Business Manager
Woodham Academy, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 4AXThis job expired on 18 February 2026 – see similar jobs
Start date details
April 2026 (or as close to this date as possible)
Closing date
18 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
2 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per week Full Time - Whole Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £64,691 - £71,330
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale Grade 10-14
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Governors seek to appoint a Business Manager to lead the school’s support staff and be a key member of the Academy’s Leadership Team. The role provides strategic leadership of all non-teaching functions, ensuring strong financial management, effective business operations and the efficient deployment of resources to support high-quality teaching and learning.
The postholder promotes the highest standards of business ethos across the school, drives operational excellence, and ensures compliance with statutory, financial and regulatory requirements.
What the school offers its staff
Staff wellbeing and development are at the heart of everything that we do. We constantly strive to get better at everything that we do, but this is achieved in a warm and friendly environment.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Woodham Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1027 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Woodham Academy website
- Email address
- l.buck@woodham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01325 300328
Woodham Academy is a secondary 11-16 age group school in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Woodham Academy has undergone a transformation in recent years, including a brand-new building in September 2024. Our results are well above national averages, we achieve positive progress 8 scores and are ranked highly in County Durham league tables. We are oversubscribed for a sixth year in a row, demonstrating the journey we have been on. Staff wellbeing and development are at the heart of everything that we do. We constantly strive to get better at everything that we do, but this is achieved in a warm and friendly environment.
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