Start date: 24 February 2025 Hours per week: 36.5, All year round West Heath Nursery School Near 200, West Heath Road Northfield Birmingham B31 3HB Telephone number: 0121 475 2672 Contact email: recruitmentwesththn.bham.sch.uk Contract type: Permanent Rubery and West Heath Nursery Schools are two successful Maintained Nursery Schools in Birmingham, which federated in 2022. We have children aged from 2 to 4 years serving the community in Rubery, West Heath and the surrounding localities. We are rated good schools, (Ofsted), where everyone works hard as a team to deliver the best possible education and outcomes for our children. With the upcoming changes to BCC schools finance and HR, we are seeking to appoint a new School Business Manager to work as a key member of the school leadership teams. This is a new position which could start immediately. The School Business Manager will contribute to strategic development as well as leading and managing functions such as financial management, HR, Premises, Administration and Health and Safety. We welcome applications from those with a strong finance and personal background and experience of working in a school environment. The successful candidate will: play a key role in overseeing the non-teaching aspects of school development, supporting the school in providing an exceptional learning environment and experience for our children and community be a member of the senior leadership team, taking the lead responsibility for the strategic development and operation of the business functions of our school which includes financial resource management, ICT and information management, facility and premises management, health and safety, human resources support as well as statutory compliance demonstrate outstanding business management practice have experience of leading and managing admin teams and act as an exemplary role model with experience of appraising and developing others be successful in financial management including income generation initiatives be able to communicate effectively with staff and visitors and work competently with a range of professionals be self-motivated and have personal drive to complete tasks to required timescales and quality standards We can offer you: a supportive and professional leadership team an opportunity to contribute towards maintaining two good schools forward thinking and ambitious schools positive and well-resourced learning environments with hard-working, and committed teams of teachers and TA’s a collaborative, supportive school community a commitment to professional development a Governing Board dedicated to supporting sustained improvement in raising standards Visits to the school (West Heath site) will be welcome on Tuesday 5 November 1.30pm to 4:00pm and Wednesday 6 November 9.30am to 4:00pm This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. How to Apply Obtain an application pack via our website. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. BCC is a Living Wage employer Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.