Vacancies

About the Post

Stourfield Infant School is a large two/three form entry infant school with children from Year R to Year 2. At Stourfield Infant School, the children always come first. Everything we do in school is to help the children feel safe, happy, motivated and confident in their learning and relationships. We believe that children thrive in a caring and intellectually stimulating environment with plenty of praise and encouragement.

The school has a highly-skilled staff team and we pride ourselves on the quality of teaching and learning as well as the excellent achievements of our children. Our school’s core values of respecting, collaborating and aspiring underpin everything we do.

We are looking to appoint a highly organised and pro-active School Business Manager to oversee all areas of non-academic operations within the school, supporting the Headteacher to deliver their statutory responsibilities and their school development priorities.

We are looking for an outstanding individual who will relish the opportunity to:

• Manage finances including budgeting and forecasting, purchase orders, invoicing, parental payments, insurance and lettings.
• Ensure robust and effective practices are in place for the general running of the school.
• Line manage and supervise our admin team, site team and our lunchtime supervisors.
• Support the headteacher with staff recruitment, induction, appraisal and development planning.
• Be responsible for other operational HR processes including recording maintaining personnel files, staff absences and return to work meetings and staff pay.
• Fulfil the role of Single Central Record administrator for the school
• Manage safety and risk including the local risk register, accident reporting and investigation  and business continuity planning.
• Work with our trust estates team on improvement projects, maintenance and compliance work and ensure a secure, safe, clean site.
• Manage local requirements for IT hardware and software, maintain records of equipment loans and work with our trust IT team on future requirements and investments.
• Support production of information and reports for our governance meetings and maintain school specific policies.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people in accordance with our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies.

What we can offer you

• An opportunity to work with wonderful staff, children and their families
• Automatic membership of the Dorset Local Government Pension Scheme
• Free, confidential access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which offers a range of counselling services plus financial, legal and practical support from qualified professionals on a range of personal issues and access to online health and wellbeing resources
• A trust-wide intranet, where we share our news, information and resources
• Local discounts negotiated on behalf of our staff e.g. gym memberships, hair and beauty salons, chiropractic care, cycle shops, restaurants, motoring services, and retail/DIY stores
• Access to national discounts on a wide variety of huge brands
• A welcoming staff room with complimentary tea and coffee available throughout the day
• Free on-site parking
• The opportunity to work within Twynham Learning; a progressive multi-academy trust
• The opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful areas of the South Coast

Who we are looking for

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have strong organisational, administrative and financial skills with high levels of competence in using general IT platforms, financial systems and management information systems
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills and gravitas to interact with colleagues across our organisation, with our parent groups and our wider community
• Have significant experience within school administration and a corresponding knowledge of data and process requirements for admissions, pupil information, assessment etc.
• Are safer recruitment certified and/or have a school business management qualification
• Have line management experience
• Have the ability to pay attention to detail
• Are a self-starter with ability to drive change to make processes more robust and/or efficient

You will also be keen to live our Twynham Learning employee values which are:

• Aim high
• Keep improving
• Don’t leave anyone behind
• See the bigger picture

Any questions?

To discuss the post or your application, please contact Pauline Sweetman on 01202 424585 or email us at recruitment@twynhamlearning.com

How to apply

To apply for this vacancy, please submit a Job Application Form and Diversity Questionnaire by email to: recruitment@twynhamlearning.com  

Only applications made using our own official application form will be accepted. You can download the form and questionnaire here:  www.twynhamlearning.com/187/staff-vacancies

The closing date for applications is Friday 1 May 2026 at 9am. Interviews will be held 6 May 2026.

Twynham Learning values diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote diversity throughout our whole workforce. We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of our community, so we give equal opportunities to all job applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability status, gender reassignment, marital/partnership status, pregnancy/maternity, race/colour/national origin, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. Only people who can evidence their right to work in the UK will be considered for this vacancy. We are committed to robust Safer Recruitment processes as part of our strong commitment to safeguard children and young people. An enhanced criminal records check will be undertaken on the successful candidate. Candidates must disclose all unprotected spent and unspent cautions and convictions. It is an offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.