Finance Support Assistant
The Downs School, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 6AD23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP for the right candidate
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 8am
Date listed
23 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 12 Hours (3 hours/day for 4 days) Plus 1 Inset Day and 1 week during school holidays at Year End
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- West Berks Pay Scale Band E Actual Salary Range (part-time, term time only) £7,249- £7,851
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will
•have good numeracy skills
•be able to work effectively with spreadsheets, word processing software and Office 365
•have great attention to detail
•be a strong team player
•have a flexible approach to tasks
•be an excellent communicator
What the school offers its staff
In return you will
•experience a caring, positive ethos that prioritises staff wellbeing and recognition
•be empowered to work with ambitious, dedicated, capable staff who are deeply committed to supporting our wonderful school and its children
•work in a professional, stimulating, and collaborative working environment
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 are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Downs School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1405 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Downs School website
- Email address
- recruitment@thedownsschool.org
The Downs School, a Foundation, 11-18 comprehensive school, is a successful, oversubscribed and popular school serving the Downs area of West Berkshire. The roll is nearly 1300 with a well-established sixth form. Results at all levels are consistently above national averages and Ofsted described our students as having ‘excellent personal and social skills’ who ‘achieve well academically’.
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