Finance/ Administration Officer
Littleover Community School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE23 4BZThis job expired on 3 October 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible, subject to pre-employment checks
Closing date
3 October 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 September 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week. 41 weeks per year (Term time +2 weeks, including INSET days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE : £23,620 - £25,409 Actual: £21,452 - £23,077
Pay scale
- Grade E
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a reliable and enthusiastic individual, able to use their own initiative but also able to work well as part of a team. Please note, GCSE Grade A*-C in English and Mathematics or equivalent, is an essential requirement for this role.
Duties will include:
- Operating the LA & School finance systems to purchase goods and services – electronic and manually.
- Assist with the maintenance of the School Inventories.
- Support the school’s online payments portal – Parent Pay.
- Supporting our students and parents issuing Bursary payments and Free School Meal Vouchers.
- Dealing with suppliers, customers, staff and Governors by telephone and face to face resolving enquiries.
- Assisting the School Operations Manager and School Finance Manager with financial and clerical duties, as directed (see Job Description).
- Working to ensure Safeguarding, UK GDPR, LCS Confidentiality and Financial Regulations are upheld.
- Providing clerical support using Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel as necessary.
- To assist in the smooth running of Reception and where necessary, cover at times of absence.
The person appointed to this position will need to be flexible, well organised, professional and have the ability to communicate with staff and students at all levels. They should be numerate with excellent IT skills and the ability to adapt to new systems. Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
What the school offers its staff
As a school, we are committed to continuous improvement so that we can continue to evolve to match the changing needs of our students, parents and carers, staff and wider school community. We are keen to utilise the latest thinking and technologies to ensure all our students are best equipped to achieve success in the future.
Our governors and staff are fully committed to serving the needs of our school community in these challenging social times, including continuing to develop the very strong academic performance of our school. If you feel you could contribute to this vision, we would be very pleased to receive your application.
Littleover Community School is an 11-18 comprehensive, community school. We are a Local Authority maintained school and have a positive working relationship with Derby City Council. We are not an Academy and have no current plans to join a new, or existing, Academy chain.
Our school is situated four miles to the south west of the centre of Derby, in pleasant, spacious grounds. We have a proud academic and pastoral record and the school is always popular with parents and carers looking for school places, within our own catchment area and beyond.
We currently welcome 295 students into Year 7 each year, giving us a current roll of approximately 1850, including a Sixth form of over 350 students.
Commitment to safeguarding
Littleover Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.
In accordance with the statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Copies of our Safeguarding Policy, along with other school policies, are available at:
https://www.littleover.derby.sch.uk/information.php#policies
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About Littleover Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1808 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Littleover Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@littleover.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 513219
Littleover Community School is a Derby City Council, 11-18 co-educational, comprehensive school. Our school is situated four miles to the south west of the centre of Derby, in pleasant, spacious grounds and has a proud academic and pastoral record. Many teachers, after thriving here and developing their skills, go on to posts of responsibility here or elsewhere. Others, happy to work in a school which values effective classroom teaching above all else, stay here and contribute hugely over the years.
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