Business Manager

Location: Minehead, Somerset

Salary:  £40,000.00 - £47,000.00 

Hours: 40 hours per week

Closing Date: 12pm on Friday 25th November 

Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.

We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.

The main purpose of the role:

The support services teams are an essential pillar in enabling the children and young adults to achieve their full potential.

The Business Manager is part of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for the Finance, HR, and Administration whilst supporting the site lead. You will also line manage both the Premises and Hotel Managers.

You will supervise and develop the support services teams to ensure an efficient, safe, healthy, clean, attractive and comfortable environment is provided within budget whilst business aims, and objectives are met as a minimum and exceeded where possible. There is an expectation of the post holder to act with a high degree of autonomy including responsibility and accountability for managing delegated budgets and resources.

The role also involves creating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development plans aimed at bringing about continual improvement in these areas.

Key duties:

• Ensure the smooth, efficient, effective and economical running of each of the support departments, to include Finance, Administration, HR, Facilities and Housekeeping
• Ensure all support services meet the needs of the individual children and young adults by enabling the environment to be used as a means of support and social learning.
• Effectively lead financial management including analysing, managing and monitoring budgets, financial performance and activities.
• Effectively lead all aspects of on-site HR, liaising with central HR and supporting managers to undertake day to day HR processes as required.
• Effectively lead all administrative functions required for the service.
• Provide professional leadership and management of the Premises Manager, Hotel Manager and Support teams to enhance their effectiveness and performance to achieve excellent standards.
• Promote the highest standards of business ethos and compliance.
• Carry out and/or facilitate audit processes to monitor service delivery standards.

Experience and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:  

• Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations and standards for education
• Knowledge of current inspection frameworks used by regulatory and statutory bodies.
• Safeguarding and legislative procedures when working with children and young people
• Management and knowledge of EBITDA, financial systems, processes and budget preparation Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
• Ability to form & promote positive relationships with and between young people, employees, parents and representatives of outside agencies
• Ability to define high, appropriate and attainable standards, and achieve them
• Effective team leadership and management
• Ability to assess situations accurately, resolve problems effectively and take decisions 

Qualifications

• A Management or Professional qualification in related area to role e.g. Management Diploma or Finance qualification is desirable.

Benefits and Additional Information:

• Full training and continued support
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Mental healthcare support for all permanent employees through our health assured Employee Assistance Programme.
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Perk box
• Free parking

For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer