Senior Operations Manager

St Giles' Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 6BT

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  19 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 November 2025

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: £40,778.00 - £45,091.00 Annually (FTE) NJC30-34 - Full Time - All Year Round

Senior Operations Manager job summary

St Giles Spencer Academy is an Outstanding Primary Special Academy in Derby City. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive academy which meets the needs of pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities.

St Giles Spencer Academy is looking to appoint an enthusiastic Senior Operations Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team to contribute towards driving the continued success of our academy. You will be responsible for the strategic direction and operational delivery of the business and operational functions of the school including finance, HR and personnel, administration, premises, health and safety and catering services; all of the school’s non-teaching functions.

This is an exciting opportunity, and we are looking for a highly organised and skilled individual who has strong leadership and people management skills, has proven experience of senior operational or business management (ideally within an education setting) and someone who can work effectively under pressure with conflicting work demands.

This role is a permanent, full-time and an all-year round position. The start date is as soon as possible depending on current working commitments.

We are proud of what we do at St Giles Spencer Academy and our recent school achievements are a result of a great team effort amongst pupils and their families, governors and staff:

• Special School of the Year Award
• Ofsted ‘Outstanding’
• NASEN Learning Support Staff of the Year Award
• Inclusion Quality Mark Flagship
• Family First Quality Award
• British Council International Schools Award
• Be Mighty, Be Creative Award
• ICAN Communication Specialist Accreditation
• Arts Mark Gold Award
• Fair-Trade Award
• Learning Outside the Classroom Award
• National Autistic Society Accredited School

If you want to be part of an innovative, forward thinking and outward facing special school; who are genuinely committed to investing in your professional development, then St Giles could be the academy for you.

If you would like more information about the post and / or an informal visit to the school, please contact the school office via 01332 343039 or email info@stgilesspencer.org.uk

If you are interested in joining us, please apply as soon as possible as we may close the vacancy early.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

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 St Giles' Spencer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 148 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Giles' Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-giles-spencer-academy

St Giles Spencer Academy is an Outstanding Primary Special Academy in Derby City. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive academy which meets the needs of pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities.

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