Full Time, Permanent

22 November 2024

Hours: 37 hours a week, flexible working hours, all year round
Salary Range: £29,789 to £32,315
Location: APT Central Offices, Manor Green School, Cox Green, Maidenhead
Ascendancy Partnership Trust (APT) is a newly formed multi-academy trust (MAT) with deep community roots across the Berkshire area, composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties. Our mission is to provide the best possible education for children and young people with additional and complex needs in both special and mainstream schools.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Officer to work with our CFO.
Responsibilities include recording and reconciliation of grant income, preparing journals, providing financial reports and payroll information.
You will use your experience of working in a finance role along with your accountancy qualifications to provide exceptional support to the CFO and Trust school finance teams.
Ability to communicate well at all levels and demonstrate initiative, maintain confidentiality and great working relationships are essential.
Come and join our amazing team!
We offer a range of benefits including:

• Local authority pension and life assurance scheme
• Free onsite parking
• On site café
• Family-friendly policies
• Continuous professional development and learning opportunities

To apply:
Closing date: Midday on Friday 22nd November 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 27th November 2024
We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
APT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees of APT are required to undergo safeguarding checks which include reference checks and an enhanced DBS check. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

Addington School is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. All our pupils’ primary need is a learning difficulty that is either moderate, severe or profound, with up to 50 percent also having Autism.
All our pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan and we are currently accommodating up to 308 pupils, aged between 3 and 19 years across 2 sites.
Based in Woodley and Farley Hill and currently a Wokingham maintained school, we are very fortunate to have 2 purpose built environments which make our schools fantastic places for learning and wider curriculum enrichment. At Farley Hill, we have a new 40 place Nursery to Year 1 Early Years Centre that admitted 16 new pupils in September 23. We will admit a further 16 in September 24, and a further 8 in September 25 to complete the 40 place provision.
We tailor a personalised Educational Programme for every pupil to ensure that they reach their full potential as well as providing a bespoke sequential curriculum steeped in SEND pedagogy. The school has a long history of being outstanding and in March 2023 secured Outstanding again under the new Ofsted Framework.
We have particular strengths in our Creative Arts with Music a particular focus for all our students and have considerable expertise in teaching strategies for pupils with learning difficulties as well as Autism and Down Syndrome.
We believe in a positive ethos based on a culture of mutual respect and openness, where we are all learning together to be 'a community committed to excellence and the development of the potential of all’.
We pride ourselves in our commitment to induction, professional development and on-going support to all our staff.

Our Aims

• To know that what we do is making a difference to the lives of our young people.
• To continue to promote an inclusive approach to educational life.
• To expand our Parent and Community Partnership.
• To provide a learning environment based on mutual respect and self-advocacy.
• To create a challenging forward thinking culture.