Finance Assistant (0.6FTE)

The Spencer Academies Trust, Nottingham, NG9 6RZ

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Accounting
• Working pattern: Part time: Three days per week (22.5 hours) - All year round
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC6-10 (£15,804-£16,841 per annum - actual salary)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please see attached job description for further information

What the school offers its staff

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous of service. For full details, click here:https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employee-benefits

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Finance Assistant

Salary: NJC6-10 (£15,804-£16,841 per annum - actual salary)

Part time, three days per week (22.5 hours), permanent, or temporary, all year round

Starting as soon as possible

Do you want to become part of a highly successful Multi Academy Trust where our mission is to provide high quality education and deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people?

Are you a team player?

Can you work collaboratively and build positive relationships with colleagues at all levels?

If so then we definitely need to hear from you!

Due to the successful and ongoing growth of our Trust we are seeking to appoint a dedicated, reliable and enthusiastic part time Finance Assistant to complement our existing central team (permanent, or temporary roles available).

The successful candidate will work in conjunction with the wider finance team, and be an integral part of our processing team, and work to ensure accurate financial records are maintained, in line with current legislation and Trust policies.

As part of an excellent team you will be given extensive support to develop to your full potential both in this role and beyond.

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Michelle Woolley on MWolley@spencertrust.org.uk

How to Apply:

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.Please identify within your personal statement if you would be interested in a permanent or temporary role.

In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview, unless specifically requested not to at this stage.

Closing date for applications 9am Monday 6th October 2025

Interview dates are to be confirmed

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile.

If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Finance Assistant PT-JD September 25.pdf - 234 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Spencer Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Spencer Academies Trust website
• Email address: mwoolley@spencertrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-spencer-academies-trust

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