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This job expired on 26 August 2025

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    26 August 2025 at 2:17pm

  • Date listed

    29 July 2025

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Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£34314 - £37035 per annum

Area Site Manager job summary

Location: Midlands - Covering Sir Herbert Leon Academy, Charles Warren Academy, Lea Forest Primary Academy and Greenwood Academy

Salary: NJC 24 - 27 £34,314 - £37,035 + wellbeing cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Hours: 37 hours, 52.14 weeks

Contract: Permanent

Join our team and make a difference

We are seeking to appoint a committed and experienced Area Site Manager to oversee site operations across our academies in the Midlands region, with direct responsibility for the facilities at Sir Herbert Leon Academy, Charles Warren Academy, Lea Forest Primary Academy, and Greenwood Academy.
Proven experience in facilities or site management, strong leadership and organisational skills, and a thorough understanding of health and safety regulations are essential. You will lead and support School Facilities Managers at each academy, ensuring that all premises are managed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with Trust standards. A full driving licence is required for this role.

Key Responsibilities

* Oversee day-to-day site operations across the four academies.
* Work collaboratively with School Operations Manager to ensure consistent, high quality service delivery.
* Ensure all buildings and grounds are maintained to a high standard, promoting a safe and welcoming learning environment.
* Monitor and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, risk assessments, and statutory requirements.
* Coordinate and oversee planned and reactive maintenance work.
Manage budgets for site-related services and works, ensuring value for money.
* Work closely with the Regional Estates Manager and other Trust departments to align local operations with Trust-wide estates strategy.
* Set and uphold high professional standards across all aspects of site management.
* Promote and model the Trust's core values in all interactions and responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

* Proven experience in facilities or estates management, in an education or multi-site setting.
* Strong leadership and people management skills.
* Sound knowledge of health & safety legislation and compliance standards.
* Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
* Full driving licence with the ability to travel across sites regularly and work flexibly as required.

Who is Lift Schools?

We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.

We offer you:

* Comprehensive training: Access a wide range of developmental training to boost your career.
* Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
* Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives.

Ready to apply? Get in touch here. We can't wait to hear from you.

Please note: Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Ready to apply? Get in touch. We can't wait to hear from you.

Closing Date: 1 September 2025

Interview date: W/b 15 September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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About Lift Greenwood

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
942 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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School website
Lift Greenwood website
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Lift Greenwood is a vibrant, successful 11-18 school situated in the heart of Castle Vale. We moved into our £20 million new build in September 2017 with world class facilities. Coupled with this is a highly professional staff and students who are keen to learn. As a result of being oversubscribed, we are embarking on the next wave of recruitment for the highest calibre of staff who can help us to grow our school community.

So why work at Lift Greenwood?

1. Teaching and Learning

Quality first teaching is at the core of everything we do. To support this, our evidence-based Teaching and Learning vision incorporates Barack Rosenshine’s Principles of Direct Instruction. Literacy is a significant part of every lesson. Standard written and Spoken English is insisted upon and modelled by all teachers to ensure our students can achieve their potential.

Most importantly, we do not grade observations at Lift Greenwood, we believe that regular, developmental feedback creates a strong, supportive and vibrant culture.

2. Expectations

We have a firm and fair approach to behaviour, systematically supported by senior staff; all pupil detentions are centralised and run by senior staff every day. Teachers are therefore able to prioritise the planning and teaching of their subject.

3. Work-life balance

We are committed to reducing teacher workload and making sure that everything we do has a positive impact on pupil learning. This means we have a slimmed-down marking policy, a centralised knowledge focused homework policy, no parents evenings and a minimal assessment, reporting and data entry cycle.

Ofsted

We are judged to be a 'Good' school and we were last inspected in October 2021.

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