Appropriate Body Coordinator
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB1 2HT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Closing date: | 7 Sept 2026 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
You will be able to provide excellent customer service, have strong verbal and written communication and communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders. A team player, who can work independently, you will be able to prioritise a busy workload to consistently meet deadlines.
You will have:
• A degree or equivalent.
• A PGCE/Qualified Teacher Status is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of carrying out administrative tasks to deadlines
• Experience of managing complex projects with multiple strands.
• Experience of using Management Information Systems.
• Excellent project management, organisational and administrative skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, including report- writing, building and maintaining relationships and ensuring the flow of information across partnerships.
• Good ICT literacy, including Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong commitment to the Trust values of ‘Service’, ‘Teamwork’, ‘Ambition’ and ‘Respect’
What the school offers its staff
It is an exciting time to join the team at Star’s Teaching School Hub Appropriate Body. You will be working for one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country, providing an Appropriate Body service to our Trust’s family of 36 schools along with the 1094 schools that sit within our Teaching School Hub Network’s regions and beyond.
The role will offer you a wide variety of tasks including liaising with schools, dealing with enquiries, managing the online registration and induction process, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment ensuring the Appropriate Body meets its statutory requirements. The role is ideal for those with administrative experience within an educational setting, a recent graduate or former teacher.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.