Salary: £32,061- £34,434, BG9, N19 - N23
Actual Salary: £29,267 - £31,433
Contract: Full Time / Temporary until 31 August 2026 or earlier / Term Time + Inset Days + 10 Days
Closing date: Monday 17 November 2025, 12pm
Interview date: TBC
Purpose:
The Interim Assistant Business Manager plays a vital role in supporting the School Business Manager to ensure Orchard School Bristol meets its educational and operational objectives. This professional position provides strategic and administrative support to the leadership team, working collaboratively with teaching and support staff to enhance school effectiveness and raise standards of achievement. The role promotes a strong business ethos and ensures optimal use of resources across key operational areas including finance, administration, HR, ICT, facilities, and health & safety.
Duties (further details in the attached application pack):
- Implement financial procedures, monitor budgets, report variances, ensure compliance, and support funding opportunities.
- Lead admin staff, conduct reviews, run meetings, and support strategic planning with the School Business Manager.
- Manage site maintenance, inspections, and ensure a safe, secure environment aligned with PFI obligations.
- Oversee admin operations, improve systems, ensure efficiency, and coordinate statutory reporting.
- Enforce health & safety procedures, maintain records, monitor risks, and support departmental compliance.
- Assist with ICT contingency planning and support operational continuity.
- Support recruitment, maintain HR records, and ensure Single Central Record compliance.
We offer:
- Enhanced CPD, including access to professional networks across the Trust
- Paid induction and training suited to the role
- Confidential access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Free parking
- Use of the Cycle Scheme
- Paid completion of a DBS check
- Flu vaccination vouchers
- Free eye tests (where the employee is desk-based)
- Where eligible, automatic enrolment to the relevant pension scheme
- Honouring of continuous service earned in the Local Authority
Fluency Duty
This role has been identified as falling within the definition of requiring fluency in spoken English. You will be required to speak English with confidence and be able to conduct a conversation and answer questions for extended periods of time.
Trust in Learning (Academies) is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. Our policy and practice is in line with the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ most recent Guidance. We ensure that all appropriate measures are applied in relation to everyone who works for the Trust who is likely to be perceived by the children as a safe and trustworthy adult. Safer recruitment practice includes scrutinising applicants, online checks, verifying identity and academic or vocational qualifications, obtaining professional and character references, checking previous employment history and ensuring that a candidate has the health and physical capacity for the job.