School Business Manager - Oakley Church of England Combined School
Location: Oakley
Overview
We are seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic and knowledgeable School Business Manager to join our team at Oakley. The School Business Manager role is a crucial one within our small village school, managing the school's finances, human resources, facilities, and operations, ensuring the school runs smoothly and effectively.
Oakley CE Combined is a small village school with approximately 100 children, situated in the beautiful village of Oakley, Buckinghamshire. Our Christian values are at the heart of everything that we do to support our children develop intellectually, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually.
Term time only
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Bucks band 5 (£33,158.00 - £35,725.00)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours a week, 42 weeks a year
Closing date: 06/05/2025 16:00
Interviews to be held: To be confirmed
About us
At Oakley Church of England Combined School our three core values of Love, Honesty and Respect underpin all that we do from our creative curriculum, inspirational teaching and learning, developing church and community links, collaborations with local schools and partnerships with parents and families.
Website: www.oakleycecombined.co.uk
About the role
The role is a term time only, permanent one working 37 hours per week for 42 weeks per year, including school inset days.
About you
We’d love to hear from you if you,
• Are an experienced School Business Manager or have had similar roles in operational and strategic management of finance, payroll, contract management/premises, H&S, HR
• Have competent financial skills to manage the school budget, and understand and analyse data
• Are efficient and effective in your working practices and able to prioritise well
• Are an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills who can foster strong relationships with our pupils, staff, parents and our wider school community verbally and in writing
• A kind and caring person, who supports our Christian ethos and school vision of ‘Mighty oaks from little acorns grow’.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01844 238364
Email: [email protected]
Oakley CE Combined School is committed to safeguarding all children. Successful candidates will require a DBS clearance and suitable references before commencing employment. Online checks will be carried out prior to interview.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
