School Business Manager
Stanley Park Junior School, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3JL3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
15 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Mon - Friday 10am - 5.30pm (Some negotiation may be possible)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £46,041-£49,083
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Strategic leadership – develop and implement school policy.
- Financial management, budget control and procurement control to ensure financial sustainability and value for money.
- Manage the HR processes, including recruitment, payroll and promote staff well-being.
- Premises management and Health & Safety to ensure a good learning environment.
- Someone with previous experience of School Business Management OR alternatively equivalent experience in another field.
- Experience of finance and personnel management.
- An understanding of premises management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a commitment to the vision of our school.
- Someone who will relish the challenge of working in a busy school environment, working flexibly across different areas to meet deadlines whilst tackling the unexpected.
- Someone who has read the job description and person specification and feels they are well suited for this role.
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive, nurturing environment where all staff work collaboratively to ensure that our children get the best possible experience whilst at our school.
- A key role with the opportunity to impact the success of the school• Committed enthusiastic and supportive colleagues
- An ambitious and highly motivated senior leadership team
- An inclusive, nurturing culture and an ethos that recognises the contribution of every member of the school community
- Opportunities for professional development
- Employee Assistance Programme
- An appreciative and enthusiastic wider school community, with positive parents who care about our school
- Good public transport connections, a staff car park or free street parking
Further details about the role
Due to the retirement of the current School Business Manager (SBM), Stanley Park Junior School is looking to appoint a new SBM from June 2025. We are a successful, friendly and inclusive three-form entry Foundation School with a stable, strong and successful staff team. We were rated “Good” in our last Ofsted in September 2023. We seek to employ an enthusiastic and motivated person to work in this role as part of the Senior Leadership Team. The successful candidate will promote the highest standards of professional ethos, ensuring best practice and financial stability for the school.
The hours of work will be 32.5 hours per week all year round. Working Monday-Friday 10.00-5.30pm. (Exact timings may be negotiated.) Annual Leave Entitlement will be 5 weeks 1 day, plus bank holidays and 2 statutory days. Annual leave should mostly be taken during school holidays and in negotiation with the headteacher.
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 Stanley Park Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 370 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Stanley Park Junior School website
- Email address
- ghaldane@suttonmail.org
- Phone number
- 020 8647 7497
We are a three-form Foundation Junior School in the London Borough of Sutton and were rated 'Good' in our last Ofsted (September 2023). We are a successful, caring, and happy school that prides itself on a strong and stable staff team. Our school nurtures caring, confident and successful children with a 'Sense of Pride' in all they do. Governors, parents and staff work together to challenge and support children of all abilities to achieve their best. We are looking for a teacher who is committed to the well-being and pastoral care of children as well as their academic progress.
Arranging a visit to Stanley Park Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ghaldane@suttonmail.org.
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