School Business Manager
St Thomas Moorside CofE (VA) Primary School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 4RL16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
28 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.66 hours per week, term time plus 10 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,434 - £38,220
What skills and experience we're looking for
- NVQ level 4 in Business Administration or Accounting, or equivalent or be willing to work towards and gain qualification within 2yrs OR Certificate in School Business Administration (CSBM) or Diploma in School Business Administration (DSBM) (or a willingness to work towards)
- Willingness to gain a basic first aid certificate.
- Experience of development management and evaluation of administrative systems to ensure continually effective and efficient service delivery.
- Experience of a range of financial tasks and responsibilities including handling and accurately accounting for cash, budget planning, management and monitoring, and authorising payments from committed expenditures.
- Experience of taking accurate minutes at meetings.
- Experience of undertaking a range of line management activities and motivating a multi-disciplinary team effectively to meet targets and complete work to required standards.
- Experience of producing management and statistical information clearly in a way that can be understood by others.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills appropriate for a range of different audiences, including skills where appropriate in being persuasive, encouraging and negotiating, in order to further the objectives of the school.
- Interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective working relationships with all pupils and colleagues.
- Analytical skills to be resourceful and solve varied problems, through using judgement to interpret information and situations.
- Organisational skills to work under pressure to prioritise and re-prioritise own workload and that of the team to meet potentially conflicting deadlines.
- Knowledge of financial regulations/relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of legislation relating to schools and children's education.
- Knowledge of key areas of legislation affecting personnel, estate management and health & safety.
- Knowledge of data protection, and information security and an understanding of why it is important to keep information confidential and secure within the school environment.
- Knowledge of equality and diversity issues within the school environment and an understanding and commitment to provide equal opportunities for all.
- Understanding why Safeguarding is important when working with children and young people/
- To work occasionally out of hours to support school functions.
- To work flexibly as the workload demands.
What the school offers its staff
- To work collaboratively with our other school in the Federation.
- To aspire to work towards or already hold the SBM Level 4 qualification
- Full training on the school’s management information systems & HR support from our partner ‘working with schools’
- Lead an energetic team consisting of 1ft Administrator & 1x20hrs Administrative assistant
- Mentoring into the role by the experienced SBM from St James’
Further information about the job
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
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About St Thomas Moorside CofE (VA) Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 240 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Thomas Moorside CofE (VA) Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@doveshell.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01616249290
East Crompton St. James’ and St Thomas’ Moorside entered into a hard federation on 1st July 2015 after successfully working in partnership for 2 years.
The schools now have one Governing body who have the legal responsibility for both schools and is very ambitious in its vision for the Federation.
St Thomas’ Moorside CE VA Primary School
St Thomas Moorside is situated within a deprived area of predominantly social housing. The school demographic is majority white British heritage, but with an increasing level of ethnic minority intake. Children largely live in very close proximity to the school. Pupils mainly enter from St Thomas nursery setting, but an increasing proportion are admitted from other nursery settings in the area. The population in school is relatively settled with some movements in or out of school.
The school is a Church of England Voluntary Aided school. The Manchester Diocese RE syllabus is delivered. Pupils attend church for the main Christian festivals and the church’s vicar delivers worship to the whole school weekly. In the SIAMS inspection of June 2025 the school was judged to be living up to its foundation as a Church school and is enabling pupils and adults to flourish.
The current Ofsted grade is Good from an inspection in July 2024.
Deprivation: 53.6% of pupils are in the most deprived 5 to 10% in the country (compared with Oldham Primary Schools average of 30.7%)
Pupil Roll: There are 233 pupils currently on roll.
Groups: FSM/PP: 45% SEN: 2% EHCP, 10% SEN other EAL: 9%
East Crompton St James’ is situated in a large village on the outskirts of Oldham, bordering Rochdale. This is an average-sized school with capacity for 210 pupils on roll from Reception to Year 6 and is situated near the parish church in spacious buildings. Housing is mainly privately owned. Pupils are mainly of white British heritage and most live in the local community. Pupils enter from a variety of nursery settings in the area. The population in school is settled with few movements in or out of school. FSM/PP has risen from 12% in 2012 to 33.3% in 2022 & 41% in 2023
The school is a Church of England Voluntary Aided school. The Manchester Diocese RE syllabus is delivered. Pupils attend church for the main Christian festivals and the church’s curate delivers worship to the whole school weekly. In the SIAMS inspection of June 2024 the school was judged to be living up to its foundation as a Church school.
The school was inspected in November 2021 and retained its Good grade.
Deprivation: 14% of children are in the 10% most deprived in the country (compared with Oldham Primary Schools average of 30.7%).
Pupil Roll: There are 182 pupils currently on roll.
Groups: FSM/PP: 41% SEN: 4% EHCP, 4% Other SEN EAL: 5%
The Federation allows for a great deal of cross-school working, from planning with opposite year groups to lesson studies and joint wider educational opportunities. Staff meetings are held weekly with staff from both
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