Finance Assistant
Harris Academy South Norwood
South Norwood, SE25 6AE
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 3 (Outer London): £19,935-£20,472 FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 23 October 2018
Job overview
We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join our outstanding team at Harris Academy South Norwood.
As an employee with the Harris Federation, you will receive a generous benefits package, including performance and loyalty bonus, pension scheme (LGPS), Harris wellbeing cash plan and additional Harris benefits.
What we are looking for:
- Knowledge of a variety of financial recording systems, ideally including school finance systems
- At least one year's experience working in a finance department
- Experience of working within financial controls and of assisting with budget setting and budget management
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
About Harris Academy South Norwood
Located five minutes from Norwood Junction train station, a transport hub ten minutes' train journey from London Bridge, Harris Academy South Norwood has belonging and personal growth as our touchstones. We believe that teaching students powerful knowledge and developing their understanding of the world will help them become the best version of themselves: to help them to turn mirrors into windows.
Why work at Harris Academy South Norwood?
- A dynamic curriculum, delivered through an ethos of business and enterprise and the very best in technology and resources across our two sites
- A warm, ambitious family of staff and governors with a passion for learning
- Excellent personal and professional development opportunities through the Harris Federation network
- Generous Harris benefits and rewards package - see our benefits page for further information
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Candidate Information Pack.
For more information, or to arrange a visit or a confidential discussion with the Principal, please contact the academy on 0208 405 5070 or info@harrissouthnorwood.org.uk.
The Harris Federation offers exceptional opportunities for personal and professional development. No matter what stage you are at or what job you do, we will support and develop your skills, with our Teaching School delivering outstanding courses for staff at every level.
As part of Harris, you will have the opportunity to progress within a close regional network, with regular opportunities for promotion available both within the academy and across the Federation.
We have a highly experienced team of leaders, including executive principals, mentors and subject specialists, all committed to supporting your career and developing your skills.
Please note: academies may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. You will still be able to add information until the closing date, but you will not be able to submit your application. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
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Harris academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the Harris Federation uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement.
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About Harris Academy South Norwood
- Harris Academy South Norwood
- Cumberlow Avenue, South Norwood
- London
- SE25 6AE
- United Kingdom
Harris Academy South Norwood is an 11-18 Academy for 1,100 students that opened in September 2007, located in a purpose built, state-of-the-art new building.
Harris Academy South Norwood is an outstanding Academy and has excellent facilities for teaching and learning. We have the highest standards of behaviour and expectations. We have been recognised by the DFE as being one of the best schools in England for our type of intake and one of the most effective schools in the country, with pupil progress in the top 1% nationally. Our programmes for professionally developing staff are first class.
The Academy is a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat one another with care and respect. It combines traditional values of discipline and good-manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum with a specialism in Enterprise.
Our Sixth Form has grown to be the largest in the Federation, from 43 students in 2007 to 380 in 2013. We are full in all other year groups and we believe this is a testament to the reputation and continued success of the academy.
Academy Ethos
A vision for every teacher, every student and every leader to be outstanding: the expectation is to foster a culture of academic excellence, ambition and aspiration. All students yet in particular our most vulnerable are nurtured and cared for in a holistic way.
There is a culture of high expectations for all students, which underpins every development in the Academy. Harris Academy South Norwood has developed flexible and creative approaches to teaching and learning that raises standards for all.
Using the specialism of Business and Enterprise six core principles have been established that are recognised across the Academy as promoting enterprising learning:
· Learning first
· High aspirations
· Business environment
· Celebrate success
· Growing confidence
· Spirit of enterprise
An Academy ethos of encouragement is central to the promotion of good learning. Rewards are one of the means of achieving this, playing a motivational role in helping students to realise that good behaviour and high achievement is valued.
Academy Specialism
Enterprise
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