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JOB TITLE: Trust Purchase Ledger Clerk
LOCATION: St. Martin's House, St. Martin's School, Hanging Hill Lane, Hutton, Essex
REPORTS TO: Director of Finance
SCALE: 3 / 4, depending on experience
RANGE: £21,247 to £22,303 actual pro rata salary, including outer fringe allowance
HOURS: 37 hrs per week / 40 weeks - full time or part time considered
Discovery Educational Trust is recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our high-performing Finance team, which supports five schools across the Trust to ensure the smooth, efficient and compliant operation of their finance practices. The role involves working closely with both the core team and with local finance teams in our schools.
The Trust supports the continuous employee development and following a successful probation period, welcomes conversations around further role-relevant training and/or qualification.
Discovery Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Information about the School
Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 students and 500 staff, across 5 schools.
Our schools are:
- Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea)
- St. Martin's School (Brentwood)
- Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood)
- Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood)
- Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood)
We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum.
Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do.
We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion.
As an equal opportunities employer, Discovery Educational Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (which includes ethnic origin, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Discovery Educational Trust.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.