Job Description
Contract : Fixed term until Easter 2025
Working Pattern: Term time only (38 weeks)
Hours: 15 hours per week, flexible (to be discussed at interview)
Actual Starting Salary (calculated pro rata): £8472 per annum
Are you a detail-orientated professional with experience of finance and HR administration? Do you thrive in a busy environment where you an make an impact to children's education? If so, this could be the perfect role for you!
Key responsibilities include;
1. administration of finance and payroll
2. supporting recruitment activity
3. providing guidance to academy staff on its policies and procedures
To find out more, please refer to the job description.
Blackthorns Community Primary Academy
Blackthorns is a vibrant primary academy in the beautiful village of Lindfield, near Haywards Heath in West Sussex. We currently have 210 pupils on-roll in our 7 classes, with one class in every year. It also hosts a special facility for up to 8 children with additional learning needs and speech, language, and communication difficulties.
As a community primary academy, our role within our local community is very important to us. Our strong relationships with parents are crucial, since it is when schools and parents work closely together that children progress best both academically and as people. Working as we do with children every day is both a responsibility and a privilege.
We truly value the experience, dedication, and commitment of all our employees and believe in the power of motivated and happy staff. This is why we seek to enrich and reward our employees wherever we can, by offering a wide range of exciting and useful employee benefits. These include:
4. Automatic annual pay increments
5. High quality continuous professional development and support for your career progression
6. A strong commitment to your health & wellbeing including; onsite Wellbeing Champions, designated Mental Health Ambassadors, flexible working opportunities from Day 1, and Employee Assistance programme
7. Generous public sector pension scheme
8. Discounts on retail & travel
9. Cycle 2 Work scheme
10. Charity giving
As the largest Multi-Academies Trust in Sussex, we are a close-knit family of schools committed to achieving ambitions, delivering excellence, and nurturing potential. Sponsored by the esteemed University of Brighton, we provide high-quality learning experiences for our pupils.
Our success is a result of the dedication and expertise of our staff and central teams, creating vibrant places of learning that ignite curiosity and foster a lifelong love of education. Together, we aim to inspire our children and staff to flourish and achieve their best.
At the heart of everything we do are our pupils. We believe that learning should be exciting, engaging, and fun – an adventure where curiosity is celebrated, and creativity is encouraged. We strive to create an environment where each child feels inspired and supported, enabling them to discover their unique talents and interests.