Office Manager

Clover Leys Spencer Academy, Derby, DE24 5AX

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  10 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £27,521.00 - £29,362.00 Annually (Actual) NJC 11-15 - Full Time - 43 weeks per year

Office Manager job summary

We are seeking an organised, professional, and confident Office Manager to join our team at Clover Leys Spencer Academy. As the first point of contact for many of our families and visitors, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the school office, requiring excellent communication, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment.

Clover Leys is a growing primary school with a strong sense of community. We are looking for someone who is proactive, solution-focused, and committed to supporting our staff, children, and families with efficiency and care. Join us in shaping a calm, purposeful and professional front-of-house environment.

We would love to welcome you to experience our wonderful school for yourself. Stepping through our doors, you’ll feel the calm, purposeful atmosphere and see children who are enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn. At Clover Leys, you’ll join a supportive, inspiring team where collaboration and care are at the heart of our work. We provide excellent CPD and training, with clear opportunities for professional growth at every stage of your career. This role gives you the chance to make a genuine difference to children’s lives within a warm, ambitious school community.

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve he right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Clover Leys Spencer Academy

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 135 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Clover Leys Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/clover-leys-spencer-academy

Do you want to be part of a team in a brand new school?

Can you help to give our children the best start possible?

Will you bring imagination and excitement to provide our children with magical memories?

How to Apply

To apply to work with Spencer Academies Trust, please complete your candidate profile via our new Every Portal. If you are accessing our Every portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your candidate profile information, before tagging your profile to this vacancy. We have added a video to help guide you, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

If you wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to email us via info@cloverleysspencer.org.uk

Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

· All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.

· Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.

· We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

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