Cluster Finance Assistant

Job description / Role

Job overview

Bacon’s College was established in the Surrey Docks peninsula in Rotherhithe, South East London in 1991 as a City Technology College, becoming an academy in 2007 and joined the United Learning Trust in 2018. Bacon’s has long been an important part of the fabric of the local community in south east London and has served the community in its various forms for over three hundred years. We are proud of that history and contribution and of the way the College has evolved and adapted to meet the needs of its young people.

Bacon’s is a thriving community that is welcoming of students of all faiths and those of none. Staff and students value the distinctive nature of its Christian ethos to which every member of its community contributes. It celebrates the differences that define it as well as the common humanity that unites all its members. The value system and ethos of Bacon’s is inclusive of all within a strong Christian ethos, characterised by the quality and openness of the positive relationships between students, staff and the wider community. These are foregrounded in our lessons but also in our extra-curricular offer, ranging from sport and debating to charity work and peer mediation.

Today, Bacon’s sits in modern and well-equipped facilities in an area that is rapidly changing and growing. We are fortunate to offer fantastic media and IT facilities and excellent sporting provision. Learning is at the heart of everything we do, and we have the highest aspirations for our students, determined that they can achieve and overcome any barriers that may lie in their path. A significant proportion of our students go on to university each year and a culture of aspiration and achievement is evident.

Bacon’s is embarking on a rapid improvement journey and many of the elements are already in place to make it a fantastic place to work and make an impact.

Job details

Salary: £30,000 per annum
Pay scale: United Learning Support Staff Pay Scale Group 1, Band 2, Point 1-6
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Directly reporting to: Cluster Finance Manager
Indirectly reporting to: Cluster Business Manager / Executive Business Manager

The role

Bacon’s College is home to the United Learning South East London Cluster. The Cluster staff serve four United Learning schools: Bacon’s College, Sedgehill Academy, The John Roan School and Connisborough College. We are seeking a qualified, vibrant, committed Finance Officer with an eye for accuracy to join the South East London Cluster under the line management of our Cluster Finance Specialist.

The Cluster Finance Assistant, under the direction of the Cluster Finance Manager, will provide financial administrative support to cluster finance team, undertaking tasks such as processing documents, data input and handling cash as well as dealing with external agencies, suppliers and school staff. The service will be provided to two secondary schools (Bacon’s College and The John Roan School) which are part of United Learning’s South East London Cluster.

About you

You will have a friendly and polite manner and will enjoy the opportunity to engage with staff across the four schools. Outstanding interpersonal skills are essential in support of building excellent relationships with staff at all levels, whilst always ensuring that safeguarding practices for a safer workforce are consistently applied and monitored. You will be able to input data accurately and produce reports for the senior leadership team and governors as needed.

You will join a friendly and supportive team that is hard-working and close knit with a shared mission of providing excellence to the schools it serves.

United Learning

Bacon’s College joined United Learning in Spring 2018, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff's wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide well-being programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.