Site Manager
The Blue Coat CofE School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 3SQ13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
24 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours 40 minutes
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 6, SCP 23 - 27
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint a well organised, creative and visionary individual to lead our Site Team. The post holder will be responsible in proactively managing the Site Team, which consists of Assistant Site Managers and Groundspersons.
This is a wonderful opportunity for a to join a strong and well-established Site team within an Ofsted Outstanding School.
The purpose of this role is:
- To be responsible for the day-to-day management, security, maintenance and improvement of a high-quality learning environment incorporating all school grounds, buildings, equipment, vehicles and facilities.
- To be responsible for repairs, maintenance and refurbishment.
- To be responsible for the site budget and to monitor expenditure.
- To supervise contractors during building and maintenance works and inspect and snag work when completed to ensure satisfactory standards are achieved.
- To liaise with external contractors, the local authority & other providers of building services.
- To support the delivery of Health & Safety plans ensuring the schools obligations are met.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has the ability to communicate with people at all levels dealing with confidential matters appropriately.
- Preferably has experience of site management
- Has experience of dealing with members of the public and external suppliers / contractors.
- Can demonstrable ability to plan and organise own and others workloads.
We are not necessarily looking for someone with experience in education, it is more important that you have the right skillset and the enthusiasm and commitment to be the best that you can be for our young people.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- Opportunities for professional development in a growing Trust
- A strong school community that places children, families and staff at the heart of everything we do.
- A supportive team who will work with and alongside you to achieve the very best
- LGPS career average pension scheme including life insurance and dependent's pension
- Generous holiday entitlement and sick pay scheme, increasing with length of service
- Central Oldham location close to good transport networks
Further information about the job
Working for The Blue Coat School means that you would be part of the Cranmer Education Trust, a successful, growing Trust which prides itself on looking after its people, offering a high level of support and access to expertise. This is an excellent time to join the team, as we develop collaborative structures and systems to enhance and support our growing family of schools.
There are 10 schools in our Trust, both primary and secondary schools, across Oldham and Rochdale. The trust also incorporates a teacher training school and the East Manchester Teaching Hub, which support the training and development of new and existing teachers across the North West of England.
For further details please visit:
https://careers.cranmereducationtrust.com/
Commitment to safeguarding
The Blue Coat School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
For further information please refer to:
The Cranmer Education Trust’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy:
Trust Policies | Cranmer Education Trust
Applying for the job
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About The Blue Coat CofE School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1669 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Blue Coat CofE School website
- Email address
- hr@blue-coat.org
- Phone number
- 0161 624 1484
We are very proud of our school, which attracts students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. It first opened in 1834. Our founder, Thomas Henshaw, was a committed Anglican who left a bequest to fund a school which would provide education for the orphaned boys of the parish.
From these humble beginnings, the Blue Coat School has become one of the biggest and most successful schools in the country. The school has a national reputation for high quality teaching and learning, pastoral care, consistently excellent examination results and outstanding progress. Our most recent OFSTED inspection in 2011/2 judged the school to be outstanding in every category. As a result, Blue Coat has been designated a National Teaching School which means that we work with schools nationally and locally to develop the very best educational provision. Blue Coat is grounded in tradition and history, and is evolving and forward looking. Our historic campus has been restored and developed extensively; our students enjoy picnic lunches in front of a Grade II listed building but their learning takes place in superb 21st century classrooms, laboratories and studios.
Blue Coat is dedicated to serving young people, to enable them to become everything they can be and everything that they are meant to be. We are a Church of England school that welcomes members of other Christian denominations, and of other faiths.
Our Anglican beliefs, values and worship are at the core of our life together in school.
Arranging a visit to The Blue Coat CofE School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@blue-coat.org.
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