HEAD OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

HEAD OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Do you have the strategic leadership skills, energy and drive to join our 300+ staff team committed to our mission: to transform our pupils’ lives and the lives of their families and our vision: to inspire breakthroughs in the way society enables children with complex needs to find true fulfilment?

Do you have the emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills required to build positive and professional relationships with pupils, families and staff, contributing to a collaborative, supportive and ambitious school culture?

Do you have the skills required to co-ordinate and connect the various functions that combine to make Riverside School the very special place that it is?

If so, we’d love to hear from you. We are a forward-thinking and innovative all-age specialist school with a wonderfully diverse population: our 360 pupils are based over four sites, Beckenham, Bromley, St Paul’s Cray and West Wickham, in the London Borough of Bromley. We are currently recruiting a Head of Finance and Operations to join our Leadership Team, whose role will be to contribute to the overall effective leadership and management of the school and to oversee the business support functions within Finance, Premises and Estates, Health and Safety, Human Resources, Administration and Data Management, ICT, Extended Services and Marketing. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and the emotional intelligence to make powerful connections and build positive relationships across the school community.

At Riverside School, our core values are at the heart of everything we do:

Aspiration Resilience Creativity Humility Integrity Trust Enthusiasm Courage Teamwork

They make up the acronym ARCHITECT to signify our passion for designing and building a school that will make an indelible mark on the world for generations to come; a school that will impact positively on everyone who enters, on people we may never meet, and in ways we may never know.

If you feel you have a part to play, please contact the school to arrange a visit. For further details and an application form, visit the Working at Riverside section of our website www.riversideschool.org.uk; contact the school on 01689 870519 or email recruitment@riverside.bromley.sch.uk

We look forward to hearing from you.

Steve Solomons

Headteacher

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 9.00am on 15th June 2026

INTERVIEWS: Week beginning 22nd June 2026

START DATE: September 2026

Riverside School is committed to providing equality of opportunity and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post-holder will be required to adhere to the school’s safeguarding procedures and policies and be seen to actively promote Riverside’s safeguarding systems. All appointments will be subject to receiving satisfactory references; clearance of a full DBS check and satisfactory health clearance.