School Operations Manager

Lawn Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2QR

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 31586.00 - 34314.00

School Operations Manager job summary

School Operations Manager

 

Required from September 2025

Full time 37 hours per week

Term time only plus 2 weeks (41 working weeks)

Permanent

Grade F points 20-24 (£31,586-£34,314 FTE per annum)

£28,560.78 - £31,027.50 (Actual Salary per annum)

 

Lawn Primary School is seeking to appoint an Operations Manager to manage the school office and provide HR, payroll and other administrative, financial, organisational processes within the school. Working closely with Head Teacher and the Transform Trust central team to ensure school finance and HR processes are completed in an accurate and timely manner

Lawn Primary School is an outstanding primary school with 436 pupils. We are located in a leafy suburb of Derby with Extensive grounds and buildings.

 

We warmly welcome applications from motivated individuals to join our dedicated and highly effective team from September. The role includes contribution to the planning, development and monitoring of support services and management of some support staff, including delegation of relevant activities. The role will also involve supporting the Senior Management Team by enabling effective strategic decision making.

You will:

 

·       Have general office or similar experience, ideally in an educational setting

·       Experience of managing people

·       Be able to carry out both routine and more difficult financial calculations

·       Have the ability to interpret data / information and present this to senior staff in an appropriate, understandable fashion

·       Be accurate and take pride in your work

·       Work well as part of a team

·       Be literate and numerate;

·       Have excellent communication skills with children and adults

·       In return we offer:

·       A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards.

·       Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

·       Calm and purposeful learning environments

·       Friendly, polite, well-behaved children who deserve the very best

·       Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

·       A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

·       Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

 

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.

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

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About Lawn Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 430 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lawn Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lawn-primary-school-derby

We have a very talented and committed teaching and support staff team who offer the children many different ways to excel and achieve. The school curriculum is differentiated to provide challenge for our more able pupils and support for those with any special educational needs. We have an extensive range of extra-curricular activities that provide an extra dimension to the opportunities for learning. We are continually developing our technological facilities to ensure that all of our pupils can access and benefit from the digital learning environment.

Our mission statement “DREAM, BELIEVE, ACHIEVE” reflects our understanding and beliefs. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school. This leads to a consistently high level of pupil achievement, preparing pupils for the challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

Mental health and wellbeing plays a vital role in education and impact on our students’ learning. This academic year the school is committed to working towards the School Mental Health Award. This is supported by the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University who say:

“The Department for Education recognises the direct link between positive mental health in schools and successful educational outcomes; the Mental Health Award for Schools builds on this link and provides a framework for educational institutions to evidence policies and initiatives that work towards improving emotional health and wellbeing for both staff and pupils.”

for more information about our school please check out our website http://www.lawn.derby.sch.uk/

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