Academy Finance and General Trips and Visits Administrator
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy, Nottingham, NG5 6NZ4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
15 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Accounting
Working pattern
- Full time: Term Time + 2 Weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC6-10 - £22,732 - £24,223 (actual salary)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Reporting to the Principal’s Personal Assistant the purpose of this role is to manage the daily financial administration and processing tasks for the Academy, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory bodies. This role supports the Principal by maintaining accurate financial records, processing payments, handling cash, and administering trips and visits.
We are keen to attract proactive individuals with good IT skills, capable of meeting deadlines and completing tasks to a high standard. The ideal candidate will have strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy is a special place to learn and work. Our students are impressive young people, whose behaviour and achievements are something to be proud of. Our aim is for all members of the community to “Be inspired and achieve together” and to provide opportunities for this on a daily basis. Student attainment and progress is above national average at GCSE and well above average at A Level. We are currently full to capacity in most year groups with waiting lists for students hoping to join. We teach our students the value of respect, how to act responsibly and support them to become mature, independent young people. We very much believe in the potential of every student, enabling them to thrive in our caring environment.
SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission
Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision
Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact abrown@arnoldhillspencer.org.uk
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
Closing date for applications 15 October 2024 12pm
Interviews will take place on 18 October 2024
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
How to Apply
Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.
We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visithttps://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656
The Trust and its member academies are
committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education
provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents,
governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders
within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect
regardless of Protected Characteristics.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
Essential
Level 2 NVQ in Literacy and Numeracy or GCSE Grade C/4 equivalent
Experience of working in an administration role
Previous experience of financial procedures
Effective research and budgetary skills
Experience and ability to work with a degree of autonomy within agreed boundaries
Ability to deal with suppliers on the phone
Experience of using Financial Management Systems and accounting packages
Good working knowledge and experience of using ICT including Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and relevant software
An understanding of child protection, Health & Safety and Data Protection Policies
Excellent communication (written and verbal)
Excellent organisation skills and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy, with meticulous attention to detail
Initiative and ability to prioritise own work and that of others to meet deadlines
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain strict confidentiality
Ability to work flexibly to meet deadlines, adopt a ‘hands on’ approach and respond to unplanned situations
Ability to work in a team, accept delegated responsibility and delegate as appropriate
Ability to follow direction and work in collaboration with the leadership team
Ability to evaluate own development needs and those of others and to address them
Commitment to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
Recognition of the importance of personal responsibility for health and safety
Understanding the need for confidentiality and data protection
Commitment to the Trust’s ethos, aims and whole community.
Desirable
Previous experience of working in a school, with knowledge of SIMS, education processes and procedures would be highly advantageous
Full driving licence
What the school offers its staff
Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous service, for full details please visit: https://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits
Commitment to safeguarding
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Arnold Hill Spencer Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1556 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Arnold Hill Spencer Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- abrown@arnoldhillspencer.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01159554804
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy is a special place to learn and work. Our students are impressive young people, whose behaviour and achievements are something to be proud of. Our aim is for all members of the community to “Be inspired and achieve together” and to provide opportunities for this on a daily basis.
We teach our students the value of respect, how to act responsibly and support them to become mature, independent young people. We very much believe in the potential of every student, enabling them to thrive in our caring environment.
We are a member of the Spencer Academies Trust and benefit from the support of an established trust. To find out more about The Spencer Academies Trust, please visit www.satrust.com
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Lesiure Complex Receptionist/Administrator
Ibstock School
Central Avenue, Ibstock, Leicestershire, LE67 6NE
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Nottingham