School Business Manager
Harry Gosling Primary School, London, E1 1NT11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
22 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, Term time + 3 weeks (includes INSET days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £49,638- £51,663
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and ambitious School Business Manager to join our forward-thinking team.
The successful candidate will have the skills and energy to lead on finance, administration, premises (including project management) and HR in the school.
The successful candidate will need to:
- Put the needs of the pupils first and be committed to contributing towards school improvement
- Have excellent communication, IT and interpersonal skills
- Have plenty of initiative, drive and the desire to make a difference
- Be highly organised and capable of handling varied workloads, sometimes under stressful situations
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS clearance. We are dedicated to equality and valuing diversity.
We encourage and welcome potential candidates to visit our school. Please email recruitment@harrygosling.towerhamlets.sch.uk or telephone 0207 481 1650 to arrange a visit.
What the school offers its staff
Harry Gosling Primary School recognises that our staff are the most important resource and are to be valued, supported and encouraged to develop personally and professionally within a learning and caring community.
We offer an unrivalled package of support, professional development and social opportunities to maximise your well-being and to enable you to fulfil your professional and personal potential – whilst having a great time!
Personal Growth and professional development at Harry Gosling:
We offer financial benefits including:
- Financial contributions towards external courses that support individual’s professional development and contribute to the priorities of the school (e.g. Masters, Foundation Degree).
- Financial contributions towards additional support for staff (e.g. Dyslexia testing).
Other well-being benefits include:
- Supportive line management structures
- Termly celebrations for all staff
- Generous time is provided for subject leaders to fulfil their duties
- Time is set aside for tasks such as moderation
- Frequent access to subject specialists – currently all staff plan medium term English units with a specialist and are given extra time to do this
- No meetings weeks planned for busy times e.g. parents’ evenings, assessment weeks
- All teaching and support staff entitled to a moving day
- Access to a leadership coach
- Flu vaccinations are offered to all staff free of charge
- Staff medical and health support
- Staff receive personal deliveries to the school office (deliveries are accepted on the assumption that the products are appropriate to be delivered and the school is not responsible for the delivery)
- Free tea, coffee and milk to all staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Harry Gosling School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and medical clearance. We are dedicated to equality and valuing diversity
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
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About Harry Gosling Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 437 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harry Gosling Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@harrygosling.towerhamlets.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02074811650
INFORMATION ABOUT HARRY GOSLING PRIMARY SCHOOL
Harry Gosling is a two-form entry school with approximately 450 pupils, from Nursery to Year 6. 82% of pupils have a language other than English as their first language and 91 % live in households where another language is spoken.
There are four things that make our school so special, and, we feel, somewhere so rewarding to work:
Our children
Our children are, quite simply, fantastic! Behaviour at Harry Gosling is excellent and the pupils enjoy coming to school and are excited by their learning. This good behaviour makes a strong contribution to their learning. Inclusion is at the heart of what we do at Harry Gosling. We include children with a wide range of abilities and needs, including those who are exceptionally able and those who have additional learning needs and EHCPs.
Our staff
Our staff is a mixture of people who have worked in the school over an extended period, as well as those who are recently appointed. Staff members are lively, friendly, supportive and committed and between them have an impressive range of skills and a great sense of humour.
The school offers excellent Continuous Professional Development for all staff in all roles. We are very much a learning community, and we are only looking for staff who are like-minded and seek to better themselves and embrace new ideas and new challenges. This is not a school to stay still in. We encourage staff to take on initiatives and to try new things. We have very high standards, and our staff is expected to be ambitious and determined to excel, both for themselves and for the children they support. We offer ITE through our London-Exeter Partnership and are part of THEP (Tower Hamlets Education Partnership).
Our community
Harry Gosling is a thriving school serving a wonderful community. We are a school committed to inclusion and respect and our ethos pervades everything we do. We have high expectations of our pupils both in terms of attainment and behaviour. We respect and welcome our community into the school.
Parents take an active interest in their children’s education, are in regular contact with teachers and give us a great deal of support and encouragement. This is a healthy partnership which the school encourages. There is also a lively and involved Governing Body, which is extremely supportive of the school.
Our vision
Everyone at Harry Gosling shares our vision for excellence. We have a clear statement of aims (which you will find on our website), and we have one simple, clear motto, shared by us all. Every day at Harry Gosling, we are all ‘Learning to shine in everything we do’. Everything that we do is underpinned by our four core values of Excellence, Teamwork, Responsibility and Equality.
We are proud of the creative approach we take to providing pupils with meaningful, exciting learning opportunities, both through our curriculum and through the pedagogical approaches we adopt. We are well provided with resources for teaching across the curriculum. We have invested considerably in creating an exciting learning space for all children, both inside and outdoors. Visits to a wide range of local venues and those which are further afield are frequently made in order to support learning across the curriculum. A range of clubs are offered to all children, so that they can develop their talents and interests. Likewise we invite visitors from such venues to the school.
You can find out more about our school by visiting our website at www.harrygoslingprimary.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Harry Gosling Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@harrygosling.towerhamlets.sch.uk.
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