People Strategy & Operations Lead
Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 July 2026
Closing date
4 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
14 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC Grade H
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Purpose of the role
Enable the Trust to realise its mission to ‘Transform lives, strengthen communities and make the world a better place by building and maintaining excellent relationships with all school stakeholders. Enable the headteacher and, therefore, the school in all elements of the school improvement journey.
Your Responsibilities:
- As an associate member of SLT, lead the delivery of a strategic, responsive business support service with clear, effective operational processes.
- Lead school communications to foster excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the delivery of the School Improvement Plan by leading key projects and facilitating SLT meetings and away days.
- Lead and develop business support staff to ensure effective, responsive handling of enquiries and services.
- Promote and protect the school and Trust’s reputation through high‑quality face‑to‑face, written, verbal and digital communication.
- Ensure robust processes for managing concerns and complaints, securing timely, fair and effective resolution.
- Drive stakeholder engagement and feedback, analysing insights to inform continuous improvement.
- Manage school co‑professionals, including delivering an excellent front‑of‑house experience.
- Build agile and resilient business support teams through effective people development and leadership.
- Model Great People Management habits through strong relationships, high standards and personal effectiveness.
- Work with Fusion School Services and Trust shared services to ensure compliance all elements of the TWT Schools Standard and TWT Enablement Standard.
- Gather, interpret and share key updates from the Trust, DfE, Ofsted and other bodies to inform SLT decision‑making.
- Undertake additional duties as required to support the successful operation of the school, including events, trips and student supervision·
Your Responsibilities:
- Deliver great management (as defined by TWT’s habits for great managers) for others within their service
- Establish imaginative solutions and responses.
- Undertake comprehensive assessment, planning and evaluation as situations will not be straight forward or well established. The post holder will have some authority in the provision of services.
- Undertake work where there is a wide range of choices, where advice is not normally available and/or decisions where policy, procedures and working standards provide only general guidelines
- Make decisions which have significant implications for the service or have a significant effect on employees or other individuals.
- Work subject to deadlines involving frequently changing circumstances and conflicting priorities.
- Ability to use detailed knowledge in specialist discipline or hold a breath of knowledge in more than one specialist function
What the school offers its staff
Relationships & Culture
- Always people first
- Connections
- Belonging
Worklife balance
- Centralised curriculum
- Enrichment activities
- Teacher friendly assessment
Growing Great People
- 1-1 coaching
- Trust Wide CPD Offer
- Powerful Networks
Passion & Energy
- Love coming to work
- Celebrate achievements
- Spread joy
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Tor Bridge High
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1122 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tor Bridge High website
- Email address
- bgeorgiev@torbridge.net
- Phone number
- 01752207872
Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.
We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.
Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bgeorgiev@torbridge.net.
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