Finance & HR Assistant
The Meads Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 2UE12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Immediate
Closing date
20 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,133.00 Annually (Actual) Pay Award Pending
Finance & HR Assistant job summary
We are seeking to recruit a friendly and positive Finance and HR Assistant to join the school admin team and continue to provide a welcoming and efficient service to parents/carers, staff, governors, visitors and, most importantly, children who make up our friendly school community.
The Meads is a happy, fun and exciting place to work – we are looking for the best person possible for us, so you will need to be highly motivated, committed, energetic and with good qualifications and experience.
As a Finance and HR Assistant, under the direction of the School Business Manager, you will assist the school in meeting its obligations and targets in relation to school finance and HR administration.
Whilst the role has core responsibilities, the School Finance Office is a unique environment which makes the role hugely varied on a daily basis. Therefore, a broad range of personal skills, flexibility and a dynamic positive personality are important.
The successful candidate(s) will:
- Be enthusiastic, motivated and able to use their initiative.
- Have a positive friendly and caring approach towards staff, children and the community
- Be professional, organised, flexible and able to work calmly under pressure.
- Be able to efficiently manage, prioritise and organise a varied and demanding workload
- Have a good understanding of how a school works.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Be an outstanding team player.
- Have excellent IT, numeracy and literacy skills.
The post is for 30 hours per week, term-time plus 5 additional days for INSET and a further additional 5 days as agreed by the School Business Manager.
A working day could be as follows:
Monday to Friday: 9.15am – 3.45pm or 9.00am - 3.30pm (30-minute unpaid lunch break) These hours may be negotiable for the right candidate.
Please refer to the attached application pack for further information and use the Job Description / Person Specification to aid you in your supporting statement. Relevant qualifications and training are an advantage but not essential.
Visits to the school are very welcome and highly encouraged; In the meantime, please visit our website – www.meads.luton.sch.uk – to find out more about us. Please call our School Business Manager, Miss Ansell, on 01582 490905 or email finance@themeads.primaryluton.co.uk to arrange a visit.
In the meantime, check out our Facebook page and visit our website – www.meads.luton.sch.uk – to see our work and find out more about us.
You will be contacted via My New Term soon after if you have been shortlisted for interview.
Please note that if you are shortlisted for this role, or an alternative role, an online name search will be undertaken, as per Keeping Children Safe in Education. The purpose of the search is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school or college might want to explore with you at interview. Further information on how online searches will be undertaken can be found in our schools Recruitment and Selection Policy.
Applicants for this public-facing post will need to demonstrate the ability to converse, and provide effective help or advice, fluently in spoken English.
CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Commitment to safeguarding
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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 The Meads Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 515 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Meads Primary School website (opens in new tab)
We are a large primary school with approximately 520 pupils on roll at the moment and with a capacity for 630 pupils in the future.
The Meads Primary School is a friendly, Values-based School, situated in the Limbury Mead area of the vibrant and diverse town of Luton, with a strong, nurturing ethos. Rated ‘good’ in all areas by OFSTED in 2018, we have been awarded several accolades over the years, including Quality Lead Status for our work in raising the achievement and aspiration of all pupils by Achievement for All, and the prestigious Values Education Mark, recognising the excellent work of the school in promoting and engendering positive values in our children and across our curriculum. Most recently we achieved a Gold rating from Modeshift stars for our work in promoting sustainable travel to and from school and have been accredited with the Primary Science Quality Mark for our work in developing science across the school. We encourage children and staff to develop a ‘growth mindset’ when it comes to their potential to ‘build their brains’ and be the best they can be.
Our school ethos is positive, friendly and welcoming with the aim of providing a fun, safe and nurturing environment in which pupils are valued and want to participate, and children enjoy their time with us. Our core values of kindness, resilience, respect, responsibility and joy reflect our school and the children who come here.
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