Chief Finance Officer
The Shaw Education Trust, Stoke-On-Trent, ST7 4DL11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
25 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, full time, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SPOT Salary £120,000 - £130,000
Pay scale
- SPOT Salary £120,000 - £130,000
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our Trust needs a new CFO!
We are seeking a colleague that will be exceptional in their role and will enable our children to excel because of their strategic thinking, drive, rigour and ambition. We seek a wonderful unicorn, able to balance technical precision, meticulous and relentless high performance and robust effectiveness, while at the same time being kind, generous, sensitive, compassionate and a culture champion. We have great people who need a brilliant leader to guide, motivate and authorise their excellence. #One team is everything and our pervading ethos; people thrive from the generosity of others.
At Shaw Education Trust, high achievement is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to ensuring that no individual’s opportunities are limited by their background or ability. Our focus is on harnessing the power of people to create positive change for our children and young adults, and we work closely with students, leaders, teachers, and support teams to shape everyone’s best future—because one size fits one. We believe education should be an exciting, dynamic space buzzing with vibrancy and potential. Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, allowing us to be creative, agile, and responsive to context and circumstance. We embrace new ideas and challenge the status quo to ensure that our students thrive.
Our values are,To Be Pupil and People Centred, To be Best in Class, To be Accountable, To be Innovative, To Act With Integrity
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee 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)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access 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.
Shaw Education Trust is a dynamic and rapidly growing multi-academy trustcommitted to improving the lives of young people by providing exceptional educational opportunities. Established in 2014, we have quickly expanded andnow oversee 32 academies across the West Midlands and Northwest of England. Our academies include a diverse range of settings, including primary,secondary, and specialist schools, all of which work collaboratively to ensure that every student receives a high-quality education tailored to their needs. Thisdiversity is a cornerstone of our approach, as we believe in the power of sharedlearning and the strength that comes from a united focus on excellence.
Since our inception, Shaw Education Trust has demonstrated a relentlesscommitment to driving educational improvement and ensuring that no student's future is limited by their background or ability. Our Trust is built on the belief that "one size fits one and being proud to belike nothing else" meaning we tailor our approaches to meet the individual needs of each learner. This ethos has fuelled our mission of ensuring brilliance ineducation, offering innovative solutions to raise standards and deliver exceptionaloutcomes.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes of this guidance as:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
Shaw Education Trust recognises that in order to keep pupils safe, leaders must create where pupils and staff are able to speak freely and share any concerns they have.
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About The Shaw Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
We are in the business of people; we focus on harnessing the power of people to affect positive change for our children and young adults.
We enable children, leaders, teachers and support teams, to create their individual best futures. We are bespoke: one size fits one.
Our approach derives from a mission that education should be an exciting space, buzzing with vibrancy, dynamism and unlimited potential.
Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, enabling creativity and mandating agility. We love a pirate!
Our talented people are everything; we focus heavily on workforce development, talent acceleration, and healthy wellbeing. By offering high quality training, apprenticeships, and research opportunities we ensure all our colleagues are well motivated, committed, highly valued, and incredibly driven, skilled professionals.
We are proud of our work family: they create magic for our young people!
Our learning community is enhanced by the mix of academies (primary, secondary and specialist) within our Trust; all with an equal voice. This allows us to create a team of collaborative folk with a wide range of valuable experience and knowledge.
We value and enjoy the privilege of working with our children and young adults; they are precious cargo. We are proud to be ‘exactly like nothing else.’
Our Core Values are:
To Be Pupil And People Centred
To Act With Integrity
To be Innovative
To Be Best In Class
To Be Accountable
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