Cluster Health and Safety Officer
Kettering Buccleuch Academy, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 9NS38 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 April 2026
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
- £37,000.00 - £42,600.00 Annually (FTE) + Fuel Allowance (£2,400 FTE)
Cluster Health and Safety Officer job summary
Cluster Health & Safety OfficerLocation: NorthamptonshireSalary: £37,000-£42,600 FTE, depending upon qualifications, skills and experience, plus £2,400 travel allowance p.a.
Working hours Monday-Friday 37.5 hours per week
Closing date: 31st May 2026 at 23.59pm
Required for: ASAP
The roleThis is a new role within the Northamptonshire Cluster at United Learning. This role is to lead on health and safety, support the effective management of estates and building compliance across the cluster. The post-holder will work closely with the Cluster Estates Manager to ensure that the school sites are safe, well-maintained and fully compliant with statutory requirements. During school holiday periods, the role will also provide operational support for site projects, refurbishments works and contractor management.
Flexibility is essential within this role with the opportunity to work from home where appropriate as well as regular, scheduled visits to the sites of the four schools within the cluster.
The Cluster Estates team currently comprises the Estates Manager and Estates Coordinator who work in close partnership with the individual schools’ facilities management teams, senior leadership teams and other cluster-level colleagues.
The Northamptonshire cluster schools are Kettering Buccleuch Academy, Northampton Academy, Campion School and Montsaye Academy.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an established or aspiring H&S professional who would like an exciting, challenging and highly rewarding role within our thriving Northamptonshire Schools cluster.
About You
You will have experience with Health and Safety management and will be responsible for carrying out regular site inspections, audits and compliance checks. You will have a desire to attain the highest possible standards in the work that you do. You have excellent organisational skills and be able to work on your own initiative and be confident and comfortable in acting as a key point of contact for external auditors, inspectors and enforcement officers (HSE, Fire Service, insurance etc.). You will be able to prioritise your workload effectively and have excellent communication and IT skills and be able to exercise your role with discretion and confidentiality.
A NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) and IOSH Managing Safely is required plus evidence on ongoing CPD in H&S or estates management.
United Learning
The Northamptonshire cluster school are part of United Learning, a large and growing group of independent and state schools working together to achieve the best in everyone, aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It’s an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
For more information:
For a confidential discussion about this role, please contact Tim Ball, Cluster Estates Manager via email to TimBall@kba.uk
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Kettering Buccleuch Academy is committed to equal opportunities and to the protection and safety of all students and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share these commitments.
Each post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kettering Buccleuch Academy
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- All through school
- School size
- 1851 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kettering Buccleuch Academy website
Since becoming an academy in September 2009, Kettering Buccleuch Academy has seen many exciting changes. We are an all-through academy catering for students aged 4-18. We moved into our new, purpose-built building in January 2013. The academy continues to go from strength to strength, with happy and motivated staff, a supportive culture and plenty of opportunities for personal grown with our excellent staff CPD offer. We offer a range of benefits including our wellbeing and workload manifesto, Perkbox, covering lifestyle and retail benefits including Childcare vouchers, a car lease scheme, cycle to work etc., subsidised meals and an on-site gym which is free for all staff to use.
We welcome visits to our school so that you can experience the unique ethos of Kettering Buccleuch Academy for yourself. If you would like to visit the academy, please contact Miss Millsop, PA to the Principal, on 01536 515644 or via email to WendyMillsop@kba.uk.
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