School Business Manager
Atherton High School
Wigan
- £37,890 - £41,881 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 6 August 2021
Job overview
School Business Manager - Full Time - Full Year
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced School Business Manager to join Atherton High School, a mainstream school which caters for children from year 7 to year 11.
The Role
The School Business Manager is the school’s leading support professional and works as part of the Senior Leadership Team to assist the Headteacher in his/her duty to ensure that the school meets its educational aims and secures the best possible academic outcomes and future life chances for all learners.
Main duties include
- Taking a lead role in planning, development, design, organisation and monitoring of support systems/procedures/policies
- Ensuring that all administrative activities are carried out in accordance with school policy and procedures
- Providing organisational and complex advisory support to staff
- Responsible for completion and submission of complex forms, returns etc., including those to outside agencies, e.g. DCSF
- Leading on GDPR compliance within the school
- Responsible for the selection and management of resources, including management of a budget and regular audit of resources
- Overseeing the recruitment of school support staff and in managing associated employment procedures
- Establishing work programmes and set work priorities for school support staff and resolve problems as required
- Taking a lead role in procurement and securing sponsorship/funding Managing service contracts
- Managing school budgets and finances
- Responsible for Health and Safety compliance
- Responsible for HR processes including supporting on absence management
- Responsible for ensuring the Single Central Record is maintained and compliant
- Responsible for staff safeguarding checks
The School
Atherton High School is part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT) which is committed to creating outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities..
Our portfolio of schools includes; The Heights Blackburn; The Heights Burnley; Coal Clough Academy Burnley; Pleckgate High School Blackburn; Eden School Blackburn; Burnley High School and Atherton High School.
If you are an experienced School Business Manager, we would welcome an application from you, consideration would also be given to those applicants who would like to have a reduced number of working weeks taking more time off during the school holidays.
Closing date Friday 6th August 2021
Interview date Tuesday 17th August 2021
The Education Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding its children; therefore, an enhanced DBS clearance will be undertaken for the successful applicant(s). The Trust (and its schools) are legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts.
Applicants must fully complete their application. Applicants must use the attributes listed in the Person Specification as headings within the personal statement section of the form to describe their suitability.
Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted as will those that do not complete the personal statement section as described above.
If you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com
Attached documents
About Atherton High School
Headteachers Welcome!
Welcome to Atherton High School. Our school sits at the heart of the community and encompasses the values and strengths of the town’s proud history. Atherton High School is part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), who are committed to creating outstanding schools which transform learning, lives, and communities.
Our school has a culture built around our values of respect, responsibility, and ambition; these core values underpin all we do. We promote our values through a strong, knowledge rich curriculum, whereby pupils develop depth of understanding across a wide range of subjects, to enable an ambitious education for all learners.
We are blessed with dedicated, talented, and highly qualified staff who expect the highest standards and academic effort from all our pupils. We encourage our pupils to take responsibility for their actions, decisions, and their future education and in doing so, we are providing an education for life. We believe every pupil is an individual that can achieve well; this is their responsibility, but we will support them every step of the way!
We are proud of our pupils and proud of our school. We expect pupils to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour so that everyone can learn, free from disruption or barriers. We want all our pupils to feel safe and to develop into caring, responsible, and confident young people. Pupils will be given a wealth of opportunities to experience culture beyond their experience so that they may develop holistically.
Support for each other is a key component of any thriving community. We are proud to serve our local community. Our facilities are accessed by local clubs and organisations to help deliver important extracurricular opportunities to develop pupils beyond school. We are also proud of the many pupils who enrich local community groups and offer a great deal to the wider community as a result. We are committed to working closely with our pupils, families, partner schools and the wider community to contribute positively to the local area and ensure the best possible outcomes for the young people of Atherton.
Atherton High is a highly successful 11 – 16 school and over the past three years has achieved the following:
• Judged as ‘Good’ in all categories of the Ofsted framework in January 2024.
• Outcomes category move from ‘well below average’ to ‘average’ and the most improved outcomes in Wigan authority.
• Established as the ‘school of choice’ in the local area, oversubscribed in every year group and waiting lists across all cohorts.
I am incredibly proud to be Headteacher of Atherton High School and would be delighted to welcome you to see our school in action.
Leanne Turner
Headteacher
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