Finance Officer
Chulmleigh College
Devon
- £13.47 - £14.36 per hour
- New
- Salary:
- Grade D
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 February 2025
Job overview
Chulmleigh Academy Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, organised and friendly person to join our committed and hardworking finance and administrative team.
The role is to provide comprehensive finance and administrative support to ensure the smooth day to day operation of tasks within specific areas of the Academy and maintaining and devising efficient and effective financial and administrative processes and procedures.
The successful candidate will need to be confident with excellent interpersonal, communication and IT skills. The post holder will need to be able to prioritise work to meet deadlines and maintain a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail. This interesting and varied role will include shared responsibility for purchase orders and producing reports and supporting a wide range of financial and general administrative services within the Academy.
Experience of working in a school finance or admin team environment would be an advantage, although not essential as training will be provided.
We are pleased to offer this permanent post for 21 hours per week x 41 weeks per annum (term time plus 2 weeks during the summer holidays to support year-end audit). The working pattern is to be agreed at interview.
This role is based at Chulmleigh College and will involve working with the other schools within the Trust.
Employment benefits include eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme. In addition, employees of the Trust are entitled to 50% off childcare fees at our out of school clubs for children of compulsory school age.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community.
The candidate pack (including job description) and application form are available on our website. Completed application forms to be emailed to personnel@chulmleigh.devon.sch.uk by 10am on Monday 3rd February. All applications will be acknowledged.
As employers, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and in that regard have appropriate policies and procedures. All staff undertake a criminal record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and interviews will include questions about safeguarding children.
In line with Government guidance, we may carry out online searches against shortlisted applicants’ names as part of our due diligence checks.
Closing date: 10 am Monday, 3rd February 2025
Interview Date: Wednesday, 12th February 2025
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About Chulmleigh College
Chulmleigh College is a successful and ambitious rural secondary school with a strong reputation for high standards. The progress of our pupils is consistently amongst the best in the region.. In 2024 our provisional Progress 8 Figure of +0.81 places us in the top 5% of schools nationally.
The College was totally rebuilt a few years ago, with the completed buildings opening in 2017. Numbers have grown substantially in recent years, from 500 to the current roll of 750, and most year groups are oversubscribed; due to both our excellent reputation and the College’s successful transport service, which brings in approximately 25% of our pupils from outside the school catchment area.
We aim to create ambition and inspiration and want our young people to achieve all that they can in a safe, caring and well-disciplined environment. We commit ourselves to providing a learning experience which ensures high challenge, inspires, and provides both the range of qualifications and the start in life which will last forever. We aim for our young people to have the foundation and independence they need to make the progress they are capable of, building resilience for their future lives.
As a school we value courtesy, hard work and respect, and set high standards of behaviour; promoting self-discipline, resilience, responsibility and working together as a community.
We offer a broad and rich curriculum, enhanced by excellent extra-curricular activities; our outdoor education in the form of Ten Tors and Duke of Edinburgh is particularly strong. As well as having high academic achievement, we also have a proud record in sport, music, drama and art.
Our pupils read an astonishing amount of literature and develop themselves by making the most of the array of opportunities available. This is all possible because teaching and support staff create the best opportunities for our pupils. We are very proud of our team, who work hard to make our school a happy place where we learn together in a formal, warm environment. We are also proud of the excellent relationships we have with our pupils, families and friends within the community.
Chulmleigh is a Saxon hilltop market town in North Devon, near the Mid Devon border. It lies near the banks of the Little River Dart, and is surrounded by rolling hills, woods and farmland. With Exmoor and the North Devon coast to its north, and Dartmoor and the city of Exeter to its south, Chulmleigh is in a beautiful part of the county and is easily accessible from all other areas.
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