Finance Assistant

Job Description

The Finance Office provides all the required finance service to allow the school to operate.

There are currently 2 staff who provide these services. The school acadamised at Easter 2013. Since that time it has been responsible for all aspects of its own finances. It will also shortly oversee the operation of a local primary school as a Multi-Academy Trust ("MAT"). The post is to provide services across the MAT.

Particular duties are likely to include:

Collating of invoicing for payment, receiving money, cash handling, inputting orders, filing, checking deliveries, administrative support to the management of the school premises. To provide other administrative services as required to support the school operation. The duties outlined may be varied to meet the changing demands of the school at the reasonable direction of the Headteacher.

Skills - Technical:

Experience of working in a busy and at times pressured environment is desirable. Experience of working with school finance (FMS) is desirable but not essential, together with experience of Microsoft Office and email systems. Work must be accurate and, if required, completed to deadlines.

Skills - Personal: These are the most important

The ability to work as part of a team,

• The ability to cope with pressure,
• The ability to get on with colleagues in a professional manner,
• To communicate effectively in writing and speech
• The ability to respond to challenges,
• The ability to respond to change,
• The ability to adapt working styles,
• The willingness to learn,
• The ability to act as a role model in any contact with pupils.
• A sense of humour

The school is committed to training and staff development, and will support the appointed person in the development of new skills as required. A degree of physical fitness is required. (e.g. lifting boxes of paper, checking/sorting deliveries of goods)

The working hours will be 25 hours per week: 10.00 am - 3.30 pm Monday to Friday for 39 weeks per year, with 30 minutes for lunch. These are normal school days (term time) and training days. Holidays would be expected to be taken during school holiday periods.

There is a smart dress code for staff.

Pay:

The pay is the equivalent of £16,781 pa. However as the job is only term time the pay works out at £8,481 pa. It is Band 2 mid-point on the Essex local government pay scales. There would be progression to the top of Band 2

The school will carry out an enhanced DBS check and medical screening as a condition of employment and the successful candidate must be prepared to be deployed across the MAT as required.

Closing date:

12 noon on Friday 7th July 2017.

Information about the School

Welcome to The Sweyne Park School, we are a larger than average mixed, 11-18 comprehensive school. The School became an academy on 1st April 2013 and opened its Sixth Form in September 2014.

Our school is a safe and happy environment and central to our school is a belief in respect - respect for yourself, respect for others and respect for the environment. We believe that our focus on respect leads to high expectations and excellent discipline, and this in turn leads to the highest possible achievement for each individual pupil. In December 2018 we were the first Secondary School in the East of England to achieve the prestigious Rights Respecting Gold Award.

At Sweyne Park we are determined to provide first class teaching and learning for all our pupils. This aim is supported by our commitment to recruiting and retaining the very best staff, and our nationally recognised programme of staff training. We do our utmost to ensure our pupils achieve strong examination results and progress on to high quality destinations. We provide a broad and balanced academic curriculum with a wide range of cultural, artistic, sporting and social opportunities. We are committed to very strong partnerships between home, school and community members. We believe that the whole community can contribute to motivating and supporting pupils’ progress. In October 2017, the Sweyne Park School and Glebe Primary formed a Multi-Academy Trust, the Rayleigh Schools Trust (“The RST”).