Site Manager
The Blue Coat CofE School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 3SQ19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
22 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 6, SCP Point 23 - 27 (£34,434 - £38,220)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a highly organised, creative, and forward-thinking individual to lead our Site Team.
The successful candidate will take responsibility for the proactive management of the Site Team, which includes Assistant Site Managers, Grounds Staff, and the Caretaker. They will play a key role in ensuring the school environment remains safe, secure, and well-maintained for all members of our community.
This is a wonderful opportunity to join a strong, experienced, and well-established Site Team within an Ofsted Outstanding school. The role is ideally suited to someone who brings vision, strong leadership, and a commitment to maintaining high standards across the school estate.
The Site Manager is responsible for the efficient day-to-day management, security, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of a high-quality learning environment. This includes oversight of all school grounds, buildings, equipment, vehicles, and facilities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing the maintenance, repair, and refurbishment of the school site to ensure high standards are consistently maintained
- Overseeing and controlling the site budget, including monitoring expenditure to ensure value for money
- Supervising contractors during building and maintenance works, ensuring all work is completed safely and to a satisfactory standard
- Liaising effectively with external contractors, the Local Authority, and other service providers
- Supporting the implementation and monitoring of Health & Safety policies, ensuring the school meets all statutory obligations
We are looking for someone who:
- Has the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels and handle confidential matters with discretion
- Has experience in site or facilities management (ideally within a school or similar environment)
- Has experience working with members of the public, external suppliers, and contractors
- Can demonstrate strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan and manage their own workload as well as that of others
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
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
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 The Blue Coat CofE School
- School type
- Academies, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- 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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