School Business Manager

Whitmore High School, Harrow, HA2 0AD

9 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  29 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  20 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £65,544.00 - £72,693.00 Annually (Actual)

School Business Manager job summary

School Business Manager Whitmore High School

MG2 (£65,544 - £72,693) Full-Time

Whitmore High School is an outstanding, inclusive aged 11-18 co-educational community school in Harrow, West London. We are looking for a School Business Manager who will share our vision of excellence, our commitment to collaboration, and our focus on inclusion and meeting the needs of every student.

Whitmore High School prides itself upon enabling every student to succeed. Our students make outstanding progress and achieve exceptionally well, within a respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We use the expertise of our 214 staff and our fantastic facilities and to deliver an inspiring curriculum and to provide a broad range of opportunities for our students to become well-rounded young adults.

The school is heavily oversubscribed and enjoys strong community support. Our intake of 270 students per year group include students into our two designated SEND provisions (autism and physical disability), and we have a vibrant Sixth Form of 375 students. We were inspected by OFSTED in March 2025 and, as at our previous visit in 2015, were again judged to be ‘Outstanding’ in all areas.

We are looking for a School Business Manager who will have the highest standards and expectations of everyone within our school community, and will display integrity and empathy. They will be supported in their personal and professional development to contribute positively to Whitmore High School and education within Harrow. Candidates who require further development to fulfil the role's responsibilities will receive comprehensive training in key areas.

Why work for Whitmore High School?

• State of the art building with well-equipped classrooms, excellent resources and modern facilities with free use of the on-site gym
• Fantastic support from your line managers who will develop you and want to see you succeed in your career
• Exceptional and wide-ranging CPD opportunities
• Staff Wellbeing group who promote a healthy work life balance and arrange activities such as staff yoga, on-site massage, weekly fruit, breakfast boxes, well-being garden, book club with free Kindle loan for staff etc., free annual flu jab

Please visit the school website to submit your application via My New Term https://www.whitmore.harrow.sch.uk/227/staff-vacancies

Please include within the application form a personal statement outlining your suitability for this role, what you would bring to Whitmore and how your skills and experience match the demands of the post. We reserve the right to interview early for this post should a suitable candidate apply.

Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 29th September 2025

Whitmore High School is an equal opportunities employer. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts working in schools are subject to an enhanced DBS clearance and two written references. Our CP Policy is available on the school’s website www.whitmore.harrow.sch.uk

All appointments are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and pre-employment checks. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, this post is listed as an exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Online searches may be completed for shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence checks. It is an offence to apply for any role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all posts are listed as exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Whitmore High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1739 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Whitmore High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/whitmore-high-school

Whitmore High School is a mixed comprehensive school with an excellent record of achievement.

Students are expected to achieve the highest standards of work and behaviour in a positive, friendly but disciplined atmosphere. Our staff are highly qualified and passionate about ensuring all students reach their full potential and we work closely with parents to achieve this aim.

At Whitmore High School we aim to provide the best possible education for all our students by:

* Promoting a broad and balanced curriculum in which students take an active part in their own learning.

* Recognising the needs of individuals, placing suitable high demands on them and stimulating them to achieve success.

* Encouraging students to aim for the highest standards of work and behaviour at all times.

* Creating an ordered and friendly community where relationships are positive and founded on courtesy, respect and shared values.

* Acknowledging the importance of links between home, school and the wider community.

* Maintaining a spirit of constructive self-criticism, regularly considering improvements to existing practice.

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