Finance Assistant - Full-time/Part-time

The Folkestone School for Girls, Folkestone

Ref:KCC886-5437-209S
Posted:15/03/2024
Pay:FSG Pay Scheme Band 4 Points 11-14
Start Date:May 2024
App Close Date:05/04/2024 at 12:00
Interviews:Short listed candidates notified by 15th April

Advert

Finance Assistant – Full time – part time considered.
Required for May 2024
FSG Pay Scheme Band 4 Point 11-14 FTE (£23,060 - £23,973 pro rata)
Actual Salary £21,037 - £21,870
37 hours per week. Term time + Inset + 2 weeks.

We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what girls get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.

At the Folkestone School for Girls, girls do not complete an excessive number of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the very best grades within these, but also time to participate in co-curricular activities and interests, both at school and at home. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child. A justifiable balance between intellect and character.

We seek to appoint a detail oriented, dynamic problem solver with strong mathematical skills for May 2024 to join our vibrant and successful team. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the finance officer, the administration of school trips, and assisting with school based financial administration as required. Ability to use IT systems such as Wisepay, Sage and SIMS would be an advantage, but not essential as training will be provided.

Applicants should have good interpersonal skills, be computer literate, numerate and have a flexible approach to work and the ability to work well under pressure.

You will need great people skills, resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG Girls.

You’ll also be able to get involved with our unique personal development and character education programme, The FSGBacc, which encompasses all sorts of activities – from our very own escape room or radio station through to our extensive Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme or our Combined Cadet Force Contingent! Sport, Music, Debate, Drama, Dance, Adventure – something for everyone!

You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.

Details of this position and an application form are available

on our website www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

or by email: KWhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

Only applications submitted on the school or Kent Teach application forms will be considered

Closing Date: 5^th April 2024 at midday

Short listed candidates will be notified by 15^th April 2024

The Folkestone School for Girls is committed to the protection and safety of its students.

Applicants should be aware that we use the Disclosure and Barring Service to assess suitability for positions of trust.

Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education Legislation.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Information about the school

The Folkestone School for Girls is driven by the unshakeable belief that exam results are what you get; they do not define who you are and will play only a part in shaping the person you become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do! We want all girls to have the opportunity to explore and excel, to learn and to grow - not only in the classroom but beyond it. Alongside our unique personal development and character education programme, the FSGBacc, our international outlook is also at the heart of what we do and equally vital to our ethos; we want our girls to know that as human beings there is much more that unites us than divides us.

We believe that our curriculum should not just interest and inspire the girls, not just reflect and respond and be relevant to the world we live in but that we need to be much more ambitious; that the curriculum we teach should help to change the world for the better: a curriculum that teaches our girls to value themselves, value each other, value the world we live in and the world around them. A curriculum for values. A curriculum for empathy. A curriculum for wisdom.

A curriculum to change their world. A curriculum to change the world.

Our ambition for our school is to be the best in the world; nothing less. To be world leading and world changing; to know the whole child/every child and have a curriculum which develops the whole child/every child.

Our ambition for our girls is that they leave us after seven years well qualified and well rounded; intellect and character. They will feel ten feet tall, be bold and spectacular. They will have the knowledge, the skills, the drive, the courage, the wisdom, the optimism and the values to change the world for the better.

Intellect & character. This is our curriculum. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. We are extremely proud of it.

Come join us.

Job Contact Information

Name:Kathryn Whawell
Address:The Folkestone School For Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB
Telephone: 01303 251125
Email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

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