School Workforce Census – November 2023
New Post of ‘School Business Professional’ – sims users
‘SBP – School Business Professions’ will be added as a lookup for ‘Service Term – SWR Post’.
Schools need to edit their Service Terms for staff who fall within the School Business Professional posts, that is, Bursar, Business Manager, Finance Officer, Office Manager, Premises Manager or ICT Network Manager.
Schools will also need to add qualifications for these members of staff, as a new set of qualifications has been added.
Schools will also need to add destination and reasons for leaving where applicable.
Adding and editing of Service Terms in Tools | Staff | Pay Related |
You first need to find a member of staff’s SWR post, which is located in their contract details;
You then need to close the member of staff’s record and go to the service term;
Select the appropriate post, click on open and then change the SWC Post to School Business Professional;
Qualifications
The DfE have introduced some additional qualification codes for School Business Professionals. ESS have included the additional codes in their lookups which were covered by consolidated patch 2 and Fileset 2503.
The additional qualifications are listed below and should be available to select in sims;
- Z206 – Level 3 School Administration Foundation Certificate
- Z207 – Level 3 Procurement & Supply Assistant
- Z208 – Level 4 Diploma School Business Management (SBM)
- Z209 – Level 4 SBP Apprenticeship
- Z210 – Level 4 Commercial procurement & supply
- Z211 – Level 4 CIPFA Certificate in Public Sector Asset Management for School Business
- Z212 – Level 5 Diploma SBM
- Z213 – Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship
- Z214 – Level 7 CIPFA Diploma in School Financial and Operational Leadership
- Z215 – Level 7 Senior Leaders Masters Degree Apprenticeship.
Some superseded qualifications held by data subjects have been renamed and should be recorded under their current name. These will include:
- Staff holding the Level 4 Certificate School Business Management (SBM), should be recorded as holding the Level 4 Diploma School Business Management (SBM)
- Staff holding the Level 6 Advanced School Business Management, should be recorded as holding the Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship.