Finance Office
Heartlands High School
Heartlands High School
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Scale 5: £22,506 – £24,510
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 19 September 2017
Job overview
Finance Officer
36 hours per week (52 week contract)
(Term time +) Working considered for exceptional applicants
Permanent Contract
Scale 5: £22,506 – £24,510
Heartlands High School is a new mixed comprehensive 11-16 school that opened in September 2010. Popular and oversubscribed within the local community the school will take 1080 students when full with 25 places in a specialist Autism provision. Our recent Ofsted described the school as a “Leaders have been able to cultivate an ethos of focusing on the needs of individual pupils. Pupils irrespective of their starting points, receive a range of support. Many pupils make very good progress.’’ (Ofsted 2016)
Heartlands High School is looking to recruit for September 2017, an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Officer, who has the ability to work within a team independently and manage their own time effectively. We are a friendly, happy and enthusiastic team who are committed to helping students, parents and staff.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, financially experienced “people person” who will support the School’s Finance Manager and ensure that the finance systems of the school run smoothly and to time. The successful candidate should have:
· Experience of financial management accounting
· Ability to communicate financial information to non financial persons
· Ability to use own initiative, prioritise and meet deadlines
· Good oral and written skills
· Experience using IT Software particularly Microsoft Excel (including formulae), FMS and PS Financials
· Ability to input and/or extract from a manual or computerized database
· Ability to work in a sensitive environment maintaining high level of confidentiality
· Understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and safeguarding children
Familiarity with FMS and/or PS Financials plus Parentpay and Impact is desirable but training will be given to someone who meets all other criteria.
For further information or if you would like to arrange a visit to the school please contact HR@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk.
Closing Date by 12 p.m. Wednesday 20th September 2017.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 27th September 2017.
Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the School.
Heartlands High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and young people. The successful applicant will therefore be required to complete a DBS check. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population.
Please click on the 'Quick Apply' button below to submit your application today.
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About Heartlands High School
Our amazing school is looking for people with high aspirations, the desire to achieve and succeed – both for themselves and the students, but also for the community and their colleagues. This means we’re looking for creative thinkers, inspiring individuals and team players.
Part of SEARCH Education Trust, Heartlands High School is located within Wood Green, Haringey. We opened as a new school in September 2010 in state-of–the-art facilities. We are now oversubscribed and a first choice school for parents and students in the local community. Our intake is diverse and is a real reflection of the community that we serve. Our aspirations for this community are high and we want our students to have access to the very best education.
Our vision for the school is simple. We want our students to obtain a commitment to learning through achieving outstanding learning, outstanding partnerships and an outstanding ethos. We expect our students to achieve higher than the national average results and we support them in getting there.
The ethos within the school is consistently recognized as a strength, supported through SEARCH. We teach our students that school matters, that the effort is essential, that achievement will carry them forward, that active citizenship matters and that none of this can be achieved without the highest of aspirations.
SEARCH staff are rewarded through access to a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to;
- Continuous professional development
- Teacher training programme (Early Career Teacher/Teach First /Schools Direct /Apprentice)
- Leadership programmes
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Tech Scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- GP helpline service
- Season ticket loans
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits/ discounts platform
- Health and Wellbeing events/ resources
- Access to onsite fitness sessions
- Flexible working options
- Family Friendly Policies
- Employer pension contribution
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Support and development:
At Heartlands, we use School IP to track and support training and ongoing CPD. Depending on your need and level of experience, you will be placed on a training pathway.
The CPD plan is released in September each year and includes a range of internal training sessions before and after school as well as on inset days.
Examples of supported external training:
• NPQSL
• NPQML
• NPQH
• Outstanding Teacher Programme
• Developing Teacher Programme
• Exam Moderation Training.
Please review our website and twitter feed for all the latest news and views from HHS including our relevant policies including Safeguarding and child protection as well as data and privacy statements https://heartlands.haringey.sch.uk/about-us/policies/
Heartlands High School, Part of SEARCH Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.
NOTE: It is an offence to apply for a role if the person is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. (Legislation.gov.uk - section 7(1)(a) of the SVGA 2006)
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