Chief Financial Officer
Poynton High School
Cheshire East
- Expired
- Salary:
- £50,734 - £65,363
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 12 June 2017
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a talented Chief Financial Officer to join our friendly and professional team. The purpose of the role is to provide effective and efficient financial leadership to all our schools within our partnership and to support the CEO in the strategic leadership of our newly forming Multi Academy Trust.
Key responsibilities will include:
- To foster and implement strategy and to resource and deliver the organisation’s strategic objectives.
- To demonstrate practical, theoretical and procedural knowledge across all disciplines of budget setting, financial management, administration and premises.
- To influence all material business decisions to ensure immediate and longer term implications, opportunities and risks are fully considered, and alignment with the organisation’s financial strategy.
- To lead the promotion and delivery by the whole organisation of good financial management in order public money is safeguarded at all times and used appropriately, economically, efficiently and effectively.
- To provide strategic guidance, leadership and management of all the Trust’s finances, advising the CEO/Accounting Officer, Directors and Head Teachers on all financial matters relating to the trust.
- To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of financial support services throughout the Trust, including the establishment/operation of a suitable accounting system and implementation of sophisticated systems of internal control.
- To be the primary point of contact for all aspects of funding and financial/statutory returns.
- To be responsible for the statutory accounts, financial returns and reports to Directors, Trust members, EFA/DfE and other statutory bodies in accordance with guidance and externally determined deadlines.
- Management of staff, including commissioning and delegation of relevant activities as appropriate.
Poynton High School, Lostock Hall Primary School and other local partners are taking the initiative in creating their own Multi Academy Trust (MAT) which is called ‘The T.R.U.E. Learning Partnership’. It will be set up to fulfil specific goals for the local community. The trust would have Poynton High School and Lostock Hall Primary as its first schools, but would look to bring in further schools, such as local feeder primary schools and another secondary school.
Poynton High School is a very calm and purposeful learning environment and our students are exceptionally engaged in their learning and the life of their school. “…most pupils demonstrate very positive attitudes to learning by their interest and enthusiasm in class and their participation in a wide range of enrichment activities. Pupils are generally confident and feel well cared for. They are proud of their school.” (Ofsted Dec 2015).
About Poynton High School
Poynton High School and Performing Arts College is an 11-18 school providing high quality education to the communities of Poynton, Disley, Adlington and Pott Shrigley. An increasing number of parents each year are also choosing to send their children to Poynton High School from further afield, and we welcome this widening community.
With 1450 students on roll, including a sixth form of over 300, our school is large and this allows us to offer a very wide range of subjects and opportunities beyond the classroom.
We are proud of the high standards we achieve academically for young people of all abilities. We are equally proud of the way we help our young people grow into responsible and healthy adults. Through Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education, Drama, Dance, Music, P.E., a thriving House system, a caring and supportive Pastoral system and a wealth of clubs and activities, we seek to fulfil our mission statement:
“WE WILL INSPIRE AND EMPOWER ALL IN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY TO FULFIL THEIR INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL AND AMBITIONS SO THAT ALL ARE ABLE TO BE ACTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL CITIZENS IN OUR GLOBAL SOCIETY”
Poynton High School and Performing Arts College is consistently one of the highest achieving schools in the North West. Each year many of our students move on to Higher Education studying the full range of degree courses at Universities across the UK including Oxford and Cambridge. Over the years we have developed excellent relationships with many higher education establishments. At the same time as helping our older students to achieve their full academic potential, we also encourage them to work in a variety of ways with younger students in the school. In this way, we make the most of the opportunities offered by being an 11-18 educational community and all students benefit.
We believe strongly in being fully involved in our community. We work closely with our local primary schools to build curriculum and social links and, as the geographical area for our intake extends, we are developing our transition programme to help all our young people to make the transfer from primary to secondary education successfully. A Work Experience programme for all of Year 12 is also a valuable opportunity to help students learn about the world of work. We are an inclusive community and celebrate our diversity, not least in the extensive range of activities we offer which allow our students to extend their community links working with others locally, nationally and globally too.
The pastoral care of our students is a responsibility we take very seriously. To ensure each student is valued as an individual, our young people are welcomed into school by a Director of Learning for Transition and Year 7, specialising in ensuring a smooth transition to secondary school. Students stay with the same form tutor for Years 7 – 11 and their personal welfare is overseen by a team of Directors of Learning and Student Support Leaders during Years 7 -11. The Pastoral Leaders do not have a teaching commitment and they therefore ensure that parents can have personal contact with a member of staff at any point during a school day. The relationships developed in this way help us to know your children very well and to support them in making the most of the learning opportunities provided. A specialist team of staff working in the Sixth Form ensures that students receive the very best care and advice to help them prepare for their futures.
Being an 11-18 school also helps us to attract high quality teachers who want the opportunity to teach across the whole age and ability range. We go to great lengths to appoint the best teachers, because we know how crucial that is.
Students joining our Sixth Form benefit from the new state of the art Sixth Form Centre. The centre houses ICT Suites, general teaching rooms, study areas and a cafe. Students have the opportunity to study a wide range of A levels in the Sixth Form.
We aim to work with parents to bring out the best in all our young people. We have a commitment to keep parents informed of progress and always welcome contact from you.
Matthew Dean
Head Teacher
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