Site Manager - Kingsleigh Primary School

Site Manager required to start in May 2025

Permanent contract - Full-Time (52 weeks) – 37 hours per week

Grade 7 - £33,366 to £36,124

Kingsleigh Primary and Pre-School is an 800+ pupil primary school in West Howe and is an innovative, creative, forward-thinking place to learn and work.  We believe in going the extra mile in everything that we do to ensure that our children have the very best start to their education.  We are at the centre of the community we serve and see our role as more than just a school but a place where our children and families can truly thrive. We recently had our Ofsted Inspections in February this year and our school continued to be ‘good’.

Our school is a place:

‘Where everyone can be great!’

We are seeking to appoint a Site Manager to:

• Work with the new Head and leadership team to drive improvement across the school site and its facilities.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day operational management, safety and security of the school site.
• Ensure that the school is well maintained, safe and secure for all users. 

This position is being offered on a permanent contract and the salary will be Grade 7 points 23 to 26 - £33,366 to £36,124. 

What we can offer:

• A large, friendly and enthusiastic staff team where everyone works together and is genuinely proud of what we’ve created.
• A modern, spacious, purpose-built and well-resourced learning environment.
• Eligibility to join the local Government pension scheme.
• Generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service (holidays to be agreed with the Headteacher and will not impact on the operational running of the school).

We are looking for someone who:

• Has strong leadership skills to motivate and manage site teams, ensuring high productivity and teamwork. 
• Will be proud to be a part of our school and will uphold our ethos and values.
• Has excellent communication skills to liaise with various stakeholders.
• Has capacity to address and resolve site issues swiftly to avoid delays or disruptions.
• Has good IT skills to enable them to learn how to work with online site management systems.

If this sounds like the kind of school you would like to work in, we look forward to showing you what we are all about.  Please visit our school website (www.kingsleighprimary.co.uk) which will give you a good flavour of life at Kingsleigh Primary School. 

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Please apply online or contact our School Business Manager for an application pack at [email protected].

Closing date:  Friday 25^th April 2025 at midday

Interviews will be held on Friday 2^nd May 2025

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.