Deadline is tomorrow

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    24 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    12 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week and the working pattern is 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Thursday / 08:00 - 15:30 Friday. Term Time plus 3 weeks during school closures: 1 week at Easter, 1 week in Summer, 1 week as needed (42 weeks per year).

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Kent Scheme KR8 £27,340 - £30,898 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Finance and Payroll Officer to oversee the financial and payroll operations. The key areas of focus are ensuring financial controls are adhered to across the school, responsible for end to end payroll procedures, and supporting the Business Operations Manager with management of the finance function.

The successful candidate will ideally have previous payroll and school finance experience, however full training will be provided. We are looking for an ambitious candidate that may have aspirations for a School Business Manager role in the future.

What the school offers its staff

Why work at our school?

  • A clear commitment to staff wellbeing through our wellbeing charter, including workload reviews, wellbeing meeting slots, paid staff social organiser, wellbeing spaces and free use of our professional fitness suite
  • Outstanding facilities, including our community farm, fitness suite, recording studio, expansive library, new MUGA and professional performing arts spaces.
  • Very strong use of IT across the school including 1-1 laptop scheme and interactive touch screens in all classrooms.
  • Performance management reviews take place annually in September with the opportunity for a performance related pay increase once an employee is eligible i.e. has been employed long enough for evidence to be provided

Commitment to safeguarding

Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.

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About Northfleet School for Girls

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1283 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01474 831020

Northfleet School for Girls is a vibrant and caring school with a great community feel. Over recent years we have been growing rapidly (62% increase in student roll since 2017) and we believe this is down to the following key areas:

- A real passion to develop the whole student as well as achieve excellent academic progress
- A dedicated staffing team who really care and a clear commitment by leaders to staff wellbeing
- Great student behaviour and engagement, allowing staff and students to flourish

Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:

- High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
- Working together through truly valuing positive working relationships with staff, students and parents
- Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.

We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:

- Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
- Continued oversubscription across school
- A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
- Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
- A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future

Arranging a visit to Northfleet School for Girls

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.annable@nsfg.org.uk.

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