Chief Operations Officer

Caroline Chisholm School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 6TP

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  June 2026

• Closing date

  19 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £53,460.00 - £58,827.00 Annually (Actual)

Chief Operations Officer job summary

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and effective Chief Operations Officer to join our incredible team within our fully inclusive, all-through learning community. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual who has outstanding experience and/or potential. We are in a position to offer full and part time applications for this post.

The Chief Operations Officer (COO) is a key member of the Leadership Team, responsble for leading and managing core operational functions to ensure the Trust runs efficiently, compliantly and strategically. The COO will oversee the above functional areas noted in the line management responsibiltiies.

The postholder will be responsible for leading and managing core operational functions to ensure the Trust runs efficiently, compliantly and strategically. Our school is a dynamic and heavily oversubscribed all-through academy which, as England’s first all through state school, covers an age range from 4 to 19. The school caters for over 2100 students across our Primary phase, Secondary phase, and Sixth Form. The school has an incredibly talented and motivated staff body and a supportive, bright, and extremely well-behaved student body.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The staff at our school are committed to providing a safe place for all students, and a place where they can feel confident, have ambition and succeed.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Caroline Chisholm School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: 2134 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Caroline Chisholm School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/caroline-chisholm-school-northampton

Caroline Chisholm is an oversubscribed, academically successful all-through school that strives to develop young people into ambitious, highly successful, happy and resilient young adults. At Caroline Chisholm School, we believe that every student is capable of becoming a high performing learner, and we are committed to achieving HPL World Class School status. We make learning enjoyable from Reception year right up to the Sixth Form, and we provide a challenging academic curriculum, coupled with a very supportive pastoral system that nurtures the strengths and talents of each individual student.

We are incredibly proud to be the UK's first all-through state school, catering to the ages of 4-19. Our all-through provision has so many benefits not only for our students, but it is in absolute privilege for myself and each of our members of staff to see our students grow and work with them through each phase to be the best learner that they can be.

Extra-curricular involvement is not considered an “add on” at our school. Engagement in sports, the arts, school trips and out of class activities allow us to build the values, attitudes and attributes such as empathy and agility and work towards our ethos of ambition, confidence and success for all.

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