £21,474 actual (pro rata)
Closing date: 9am on Monday 13th July 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 15th July 2026
About us
Dr Challoner's High School is a leading selective state grammar school for girls, with a strong academic tradition and an ambitious outlook for the future. The school has a broad vision for education and is characterised by a highly purposeful pursuit of personal bests with a keen sense of fun bubbling under the surface. Challoner’s girls are articulate, courteous, sparky, hard-working and achieve highly in all areas. The school was graded Outstanding by Ofsted and as ‘Leading’ in all areas by Challenge Partners in 2023.
The best advert however for working at Dr Challoner’s High School will always be our hugely rewarding students
Within the Challoner’s High community, you will experience:
- A positive place to work with excellent facilities and IT resources and lots of purposeful, fun and community-minded people around you (unlike working from home!)
- Use of staff gym; free staff yoga and fitness classes on site; staff discounts at local shops and restaurants in Little Chalfont, free flu jabs, some free food, local theatres discounts when available, two-week October half term. Membership of Local Government Pension Scheme
- Qualified daughters of staff are given priority in the schools over subscription criteria after 2 or more years’ service. Also, excellent train links to London (on the Metropolitan line)
For more information please visit: www.challonershigh.com
About the role
You will be responsible for planning and organising cover for absent teachers, and all room changes for events, lessons, clubs and meetings, ensuring clear communication and efficient processes.
The role involves developing a detailed understanding of the operations of a large and highly busy school, helping to ensure that it runs very smoothly and efficiently, so building good relationships with a wide range of staff is very important.
This is an ideal opportunity to play a central role in our warm and strong community, providing the very best operational support for our staff. In short, we are looking for a really nice person who has the skills and attributes to help our school run like a Swiss watch!
About you
The successful candidate will be very organised, with good communication skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to work highly accurately, planning ahead and also problem-solving.
Other information
An information pack is available from the Vacancies section of the school website or from [email protected]
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and those interested in job-sharing. Dr Challoner’s High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure and Section 128 check, where applicable.
A copy of our privacy notice for applicants can be found here.
Please refer to our website where you can view our Child Protection and Safeguarding, and Safer Recruitment Policies. This is a regulated activity.
All of our polices are available at www.challonershigh.com.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
