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Coleridge Community College is a small, family and community orientated school in Cambridge. It’s a school where every child and staff member is known, developed, and supported. We value our staff highly and treat workload seriously. We are looking for someone that shares these values and passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs.
The post holder will be required to work in partnership with the Principal to bring about continuous improvement of the school in order to ensure high standards of academic achievement for pupils, high-quality teaching and learning experiences for pupils, and high standards of behaviour in lessons and around the school.
You will be joining a school that is ambitious for its future as well as the future of all its students and so are looking for colleagues who share that ambition and are uncompromising in their commitment to doing what it takes to secure the potential of the young people here.
Our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them. We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. We have high expectations and standards, and we teach through explicit/direct instruction (using the Rosenshine Principles) and utilising TLAC 3.0 techniques. In this way, we achieve strong GCSE outcomes, excellent student conduct, and a feeling of community throughout the College.
Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. We are unashamedly ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment, or needs. We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunity, and prepared them for the ups and downs of life.
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology. We embrace United Learning's aim to offer a life-changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
The successful candidate will manage a small team and work closely with the schools’ Principals and Senior Leadership Teams as well as the Trust’s Finance Business Partner and Management Accountant to provide prudent oversight and management of the schools’ finances.
You will work with the Executive Business Manager in providing high-quality strategic financial planning to ensure that all schools make the best possible use of its resources and can provide the best outcome for students.
Responsible for preparing budgets and feeding into annual forecasting, you will provide all aspects of financial management and control for the United Learning Cambridge Schools Cluster; including purchase order approvals, regular collaborative meetings with the Principals, and ad hoc financial reviews and analysis.
Your priorities will be to ensure timely processing of transactions by the finance team and prudent financial management within budget for each of the schools.
We will offer you:
* Community spirit in each of our inclusive and welcoming schools
* Excellent facilities and resources
* Talented, supportive, and professional colleagues
* Excellent training and development opportunities
* Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in our cluster of schools and Central Office
* Access to the enhanced Local Government Pension Scheme
* 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
* Enhanced parental leave options
* Access to over 250 employee benefits through Perkbox
* Free and Confidential Counselling and Support through an award-winning EAP and access to a free Wellness Hub
Please refer to the applicant information pack, job description, and person specification for further details.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check, and a further check against the appropriate barred list.
As a Group, we can reward our staff with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing and have an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as we reserve the right to end this advert at any time.
We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation, which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are also open to discussing flexible working options.
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