Business Support Officer
Stowmarket High School, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1QR20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 10am
Date listed
10 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £8,433.00 - £8,701.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 3 (SCP4-6) FTE £24,404 - £25,183
Business Support Officer job summary
Stowmarket High School has an exciting future. We have seen a year-on-year improvement in GCSE results, but this forms just one piece of the jigsaw, and we strive to provide the best all-round education for our young people. Our enriching curriculum seeks to give our students every access to knowledge, skills and experiences to help them prepare for the future and encourage them to be independent, creative, confident and socially responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society. We are proud to be the town school and work to improve the life chances and opportunities for all our students.
We are looking to appoint a Business Support Officer to join our busy school office. This role requires a calm, highly organised individual who is confident to interact with others and can work under pressure. Experience of working in an administrative or business support capacity within an educational setting would be advantageous.
The hours of work in this post are 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time + one week)
Our ideal candidate will have excellent IT and interpersonal skills and a high degree of accuracy. Previous school office experience would be an advantage.
The successful candidate will be:
Friendly, professional and efficient
Extremely organised and accurate
An effective communicator at all levels
Able to demonstrate high levels of numeracy, literacy and confidentiality
Punctual, flexible and reliable
We can offer:
- a welcoming and caring staff team
- a supportive team of professionals within the school and as part of Kingfisher Schools Trust
- a range of dedicated staff wellbeing support
Kingfisher Schools Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits, including:
- Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
- Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College
- Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice
- Shopping and leisure discounts
- Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
- Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme
If you have any questions, or would like to arrange a visit to our school, please contact recruitment@kingfisherschools.co.uk
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Stowmarket High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 901 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Stowmarket High School website (opens in new tab)
Stowmarket High School is situated in picturesque mid Suffolk with excellent commuter links to Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich. We are an inclusive 11 – 18 Academy and part of Waveney Valley Academies Trust. 6th Form is currently not being offered. Construction of a new school is now complete on our current site and we have moved into our new state of the art school.
In return for working at Stowmarket High School, staff are assured of a welcoming environment with supportive colleagues and a strong focus on staff induction and ongoing professional development, a consistent and supportive approach to behaviour for learning together with inspirational and dynamic leadership.
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