Finance Officer
The Ecclesbourne School, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 4GS17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,598 to £30,024
Pay scale
- NJC Points 12 to 15
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a meticulous and proactive finance professional looking for a rewarding role at the heart of a vibrant school community?
Do you want to use your skills to make a direct impact on the education and future of young people?
If so, The Ecclesbourne School has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and skilled Finance Officer to join our supportive and friendly support staff team.
About the Role:
As our Finance Officer, you will be part of the cornerstone of our school’s financial health. This is a hands-on role where your work will directly contribute to providing an outstanding learning environment for our students. Your key responsibilities will be as outlined in the job description.
About You:
We are looking for someone who is:
- Qualified or experienced: Possess a relevant qualification, or have substantial, proven experience in a similar finance role.
- Has a keen eye for detail: Exceptionally accurate and numerate, with a methodical approach to tasks.
- A strong communicator: Able to explain financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues with patience and professionalism.
- Tech-savvy: Proficient in using finance software and Microsoft Office.
- Discrete and trustworthy: Able to handle confidential information with the utmost integrity.
- A team player: Collaborative, positive, and eager to be part of a school community.
What the school offers its staff
Why join The Ecclesbourne School:
- Make a real difference: See the tangible impact of your work on the school and its students.
- Supportive environment: Join a welcoming team in a school that values and invests in its staff.
- Professional Development: Opportunities for training and career development within our supportive academy.
- Local Government Pension Scheme: Immediate memberships of the Local Government Pension Scheme with a high percentage of employer contributions.
- Wellbeing: We value our staff and recognise the on-going contributions they make to the continued success of the whole school.
- The school motto: ‘Integrity. Tenacity. Service.’ is at the core of school life.
- School admissions: Children of members of staff, with a minimum of two years’ service at the school at the time of application, are included in our admissions criteria.
- Generous leave entitlement: 23 working days, rising to 26 working days after 5 years’ service, plus 8 Bank Holidays, plus 4 extra statutory days.
The reward for working at The Ecclesbourne School is more than financial.
Flexible working opportunities
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment will be conditional on a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Ecclesbourne School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1576 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Ecclesbourne School website
- Email address
- tspencer-keyse@ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332843257
The Ecclesbourne School aims to provide a first class education in a happy, well-ordered and purposeful atmosphere. We are a non-selective school and committed to an inclusive community ethos. We challenge all our learners to achieve their best.
The school is set in the village of Duffield, in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire. It is centred on the western bank of the River Derwent at the mouth of the River Ecclesbourne. Duffield is within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Area and its elevated surroundings are the southern foothills of the Pennines.
The school’s sporting facilities include an all weather surface, grass football, rugby and hockey pitches, netball courts, tennis courts, a large sports hall, a sprung floor dance studio and a fully equipped fitness suite.
Our English block contains twelve state of the art classrooms along with a theatre with tiered seating for up to 240.
Our Sixth Form Centre is a place of relaxation and study, with classrooms, a communal area, a deli bar and access to pastoral support.
High quality modern IT facilities exist throughout the school. All main teaching rooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards.
Wherever you are on our site you will find well maintained buildings full of happy students.
We believe that our students are all equally important. We encourage them to welcome and celebrate their inherent differences and we operate a fully inclusive system designed to ensure all our students achieve their full potential. We encourage students to value each other and the relationships they make. We have very high expectations and we challenge every member of our school community to raise their aspirations and develop the confidence to reach for the stars.
We are dedicated to improve continually the quality of education we provide. If you join us we expect you to take a full part in the life and work of the school, to meet the challenges that we offer and to endeavor to become an active member of our school community. The School’s motto, “Integrity, Tenacity, Service”, is as significant now as it was when the School opened its doors in 1957.
We employ a wide range of talented, well-qualified people capable of delivering a high standard of education and support for our students. You must be passionate about the power of education to improve the quality of life and the life chances of young people, driven to achieve better results through determination and commitment and motivated to work in partnership with everyone in the School. All staff are given the opportunity to access the training and support they need.
Our commitment to safeguarding: Our school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment will be conditional on a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions are considered “protected”. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and, if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice Website and on the websites of charities NACRO and UNLOCK.
Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a school we are passionate about diversity and recognize that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.
Arranging a visit to The Ecclesbourne School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tspencer-keyse@ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk.
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