Finance Officer - Level 1 or 2

Heartwood Learning Trust, York, YO30 6ZS

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  5 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,434.00 - £42,839.00 Annually (Actual) Salary shown above is Full Time Equivalent of £34,434 to £37,280 (Grade I, Scale Points 23-26) for Level 1 and £39,862 to £42,839 (Grade K, Scale Points 29-32)

Finance Officer - Level 1 or 2 job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Officer to join our well established Central Finance Team on a fixed term basis. The role can be based at our Trust offices in York, Hull or Scarbrough, depending on the successful candidate's location. An ability and willingness to travel to the Schools and Academies across our Trust is vital.

Heartwood Learning Trust has fourteen Academies and Schoools located across York, Hull and North Yorkshire, comprising six secondary, six primary and two alternative provison settings. Our Trust’s values of Respect, Teamwork and Kindness underpin the vision ‘Life in all its fullness - a place to thrive’ and are central to all Trust activities and aims.

The Finance Officer role provides a budget and monthly management accounting role to nominated schools. The role, overseen by the Management Accountant, provides an essential finance link between our schools and our central team. The Trust operates an equitable finance model to ensure that all pupils are valued consistently while maximising investment into the educational provisions of our schools. This role will also work closely with school based finance administration roles to provide them with guidance and support. This role will be Level 1 or Level 2 dependant on skills and previous experience.

What we can offer:

• Opportunities for staff to develop through Continuous Professional Development

• Local Government Pension scheme

• Occupational Health

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full year holiday entitlement of 25 days plus bank holidays

Job Details

Hours of Work: 37 Hours per Week, Full Year Monday to Friday.

Position Type: Maternity Cover

Line Manager: Management Accountant

Travel Required: Yes

The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place week commencing 13th July 2026.

To arrange an informal discussion about the role, please email recruitment@hlt.academy.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Heartwood Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hope-sentamu-learning-trust

Thank you for showing an interest in joining our community of schools at Hope Sentamu Learning Trust.

Our vision is really very simple. We aspire to provide a place children and young people can thrive - life in all its fullness, a place to thrive. Our values are Kindness, Respect and Teamwork.

Here are our commitments:
A respectful and inclusive community, with a culture of thankfulness and appreciation, where we celebrate equality and diversity.
High quality first teaching across all of our schools, in every learning session, without exception.
A broad and balanced educational offer which develops all pupils academically, practically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, leading to great outcomes.
Resilient, sustainable and ethical leadership at all levels of the organisation.

Our Trust comprises of primary and secondary schools as well as alternative provisions. We are a community of fourteen schools, located across York, Hull and North Yorkshire. Our schools are supported by a central operations team and a central school improvement team.

Each one of our schools has its own distinctive character, identity and strengths which it brings to the table so that we all benefit from each other. Collaboration is at the heart of the way that we work across the Trust as every school has something to give and every school needs some help. This resonates with our Trust vision and values.

We are a new Trust, following a recent merger between Hope Learning Trust and Sentamu Academy Learning Trust in September 2021, so this is a very exciting time in our development. I am a big believer in building strong foundations so that we can concentrate on providing the best possible experiences and provision for the children and young people. It makes sense for us to do some things consistently so that we can do the basics really well. Colleagues from across the Trust have the opportunity to get involved in the development of Trust strategy so that our consistent ways of working and areas that we have alignment are developed at grass roots level. We see the alignment of key strategies across the Trust as an ever growing strength and way forward. This approach will get stronger and stronger as we develop and provides excellent career development opportunities for colleagues in all roles at all levels. Our school leaders play an important role in promoting a positive and collaborative culture across the Trust whilst delivering on the key Trust strategies within their schools.

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