Bursar
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Bishop Wordsworth's School
Wiltshire
- £75,863 - £87,870 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Leadership Pay and Local Government Pension Scheme
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Spring term
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2025
Job overview
Bishop Wordsworth’s School, a high-performing Grammar School, is seeking a highly motivated and visionary individual to join us as Bursar. This pivotal role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the success and strategic development of our school.
As a key member of the Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Headteacher and working closely with the Governors, the Bursar will provide strategic oversight and operational leadership across a range of essential areas, including finance, estates, and support services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Collaborating with the Headteacher and senior leaders to develop and implement the school’s strategic financial and operational plans.
- Finance and Operations: Managing the school’s financial systems, budgets, and reporting to ensure sustainability and compliance with academy funding requirements.
- Support Staff Management: Leading and inspiring the school’s support staff team, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
- Health & Safety and Compliance: Acting as the school lead on all health and safety matters, legal compliance, and administrative functions, with access to expert advice when required.
- Site and Estates Management: Overseeing the maintenance, development, and effective use of the school’s buildings and grounds.
- Income Generation: Identifying and developing new opportunities for income generation to support the school’s vision and priorities.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have strong financial acumen and experience in managing complex budgets;
- Demonstrate excellent leadership and organizational skills;
- Possess a strong understanding of compliance, health and safety, and estates management;
- Be a confident communicator, capable of building effective relationships across the school community and with external stakeholders;
- Have a proactive and innovative approach to problem-solving and income generation.
In return, we offer:
- The opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of an Outstanding school with a strong sense of community and a vibrant culture;
- A supportive and collaborative environment with a dedicated Leadership Team;
- A dynamic and varied role at the heart of Salisbury, with the iconic cathedral as our neighbour;
- Access to professional development and training opportunities to support your success in this vital role.
Bishop Wordsworth’s School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, a Section 128 Management check, and other relevant pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references.
How to Apply:
- Further details and an application pack are available on the school’s website. Please send your completed application form and covering letter to Mrs. A. Lloyd-Gilmour, HR Manager, via email at alg@bishopwordsworths.org.uk.
- If you do not hear by 10 March 2025, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
- We look forward to receiving your application and thank you for your interest in this exciting opportunity.
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About Bishop Wordsworth's School
Bishop Wordsworth's School is a unique school in a unique place. Our founder, Bishop John Wordsworth intended that his school should provide a centre of academic excellence in the heart of Salisbury. Since 1890 Bishop’s has fulfilled that mission and today we educate 1,176 students aged between 11 and 18 and which include approximately 130 girls in our now fully co-ed sixth form. Under the shadow of the Cathedral spire our eclectic buildings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, reflecting the school’s heritage. This creates a very special atmosphere in which students are conscious, on a daily basis, of their part in a long tradition of academic endeavour.
The school has remained true to its founder’s traditions by following three basic aims:
•To encourage all our students to develop their potential to the full by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement;
•To develop in all our students the integrity and the means to face confidently the challenges of a fast changing world;
•To inspire all our students to lead happy, purposeful and responsible lives.
Bishop’s enjoys a hard earned reputation as one of the finest schools in the country. The school is well known for its traditions of excellence, its strong links with the Church of England and the Cathedral, and its sense of pride in the school community. It became an Academy School in March 2011, enhancing its reputation for independence and outstanding quality in education.
Girls were welcomed to the Bishop’s Sixth Form from September 2020 and they now make up around 30% of the 400 Year 12 and 13 students that are on our roll. Standards are very high throughout, both in the curriculum and elsewhere and the young women and men of the sixth form provide outstanding leadership for the rest of the school. Almost all of our students progress to the most competitive universities, with some also securing high calibre degree apprenticeship positions.
Boys take an 11+ selection test for admission to Bishop’s. Academic standards are very high and are duly recognized as such by OfSTED, DfE and the media, but excellence permeates all other areas of school life. School Sport is exceptionally strong, and the traditions in Music and Performing Arts are impressive. The school is characterised by a culture of challenging students to do their best while, at the same time, offering them the support that they need to do really well. Older students are asked to take leadership responsibilities and operate as role models and mentors for those in lower years.
We place great importance on delivering an all round education for all of our students. Bishop’s enjoys an incomparable environment in the shadow of the highest cathedral spire in England, and many major school events take place in the Cathedral during the school year. Facilities for learning and teaching are already excellent, and further development of the school site continues.
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