Finance Assistant

Exciting opportunity for a Finance Assistant in our dynamic school.Are you a detail-oriented finance professional with a passion for education? We are looking for a dedicated Finance Assistant to join our vibrant secondary school team and contribute to the success of our students and staff. As a Finance Assistant you will play a crucial role in supporting the financial operations of our school, ensuring resources are efficiently managed to enhance the learning environment. We are looking for an individual who has a finance background, ideally previous experience in a school would be advantageous together with good communication, analytical skills and someone who is tech-savvy! The 4 Day Week Campaign believes it would “dramatically improve the lives of teachers”. We are always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance at The Westleigh School and we are excited to have been asked to be part of a trial of the 4-Day teaching week for staff whilst continuing to receive full-time pay, which will commence 2023/2024 Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring The Westleigh school is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Westleigh School is a great place to learn and a great place to work.Uniting with The Shaw Education Trust brings with it new opportunities and a wealth of resources to supplement our mission to improve outcomes for all our students. Colleagues will have access to a large range of well-established training opportunities, such as a fully funded L5 Instructional Coaching qualification or Accelerated Leadership training, for those aspiring to Middle Leadership. Outstanding teachers will also achieve Trust Professional Advocate designation, which provides exciting opportunities to support colleagues within both The Westleigh School and across other SET schools to share best practice. With this brings the opportunity to engage in the cross-trust peer review and Trust CPD programme.All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. WShaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays) Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational HealthCycle to work schemeAccess to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust. We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one. We strive to support our employees with work-life balance benefits and offer the opportunity to take sabbatical leave after a certain length of service – They are agreed for a variety of reasons including rewarding long service, travel, research or acquiring new skills, voluntary work, alleviating stress and burn out or to take care and rejuvenate yourself.This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions. All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment checks.We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.Salary Grade: G6 (SCP 20 – SCP 24) £25,119 - £27,803)Actual Salary: £22,456.25 - £24,855.73Working Hours: 37 HOURS PER WEEK, TERM TIME ONLY + 10 DAYS Application deadline: 24th January 2024 Interview date: 29th January 2024 We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.