IT Network & Systems Manager
Whitmore High School, Harrow, HA2 0AD11 days remaining to apply
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
22 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,891.00 Annually (Actual)
IT Network & Systems Manager job summary
WHITMORE HIGH SCHOOL
IT NETWORK & SYSTEMS MANAGER
Are you looking for an innovative and forward-thinking school which genuinely invests and develops you? Then come and join us at Whitmore High School where we believe all our exceptional staff contribute to transforming students’ lives!
We are looking for an IT Network & Systems Manager who would like to join our dynamic and successful school; someone who would like to be part of a friendly and hard-working team.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead the delivery of IT Services so that school staff are effectively supported in their delivery of short and longer-term educational ambitions.
- Lead the management of all IT network, staff, resources and contracts, ensuring the optimisation and effective delivery of services.
- Co-ordinate all IT activities to ensure the availability of systems, services and data to all stakeholders.
- Work to ensure that IT is regarded as a strength of the school by providing the strategic leadership and management to ensure the successful development of the IT provision.
- Have demonstrable detailed knowledge, experience and understanding of Network Management in a related field.
- Either hold, or be working towards, a graduate degree or Level 7 qualification.
- Have experience of working with large IT networks.
- Be highly self-motivated, enthusiastic, and hardworking, with a flexible approach to tasks and responsibilities.
- Have a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the principles and practice of equal opportunities.
- Be committed to the principles and practice of safeguarding all young people.
Why work for Whitmore High School?
- State of the art building with well-equipped classrooms, excellent resources and modern facilities
- Fantastic support from your line managers and SLT who will develop you and want to see you succeed in your career
- You’ll be working in a school graded ‘Outstanding’ in all areas by OFSTED
- Exceptional and wide ranging CPD opportunities
- Staff Wellbeing group who promote a healthy work life balance and arrange activities such as weekly staff yoga, on-site massage, fruit baskets, well-being garden, book club with free Kindle loan for staff etc.
- Free annual flu jab
- Free use of the on-site gym
OFSTED graded the school in March 2025 as Outstanding in all areas and commented “Pupils achieve particularly well at this school due to the ambitious curriculum provided. Pupils are highly engaged and focused in lessons. A clear sense of care resonates through this truly inclusive school.” Our students are happy, well behaved and make excellent progress.
Full details of the post, application form and more information on our school can be viewed on our website www.whitmore.harrow.sch.uk
We reserve the right to interview early for this post should a suitable candidate apply
Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment. A copy of our child protection policy can be found on the school website. All appointments are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and pre-employment checks. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, this post is listed as an exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Online searches may be completed for shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence checks. It is an offence to apply for any role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all posts are listed as exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.
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 Whitmore High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1739 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Whitmore High School website
Whitmore High School is a mixed comprehensive school with an excellent record of achievement.
Students are expected to achieve the highest standards of work and behaviour in a positive, friendly but disciplined atmosphere. Our staff are highly qualified and passionate about ensuring all students reach their full potential and we work closely with parents to achieve this aim.
At Whitmore High School we aim to provide the best possible education for all our students by:
* Promoting a broad and balanced curriculum in which students take an active part in their own learning.
* Recognising the needs of individuals, placing suitable high demands on them and stimulating them to achieve success.
* Encouraging students to aim for the highest standards of work and behaviour at all times.
* Creating an ordered and friendly community where relationships are positive and founded on courtesy, respect and shared values.
* Acknowledging the importance of links between home, school and the wider community.
* Maintaining a spirit of constructive self-criticism, regularly considering improvements to existing practice.
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