Site Manager

Site Manager

NJC10 - NJC14 (£25,544 - £27,333) per annum

Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week

Can you help to give our children the best start possible? 

We have an exciting new opportunity for a versatile and enthusiastic Site Manager to be a part of our primary Academy that opened in September 2021. 

Are you happy to ‘turn your hand’ to anything? Can you help the Principal and teachers to bring new visions to life? If you are the sort of person who could build flat pack furniture and manage deliveries, write a report to governors and manage a cleaning team whilst holding a conversation with a three-year-old then this could be the place for you!

We are looking to appoint an experienced site manager, who will undertake all the usual aspects of the site managers role ensuring that the school is clean, secure and all compliance checks are undertaken whilst prioritising the needs of the academy.

Working as part of this important team, you will be a key role in this new and unique building. You will be required to carry out the following duties mentioned in the attached job description. The nature of the academy year requires some of these tasks to be done regularly, whilst others will be on an annual cycle. 

The post holder will be expected to use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages where appropriate.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our academies benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality. One that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:  

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. 
• Academies are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership. 
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our academies by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for children and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Andy Wagg - awagg@spencertrust.org.uk 

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.  

Closing date for applications Sunday 2nd June 2024  

Interview date to be confirmed

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.  Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.  

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656  

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity). 

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics. 

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer