Business Manager - Tynecastle High School - EDN30431

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Business Manager
Tynecastle High School

Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Salary: £44,257 - £52,373

We are looking to appoint a highly skilled, motivated and experienced Business Manager to our Senior Leadership Team. While previous experience in a school setting is not essential, skills and experience of managing finance, budgets, health and safety and people through HR processes are key.

The role of School Business Manager is crucial to the effective organisation and delivery of support services. The successful candidate will work closely with the headteacher and will be responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of effective services including finance, human resources, health and safety, facilities management and administration.

Please refer to the Business Manager Job Profile for a full description of duties and responsibilities. The successful candidate will line manage all support staff, which includes the administration team, school and pupil support assistants, pupil support officers and technicians.

Tynecastle High School is a six-year comprehensive secondary school which has served west-central Edinburgh with distinction for over 100 years. The school moved to a fantastic new site in January 2010 and has first class educational facilities. The school is thoroughly rooted in its local communities, with learners drawn from Craiglockhart, Dalry, Stenhouse and Balgreen Primary Schools. The school roll is currently around 850. The school offers a wide range of subjects and successfully presents students for SQA exams at all levels. There is a strong sense of pride in the school demonstrated by students, staff and parents.

A bank of strategies supports the successful integration of pupils with a wide range of needs and abilities in the school and the curriculum. As well as a strong record in supporting young people into the world of work, the school has, over many years, successfully supported significant numbers of high attaining students into a wide range of courses at Universities across the UK. Staff know their students well and a high priority is set by all staff on pastoral care and on ensuring pupils’ welfare. The atmosphere is welcoming and warm with respectful relationships underpinning purposeful learning.

For further information please visit our website at https://tynecastlehighschool.org.uk or to discuss the post please contact Ms Hazel Kinnear, Head Teacher, on . Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

Requirements

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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