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School Business Manager @ Three Bridges

School Business Manager @ Three Bridges

Three Bridges Primary School

Ealing

  • £46,182 - £48,501 per year
Salary:
Ealing Scale 11
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2025 (or earlier!)
Apply by:
16 October 2024

Job overview

Are you ready to help shape the future of education at the Happiest School on Earth? At Three Bridges Primary School, we don’t just aim for “Outstanding”—we aim for extraordinary. We believe that every child deserves an education that empowers them to become critical, creative, and compassionate citizens of the world. Now, we’re looking for a visionary School Business Manager who’s ready to lead with heart, passion, and purpose.

What You’ll Do:

As our School Business Manager, you’ll be the engine behind the scenes, making sure our school runs smoothly, efficiently, and joyfully. You’ll be leading on:

  • Financial Management: Overseeing budgets, ensuring financial health, and making decisions that allow us to continue providing a world-class education.
  • HR & Personnel: Supporting our exceptional staff by managing recruitment, contracts, and fostering a culture of growth, wellbeing, and professional capital.
  • Premises & Operations: Keeping our school safe, well-maintained, and always evolving to meet the needs of our community.
  • Strategic Leadership: Working hand-in-hand with the senior leadership team to dream big, innovate, and make bold decisions that move us all forward.

Who You Are:

We’re not just looking for experience; we’re looking for someone who shares our values and drive. You are:

  • Bold and Purpose-Driven: You’re excited to make a difference and aren’t afraid to take risks if it means doing what’s best for our children and community.
  • Financially Savvy and Organised: You have experience in financial management and operations and can balance the day-to-day with the bigger picture.
  • A People-Person: You understand that schools are about relationships—whether it’s managing staff or working with our wider community, you make everyone feel valued.
  • Innovative and Strategic: You bring fresh ideas and are ready to help us push boundaries and think beyond the norm.


Why Join Us?

At Three Bridges, we don’t just talk about values—we live them. We’re a family that thrives on collaboration, high expectations, and most importantly, happiness. You’ll be part of a team that’s committed to creating a school where staff, students, and the community grow and flourish together​(

Here’s what you’ll get:

  • A chance to work in a school that’s not just Incredible, but internationally recognised for its innovation and impact.
  • A vibrant, diverse, and inclusive school community that’s always learning, always improving.
  • Opportunities for professional development that stretch beyond the ordinary—here, you’ll be a leader, a learner, and a difference-maker.

If you’re ready to be part of something truly special, apply now and join us in shaping a brighter future for every child.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to visit the school prior to application. Please contact the school office to arrange a time suitable for you.


Closing Date & Shortlisting: Applications Due Wednesday 16 October 2024 by 12pm. Shortlisting will be completed no later than Friday 18 October. We will only be in touch with successful applicants.


How to Apply: Please review the Job Description & Person Specification before completing the Application Form. Completed Applications should be emailed to office@threebridgesprimary.co.uk for the attention of the Headteacher, Dr Jeremy Hannay.

 Interviews: Monday 21 October 2024

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About Three Bridges Primary School

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"This is a WORLD CLASS school" - World Class Schools QM

"An outstandingly HAPPY School" - Art of Brilliance

“The HAPPIEST school on earth” – The Guardian

"You are part of a FAMILY."

"You learn a lot and you make FRIENDS."


Three Bridges is an incredible school.  

While we exceed the basic goals of creating very literate and numerate children, our aim is much bolder; we are invested deeply in developing 3 core concepts:

A Developing, Critical Mind

We want your children to thrive at Three Bridges academically and achieve their full potential.  They will learn new things and share their learning with one another.  They will grow from challenge and support and learn to be critical of thoughts and ideas, knowledge and understanding, and most importantly, reflective towards themselves and the broader world.  We want them to engage curiously, courageously and collaboratively with what is said and read, but also have the depth to challenge critically and communicate confidently for what might be missing from the narrative.  We want them to develop into problem solvers, pathfinders and poetic thinkers.  This isn’t easy and it’s rarely in a straight line.  Excellence at Three Bridges stems from nurturing the whole person, through hard-earned accomplishment and sky high expectations.  This is reflected deeply in what they learn and how they learn across our curriculum.  We believe in developing their minds.

Eyes Wide Open, Hands Outstretched

As they navigate their way through Three Bridges, they will encounter globality, multi-ethnicity, inclusivity and adventure woven into the very fabric of learning.  We will encourage them to look at what’s behind them, what’s in front of them, what is all around them - and up to the sky.  We want your children to uncover the servant leader within them, becoming people that truly value and care for other people regardless of their individual strengths and struggles.  They will learn to balance and harmonise the delicate interaction of taking care of themselves - mind, body, soul - and prioritising the needs of others so we all succeed.  They will be listeners, laughers, and leaders in their own lives and in the lives of others.  We want their eyes wide open to the world so that they may make their own contribution on purpose - their own difference - with a moral compass that steers them towards building community, strengthening family, and deepening relationships. We believe in uncovering young people who have their eyes wide open to the world and hands outstretched to serve.

A Full, Strong and Healthy Heart

We know that the core of a world-class education is what’s developing on the inside of a child; not simply what they know and can remember, but who they become.  Character is not created after a week or a month - it is uncovered little by little, day by day, in everything that we do.   Developing genuine curiosity, wonder, and resilience takes work. Optimism in the face of adversity or kindness in spite of cruelty takes modeling and practice, intention and attention. We support the development of incredible young people: mind, body and soul.  We take their physical development as important as their academic development and we nurture within them a love of life.  We want them to grow up to love one another, animals and nature, the incredible scope of all living things and, most importantly, that they grow up learning to love themselves.  We believe that every child should have a full, strong and healthy heart.

We pride ourselves on providing an environment characterised by Professional Capital and Moral Purpose.  We hire the very best staff, provide them with excellent development opportunities, allow them to collaborate, research and innovate in order to make the best decisions for your children. We spend time leading learning in partnership with other schools  because we believe that those relationships make us stronger. 

Our work has been featured in a number of publications, including The Research Informed Teaching Revolution, Stop Talking About Wellbeing, Dame Reena Keeble's 'Best Practice in Primary', Teach Primary's 'Outstanding Schools', The Teacher, Primary School Management, Leadership Focus, Education Leadership and Management, John Hattie's Visible Learning: Feedback, @TeacherToolkit's Mark.Plan.Teach, Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools & The Financial Times.  The Guardian called us 'The Happiest School on Earth'. 

The journey of education is life-long and we would be honoured to take a few steps with you. 

Welcome to Three Bridges.

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