School Business Manager
Woodeaton Manor School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9TS9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time, permanent, 52 weeks per year, 37 hours per week to be worked Monday to Friday, with 30 days’ paid holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 12, point 35 – 38, £23.17 - £24.75 per hour, Actual Salary £44,711 - £47,754
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main purpose
The school business manager (SBM) is responsible for managing the operation of the business functions of our school, including financial management, health and safety, human resources, compliance, and administration.
They will advise on and implement the day-to-day support that enables the school to operate effectively and efficiently, and that allows other members of the leadership teams to focus on teaching and learning.
Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership
- Be responsible for line-managing site and administration support staff, including carrying out long-term resource planning and managing the end-to-end recruitment process, appraisal, and professional development
- Implement school-wide changes and allocate resources in line with school improvement plans, putting policies and procedures in place and communicating them to staff
- Take all decisions in line with the vision and values of schools, and encourage others to do the same
- Implement a marketing plan for schools, which utilises school websites, signage, the prospectus, and communications with current and prospective parents
Financial management
- Oversee the security and reconciliation of cash in hand and debtors on a day-to-day basis, ensuring money is banked, money owed is collected, and clear records are kept
- Ensure value for money within procurement of goods and services in line with Trust policy
- Manage school’s lettings offer
- Ensure the effective and efficient operation of the administration department, delegating tasks to finance/office staff where appropriate
Human resources
- Maintain the staff absence data in the Trust HR system
- Ensure that recruitment, appraisal, disciplinary and grievance policies are administered in accordance with employment law
- Advise on HR issues within schools and liaise with the external HR provider
Health and safety
- With headteachers and premises teams, supervise the maintenance of the school site
- Manage the school’s compliance with health and safety regulations, and put in place processes and procedures to ensure the safety of the school
- Organise health and safety training for staff
Compliance
- Manage school’s compliance with statutory obligations, and advise others on the relevant legal, regulatory, and ethical requirements
- Track all local school policies and ensure they are updated in accordance with the policy review schedule
Administration
- Keep records in accordance with the Trust’s record retention schedule and data protection law, ensuring information security and confidentiality at all times
- Provide administrative support for headteachers and the governing body
- Support the data protection officer with ensuring data protection compliance and helping the school community understand how to comply with data protection law
Safeguarding
- The school’s business manager will be required to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.
What the school offers its staff
What can we offer you
- The opportunity to work with a progressive and forward-thinking multi-academy trust, where you are making a difference to the lives of young people.
- Opportunities for development and career progression
- Extensive induction programme and ongoing CPD and training
- A range of staff benefits including one wellbeing day per term (after a qualifying period, pro rata for part time employees), access to an Employee Assistance Programme and a workplace pension scheme (LGPS)
- Free eye test for DSE users
- Free flu vaccinations
- Free tea and coffee
- Refer a friend bonus (up to £500)
- A positive and friendly 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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Woodeaton Manor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 18
- School size
- Up to 84 pupils
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Woodeaton Manor School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865558722
Welcome to Woodeaton Manor School. We are a daytime and residential Foundation Special School that offers a nurturing environment for 84 pupils. All our pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and they have social, emotional and mental health difficulties. We are able to offer places for pupils in Key Stages 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Woodeaton Manor caters for a wide range of special educational needs, including the following diagnosed or described conditions:
Attachment Difficulty
Autistic Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger’s Syndrome
Dyspraxia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Specific Learning Difficulties, i.e. Dyslexia
Speech and Language Disorder
Tourettes Syndrome
A large proportion of pupils have mental health issues and require extended support from a range of multi-professional services.
Woodeaton has extended its age limits twice since its re-designation. In 2009 Woodeaton established its Sixth Form provision and in June 2012, Woodeaton lowered the age limit to admit six Key Stage 2 age pupils who are taught in ‘The Nest’. Woodeaton also became a Foundation School on 1st April 2008.
Our school at a glance:
Woodeaton Manor School is the first school in Oxfordshire to be awarded the Quality Care Mark for Looked After Children (LAC) at an Outstanding level (January 2017). This mark demonstrates our school has excellent practice around those children in care and those caring for others.
Have a highly experienced and qualified staffing team
Provide high quality teaching and social experiences
Focus on personalised and individual needs of pupils
Work in a multi-professional way
Maximum class size of ten
High levels of staff support
In-house Educational Psychologist
A Readiness for Learning team who support pupils through interventions and/or outreach work. The team will also support pupils who might be struggling during the school day
Regular visits from an Occupational Therapist and a Speech and Language Therapist (one day a week and one day a fortnight respectively)
Provision of play therapy, if required
Regular whole school trips and residential experiences both in the UK and abroad
Specialist rooms for Art (including a kiln room), Food Technology, ICT and Science
Self-contained residential area for boys and girls
Excellent catering arrangements
Our school day starts at 8.20 a.m. every weekday and finishes at 2.30 p.m. every afternoon.
The total time in school for each pupil is 30 hours and 50 minutes.
Arranging a visit to Woodeaton Manor School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk.
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