Office Manager

The Hathershaw College, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 3EP

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  21 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 September 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: £42,123.00 - £44,253.00 Annually (FTE) Points 30 - 32 of the School Support Staff pay spine, currently £42,123- £44,253 per annum

Office Manager job summary

Office Manager

Permanent, Full Time, 36 hours 40 minutes per week. Monday to Friday 8:00am-4:20pm, Full Year.

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary: Points 30 - 32 of the School Support Staff pay spine, currently £42,123- £44,253 per annum

The Role:
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised, proactive and professional Office Manager to play a key management role in our welcoming and forward thinking secondary Academy.

Working closely with the Principal and Trust Central Team, you will oversee and manage the Academy’s administration, including student services, reception, finance and HR, ensuring an efficient and professional service for staff, students, parents and visitors. The role includes leading a small team, managing finance and budgets, supporting HR and payroll, maintaining accurate student and staff records, ensuring data protection compliance, coordinating staff absence and supporting the Principal and Trust with key Academy priorities.

We are seeking someone with excellent organisational and administrative skills, strong IT skills, good financial skills and an understanding of HR processes. You will be highly accurate, with excellent attention to detail and confident in leading and supporting a small team. This is a busy and diverse role which will involve contact with a wide range of people, therefore, excellent interpersonal skills are essential. You will be able to manage competing priorities with discretion, professionalism and initiative, while demonstrating a flexible, proactive and collaborative approach.

Successful management experience in a school or another relevant sector outside education is essential.

Hathershaw College

The Hathershaw College is a very successful and oversubscribed 11-16 Academy within the Pinnacle

Learning Trust. We are a good school with a group of very talented teachers and staff who set high standards and expectations for our children. We have a strong training and CPD programme (supported by The Pinnacle Learning Trust Research School), which offers opportunities to develop your skills.

We are inclusive and celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of everyone within the College. We care about our young people, with our first priority always being to make sure they are happy and safe so that they are able to learn.

You will see from our Ofsted report published in June 2026, under the new national inspection framework, that our school is recognised as welcoming and inclusive, with a strong culture of respect and high expectations. Inspectors judged the school to have met the Expected Standard in Attendance and Behaviour, Inclusion and Personal Development and Wellbeing, whilst confirming that the school meets the national expected safeguarding standard. The report highlights that “students behave well. Leaders have put in place clear routines… Learning typically continues without disruptions. Attitudes to learning are largely positive”. Inspectors also recognised our inclusive ethos, stating that” This is a community where students experience a positive sense of belonging”. These findings reflect the commitment of our staff, leaders and students to creating a calm, respectful and supportive learning environment, alongside our continued focus on securing the very best outcomes for all our young people. We encourage all prospective applicants to read the report before applying.

Our colleagues underpin our mission and values, sharing high expectations and collaborative opportunities through supportive networks. We care about each other and the real difference we can make to students’ futures, and we want to recruit staff who share our vision.

We are well located with good public transport links and excellent access to the motorway network.

You can get a feel for the passion we have at Hathershaw College through our website, but please do organise to come in and meet us in person. That’s the best way to get a sense of the dynamic and broad education that our students are enjoying and what your future at Hathershaw College can be.

Proud member of The Pinnacle Learning Trust

We are a locally focused, cross-phase Trust, with a rigorous culture of high aspirations and strong academic performance that will improve the life chances of our young people through an understanding of the communities we serve. Our academies provide high quality inclusive education and an ethos whereby our children and young people learn by example and grow morally and socially.

Our vision for our workforce is one in which diverse, dedicated, skilled and high-performing staff are operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment; enabling everyone to feel valued, respected and encouraged in order to contribute their best to support us in achieving our mission.

Our Trust invests in each member of staff, offering them professional development opportunities, as well as the opportunity to contribute to the development of others via our Research School. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging.

We are delighted to be the winners of the MAT Excellence Award for Wellbeing Trust of the Year 2025, and have been recognised by Edurio for a Trust Value Award in 2025 for the second year running. We offer various health and wellbeing benefits, including an Employee Assistance programme offering counselling, GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, etc.

Read our ‘Join the Pinnacle Learning Trust’ booklet to discover what our trust can offer you.

To apply, please visit our website: https://www.pinnaclelearningtrust.org.uk/Vacancies/

Advert Closing Date: 9am on Monday 21 September 2026
Interview Date: Friday 25 September 2026

Commitment to Safeguarding

Hathershaw College is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment checks. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The Pinnacle Learning Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.

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

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 The Hathershaw College

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1034 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Hathershaw College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-hathershaw-college

The Hathershaw College is a very successful and oversubscribed 11-16 Academy within the Pinnacle Learning Trust, which consists of ourselves, Oldham Sixth Form College and Werneth Primary School. We are also well located with good public transport links and excellent access to the motorway network.

Ofsted inspected the school in November/December 2021 and we have retained our good status. I would advise you to read the excellent report before applying.

“Pupils behave sensibly around the school and in lessons. They are respectful to other pupils, staff and visitors.”

“Staff value the steps that leaders have taken to ease their workload and support their well-being.”

Source: Ofsted report 2021

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