Finance and Premises Assistant
Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RG5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 5, £27,711
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Finance and Premises Assistant who can provide an efficient and effective service for the School.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will provide efficient and professional support with key finance and site operation functions.
About The Role:
- Administer the school Educational Visits process from start to finish, and be main point of contact for all stakeholders
- Administer the school’s program of Peripatetic music lessons, and be main point of contact for all stakeholders
- Administer site lettings, and be main point of contact for all stakeholders
- Administer the distribution, payment and allocation of lockers
- Assist Finance Manager to accurately maintain the school finance system, according to regulations.
- Administer all fund-raising activities and main point of contact for all stakeholders
- Provide general support to the Finance Manager and Site and Maintenance Manager in the day to day administration of finance and premises matters
About You:
- Experienced in general office and finance administration
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills, with ability to use MS Office and financial software systems
- Flexible and adaptable to competing priorities and changing situations
- Exceptional organisation skills, and able to work accurately with attention to detail
- Strong communicator both face to face and via phone/email
Key terms:
- Hours: 37 hours per week.
- Terms: Full time (although applicants requesting term time plus 2 weeks would be considered)
- Duration: Permanent
- Location: Based on site within the school.
- Remuneration: The Essex Schools’ Local Government Scale 5, Point 9 (within ranges 9-12). £27,711 gross per annum.
- Annual leave: The annual holiday entitlement for this post starts at 25 days plus bank holidays (April to March)
To Apply:
- Please download an application form from our website.
- Applications Deadline: 23rd June 2025
- Start date: 1st September 2025 (with expected handover dates prior to this)
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. The need to appoint quickly means we reserve the right to appoint at any time.
- Contact: Applicants who require further information should contact the HR Manager at recruitment@shsb.org.uk or telephone 01702 606 200.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits:
- Auto-enrolment into a contributory pension scheme (LGPS for support staff, employer contribution 25%)
- Free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme
- CPD through internal and external providers (including a subscription to National College)
- Employee Support Programme offering retail discounts and vouchers, a 24/7 confidential advice line, and counselling.
- Specsavers Eye care vouchers
- Free use of the sports facilities
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.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Southend High School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1340 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Southend High School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@shsb.org.uk
Southend High School for Boys (SHSB) is an ‘Outstanding’ school (Ofsted 2015), rated as outstanding against every one of the inspection criteria. It is one of four selective schools within the Borough of Southend. The main school, years 7 to 11, is single sex boys whilst the large sixth form is coeducational. It is situated thirty miles from London on the Thames Estuary and is close to main road and rail links from London, and to Chelmsford and Cambridge. SHSB has ‘an ethos of excellence in both academic achievement and a wide range of activities [that] permeates all aspects of the school’ (Ofsted 2015). At SHSB talent is nurtured, learning is valued, challenge is welcomed, participation is expected and achievement is prized. SHSB is not only a lively and stimulating institution, but also a welcoming community with an open and friendly approach.
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