School Business Partner
Nene Education Trust
Northamptonshire
- £36,000 - £41,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 18 July 2022
Job overview
Location: Manor School, Raunds.
Hours: 37 per week (Term Time Only - 40 weeks per year)
About Us
The Nene Education Trust is comprised of 8 great schools located in North Northamptonshire - each having its own unique character. All aspire to provide opportunities for good learning and developing life relationships in environments where staff and students feel safe and respected and able to pursue the highest possible progress and academic achievement for all. Central to our approach are our core values of respect, enrich and nurture and all staff members within our trust are expected to uphold similar values and put these at the heart of all they do.
Developing character, celebrating achievement, raising aspirations
We aim to ensure our children and young people are continually challenged to successfully complete their education, develop self-confidence and self-esteem, and to be proactive in determining their career pathway.
The Role
This is an exciting new role within the Trust that will provide operational support to the secondary school’s management team, acting as the coordinator between the school and the Trust Central Operations team, whilst providing on-site and off-site line management support to the Administration teams across a cluster of locally based primary and infant schools.
The role will carry out and ensure effective execution of finance, HR, and other relevant processes, supporting the school management team in transactional requirements, seeking advice and coordinating operational needs.
In addition, the role will line manage and support primary and infant school administration teams, maintaining quality assurance and supporting the teams in carrying out the same finance, HR, and other relevant processes to a high standard, within the agreed frameworks, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all sites.
Key Tasks:
- Support the Secondary school management team
- Line Manage Administration teams across multiple sites
- Ensure consistency in applying agreed ways of working, policies and procedures with advice and guidance from Central Team Operations
- Audit, review and ensure compliancy
- Coordinate financial and HR requirements when required
- Seek to continuously improve processes and the use of IT systems
- Upskill and support the use of IT systems such as Arbor.
About You
You will be a dedicated, enthusiastic individual that is looking to progress in their career or look for a new challenge in supporting the Trust Central Operations Team and the trust school’s to continuously improve and develop as it enters a new era of collaborative working.
Confident IT skills and a good understanding of HR, Financial and operational requirements of a multi-academy trust school setting is essential, as you will be a key stakeholder in the execution, coordination, and continuous improvement of a broad range of systems and processes to support the day-to-day operational needs of the schools, but also to improve the education of the young people.
A participative, coaching and collaborative approach is key as you will be supporting and developing multiple admin teams in utilising and following agreed ways of working, acting as a conduit and positive link between school admin teams, management teams and Central Operations.
If you would like further information, you are welcome to contact David Wright, HR Lead, on DWright@neneeducationtrust.org.uk
Benefits & Assets
· Work mobile phone
· Work laptop
· 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter
· Discounted gym membership
· Cycle to work scheme
· Annual rewards and recognition
· Monthly rewards and recognition
· Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional
· An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged
· Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours – while recognising our employees preferences for when they work
· Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes
The Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.
Further details and an application form can be found at www.neneeducationtrust.org.uk/index.php/job-search
To Apply Please complete an application form at www.neneeducationtrust.org.uk/index.php/job-search and send to joinourteam@neneeducationtrust.org.uk
We look forward to your response.
The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated below*
Closing date for completed Applications: 18/07/2022
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About Nene Education Trust
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The Nene Education Trust comprises of 8 unique and wonderful schools located in East Northamptonshire and Wellingborough. We are proud of our schools, students, staff and the communities they serve. We are committed to raising aspirations and developing character in a positive environment for all.
Raising aspirations and developing character is at the heart of everything we do within our schools to enable each young person to achieve highly and be successful in life, contributing back to the world we live in.
Throughout their educational journey in the Nene Education Trust, we aim to develop all our learners within a positive environment for learning, along with opportunities to develop their spiritual and moral compass so that they grow with integrity. Through a set of shared principles and our collaborative working we continue to develop as a multi-academy trust of highly effective schools. We are stronger together!
Working for Us
Professional development
We have a long track record of ‘growing our own’ and are committed to providing professional development opportunities for all staff. These include:
• Support (both financial and with study time) for other professional development programmes including MBAs.
• Access to Nationally Recognised Professional Qualifications and other external programmes including the Chartered Teacher Programme.
• Our in-house Leadership Pathways programme which offers bespoke training for middle and senior leaders.
• There are also opportunities for staff to experience secondments at other schools in the Trust, collaborate with colleagues and work on exciting projects across the organisation. All school leaders contribute 10% of their time to 'working together to improve all our schools'.
Health and wellbeing
• The health and wellbeing of our staff are important to us. We firmly believe that healthy, happy staff make for a positive and productive workforce, a thriving and dynamic environment and engaged and achieving young people. Our approach to staff wellbeing continues to evolve as we look for ways to further enhance the working environment and wellbeing of our staff.
We offer:
• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your school but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours –while recognising our employees preferences for when they work.
• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.
• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work related matter.
• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional.
We offer the opportunity to
• Work within a fantastic, close-knit community.
• Help shape the future of our school and the Nene Education Trust. • Teach highly motivated and talented children.
• Work with a range of colleagues who are valued, well-qualified and highly-motivated.
• Experience fantastic and varied opportunities for professional development.
• Work in a school where there is a genuine belief in the importance of staff well-being, as well as valuing each person (child, staff member, parent/carer…) as a unique human being.
• Live and work in a semi-rural location that offers competitive house prices, with outstanding leisure and shopping facilities and excellent transport links to all areas of the country.
To find out more about the Nene Education Trust please visit our website: https://neneeducationtrust.org.uk/
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