Job Description

Contract Type: Fixed tern for 18 months
Working Hours: Full Time 35 hours per week

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Trust in the Central Finance Team as an Apprentice Finance Administrator.

You will be working to support the finance transactional processing in line with the Trust financial regulations and procedures, ensuring accuracy, compliance and best practice.

Whilst supporting the finance team, you too will be supported to complete an apprenticeship with a leading apprenticeship provider. As an apprentice, you will gain real work experience whilst developing relevant skills, knowledge, and behaviours to apply to your role and support opportunities for progression within the Trust.

This role will be based at the Trust Central offices in Wythenshawe and easily accessed by both bus and metrolink routes. Parking is also available on site.

This is a conditional fixed term post for 18 months, leading to a permanent post on successful completion of the Apprenticeship.

Working hours will be 35 hours per week and all year round. The starting salary for this post is Grade 2 \xc2\xa320,812. Progressing to grade 4 on successful completion of apprenticeship qualification.

Main responsibilities

• To work towards accreditation by achieving the apprenticeship standards, completing all assignments and training
• Supporting the finance transactional team by providing administrative support for key transactional activities
• Maintaining and updating financial records
• Developing knowledge of routine financial procedures, the financial scheme of delegation and financial regulations in order to ensure all transactions are compliant
• To operate relevant ICT and finance packages including PSF, to manage financial transactions
• To make a key contribution in supporting the finance team across all schools through the provision and delivery of a highly effective and compliant service.

About Prospere Learning Trust

Prospere Learning Trust was formed in September 2017 through the merger of two multi academy trusts. We currently employ approximately 1000 staff and we believe that our staff play a vital role in achieving our vision. Great schools thrive because of the great people in them. The Trust currently comprises of 8 schools, including 4 mainstream high schools and 4 special needs schools (both primary and secondary) with further schools anticipated across Greater Manchester. With ambitious plans for growth and supporting academies to become the best they can be, every child is provided with the opportunity to develop the skills to be confident and successful.

A core principle at Prospere Learning Trust is Respectful Relationships where acting with care, integrity, and fairness is demonstrated within all our schools and the Central Team.

We value each member of our professional community and value our health and wellbeing. Our Staff Charter sets a standard which we all seek to follow and an environment:

• based on trust and shared values
• respect and positive relationships
• where staff health, safety and wellbeing are incorporated into day to day practices
• where personal and professional development is encouraged
• where support is available when needed

Find out more about our Trust on our main TES page.

Working for us:

Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.

Prospere Learning Trust offers a variety of employee benefits, including;

• a commitment to continuous professional development for all colleagues

• membership to Bupa Level 1 Health Plan which allows employees to claim money back for a range of health expenses such as prescriptions and dental treatments

• access to counselling, financial, legal and personal advice provided through either our free Bupa or Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including confidential 24 hour support

• Cyclescheme access

• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) contributions

Applying to work for us

Please to apply for this vacancy

We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date if we receive a high volume of applicants.

Applications will only be accepted on the TES application form and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage. Applications may not be considered if they are incomplete. We cannot accept CV\'s.

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.

All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. This is not a role in which the Trust sponsors a visa application. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references.

If you would prefer to request a manual application pack, or should you require any additional support in completing your application, please feel free to contact us on 0161 527 7953 or via e-mail at

What will you be doing as an apprentice?

• Your course will include online learning, onsite assessment at work, tutorials and training activities within your role and the completion of a portfolio for assessment. You will be assigned a work-based tutor who will guide and support you to acquire and develop the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviours.
• You will also be responsible for managing your own caseload and time whilst reporting to a more senior accountant.
• Collaborate with people both internally and/or externally at appropriate levels with a view to deliver a service that meets customer\xe2\x80\x99s needs with a commitment to professional and ethical standards, for example, professional code of conduct and duty of confidentiality as appropriate.

If you are viewing this job on our Greater Jobs site then please click on the apply now button to view the full advertisement details and relevant attachments.

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed .

This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.

At Prospere Learning Trust we are committed to creating a community of belonging. This means we continually celebrate the diverse communities within our schools and the communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

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temporary

working hours

full time

application deadline

12 00 am

28th Aug 2023

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