office manager Leigh, Dorset, South West England, England
Job description
Term Time only plus 2 weeks - Working hours: 37 hours per week
We are seeking to appoint an Operations Manager to organise, co-ordinate and deliver effective school administration and operations in order that financial, human, health and safety, ICT and facilities management activity is appropriately managed within the school.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
- Ability to manage finance, school budgets, etc.
- Overseeing of the school health and safety procedures
- Updating/maintaining in school policies
- Reviewing and managing parent complaints
- Overseeing the running of the in-house school canteen
Salary: G9 £36,640 - £41,419 pay award pending
Actual salary: £32,755- £37,020, starting salary £32,755
Successful candidates will:
- Show a willingness to be flexible and support the school when needed
- Bring rigour and an eye for detail and experience to our ambitious school
- Be professional and approachable.
In return we can offer:
- A forward thinking and innovative Senior Leadership Team
- An open and transparent workplace that has an honest and respectful culture
- Friendly and enthusiastic children
- Caring, friendly colleagues with a strong team spirit and a positive attitude
- Supportive parents and Academy Councillors
The Westleigh School enjoys a successful partnership with the Shaw Education Trust, which is a growing multi academy trust led by an Executive Leadership Team steeped in school leadership and improvement experience. Working with the Shaw Education Trust also allows colleagues to access a large range of well-established training opportunities and work alongside like-minded professionals across a range of schools.
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme / Teachers Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (28 days holiday rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service + Paid Bank Holidays) – Support Staff Only
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:
- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML.
- High quality subject and thematic networks across the Trust and the region.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
To Apply, click https://ce0524li.webitrent.com/ce0524li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=17491515f0&VACANCY_ID=3165063bW9
The Westleigh School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
Application deadline: Wednesday 19thJuly 2023
Interviews: Thursday 20thJuly 2023
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 37 per week
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 19/07/2023
