Business Support Officer

Grade 5 (SCP 6–11) | 37 hours per week | Term time plus 5 INSET days

Are you organised, proactive, and someone who takes pride in keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? Do you enjoy a varied role where your contribution makes a real difference to the day-to-day life of a school? Are you confident managing competing priorities while maintaining high standards?

If you have answered yes to these questions then we want to hear from you!

Lytham St Annes High School (LSA) is looking for a reliable and capable Business Support Officer to join our Business Support team. This is a varied and important role that sits at the heart of the school's operations, supporting teaching and learning through effective administrative and reprographic functions.

You'll work closely with colleagues across the school to ensure that printing, copying, and administrative tasks are handled efficiently and to a high standard — helping staff focus on what they do best.

This is a permanent, full-time role, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, during term time plus 5 INSET days.

A day in your new role could see you:

- Providing administrative support to the Business Support team, including reception cover, ensuring front-of-house and safeguarding standards are always upheld

- Managing the reprographics function, fulfilling printing and copying requests from staff and meeting deadlines

- Assisting staff with specialist printing or copying needs

- Maintaining equipment, troubleshooting user errors, and arranging repairs when required

- Managing stock levels of paper and consumables, including placing orders for new materials

- Monitoring machine usage and producing monthly consumption figures

Apply now and become an essential part of the team that keeps our school running smoothly every day!

Closing date: 3rd July 2026 08:00am

Interviews: 9th July 2026

Start date: 1st September 2026

Please take a little time to look at our website, which will give a flavour of our ethos and show that we care about each and every child that forms part of our community, and about every member of staff - it is this ethos that makes us 'a learning community in pursuit of excellence'.

www.lythamhigh.lancs.sch.uk

The benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Commitment to staff development

- Access to wellbeing and counselling services for you and your family

- On-site parking

- Pension scheme

- Family friendly policies to support our staff with parenting and caring responsibilities

- Be yourself; enjoy being part of a culture and community with different backgrounds, interests, faiths and lifestyles

- Staff discount eligibility for brands and stores

Our commitment to a safe and respectful environment

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to a diverse and inclusive community. We do not tolerate discrimination and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We provide equal access, services, and care regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity/expression/trans status, race, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone. This includes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment of any kind. We believe that all individuals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and we are dedicated to creating a workplace and online community free from harassment, intimidation, and discrimination. We encourage open communication, provide clear reporting mechanisms for misconduct, and conduct thorough investigations. We expect everyone interacting with us to uphold these standards.

All staff will be carefully selected using recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasise the Trust's commitment to safeguarding. All posts, including volunteers, are subject to enhanced DBS clearance. All shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of any criminal record or information that will make them unsuitable to work with children. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn should any information come to light that has not been included in the self-declaration. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from regulated activity relevant to children - anyone caught doing so will be reported to the police immediately. Please note that we reserve the right to review your online presence in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.