School Business Manager - Full-time

St Peter's Church of England (VC) Primary School, Aylesford

• Ref:KCC886-3057-115S
• Posted:22/09/2025
• Pay:KSF £30,404 - £33,752
• Start Date:Monday 10th November or before
• App Close Date:07/10/2025 at 14:00
• Interviews:Friday 10th October

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Our long standing Business Manager is leaving us at the end of term 1, to take up a different, part time position as she alters her work life balance. Hence we are now advertising for someone to join us in her stead. We have set a start date four weeks from the date of interview, to allow the successful candidate to work any notice period, but if you could start sooner, that would be ideal.

Please have a look at our school website in order to get to know us more. St Peter's is a small, friendly school. The staff here are highly committed to our children, and work hard to provide the best education possible for them. You would be joining a small, professional team. Your role as Business Manager is highly rewarding. You are fundamental to ensuring both the smooth running of St Peter's and its longer term development. 

A detailed job description and skill set can be found in the accompanying documents. We have developed a role which suits a 5 day a week, term time only position, with a 7.30-3.30pm day. However, we have the flexibility to reduce the job description and hours of work, if you need that. We must recruit someone who can manage the finances of the school. If you can only work shorter hours, we can trim the job role and re-assign other responsibilities to accommodate you.

There will be occasions when you would be required to work certain days over holiday periods to meet fiscal deadlines. However, holiday working will only be required when there is a deadline to be met. 

Ideally you will have prior experience of school financial management. Having knowledge of the systems used in school would be a distinct advantage. As we are not part of an academy chain, you will have sole responsibility for the administration of financial and HR matters across the school, as is set out in the job description. Hence, ideally you will need to be suitably experienced in such matters and certainly with regard to financial procedures, payroll and accountancy. However, we do have links to other local schools and there would be support available from experienced school Business Managers to help you should you be new to this type of role. So please don't be put off if you have never worked in a school before!

Managing a school's finances is very different from the business world, where profit is obviously key. You would be helping to ensure small budgets are spent to the best possible effect for our children.

Please feel free to contact us. We encourage you to arrange a visit. The Headteacher is happy to show you around so that you can judge whether you would like to join us.

We are committed to recruiting with care, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As you would expect, all posts are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service, a check against the ISA Barred List for children and verification of the right to work in the UK.

Information about the school

St Peter's is a small, delightful village primary school situated in the medieval village of Aylesford, housed in a Victorian building and the old vicarage, opposite the village church. We take pride in our caring and supportive attitude to everyone at the school and aim to ensure that the continued professional development of all staff is a priority.

We currently have 205 children in seven classes. Due to our popularity, KCC have extended our original classrooms so that each can now accommodate 30 pupils. We expect to have a roll of 210 within the next year, as we have been over subscribed for our Year R intake.

Our ethos is that we aim to develop the child as a whole. We are not focused on SATs league tables or achieving a judgement of Outstanding from Ofsted. We want to deliver to our pupils the type of rounded education that we would wish for our own children. This means delivering the widest and richest curriculum possible. We aim to provide our children with an education which prepares them for the adult life ahead of them.

Children learn a modern foreign language from Year R and continue to do so throughout their years here. Every Thursday is a Creative Day, when we only teach art, music, MFL, computing and PE. Education is not about focusing your efforts on achieving the highest possible SATs grades; real education is about providing our children with the best possible teaching and the widest possible curriculum.

We want our children to be both supported, and to be shown that it is quite alright to take a chance and to fail. They must learn that being taken out of their comfort zone is exciting and not frightening. We are preparing our children for life, not a test. But if we do so professionally, with high quality teaching, then they will succeed in tests as best as they are able, as well as being fully prepared for the life which awaits them.

We have a small team of dedicated staff who love their school and work extremely hard to ensure that our children receive the best possible education. We support each other and appreciate each other's strengths. This is a friendly and supportive environment and we welcome like minded individuals who wish to join us.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Jim Holditch
• Address:Mount Pleasant, Aylesford, Kent, ME20 7BE
• Telephone: (01622) 717335
• Email: office@stpetersaylesford.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description
• Person Specification
• Welcome Letter