Site Manager

Wyndham Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 0EP

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 January 2026

• Closing date

  7 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,596.00 - £35,412.00 Annually (Actual) NJC 20 to 24 - Full Time - All year round

Site Manager job summary

Wyndham Spencer Academy are looking to appoint a dedicated, conscientious and motivated Site Manager.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a variety of duties - to include, keeping the site clean and maintained, ensuring H&S checks are up to date, ensuring the building is secure and keeping up with projects within school.

We are ideally looking for someone who:

• has drive, enthusiasm and flexibility
• has literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
• Is able to work independently or as part of a team
• Has working knowledge of a range of basic site maintenance and environmental matters

If you said ‘YES’ to each of these, you could be the right person for Wyndham Spencer Academy!

Wyndham Spencer Academy is an outstanding primary school situated in Derby city. We are proud to share our status as a World Class School, which strives to be creative, inspiring and empowering our children and staff. As a Research School, our practice is rooted in evidence and staff engage in and with research as a cornerstone of quality first teaching to ensure our children achieve personal GREATness. We are a team of dedicated practitioners who strive to offer nothing but the best for our children. Would you like to be part of the next stage of our exciting journey?

Our children are looking for a Site Manager who:

Is a creative thinker

Puts children at the heart of decision making

Has a ‘whatever it takes attitude’

Is a team player

Wants to create a safe and welcoming school

In return, we will offer you:

A collaborative ethos, working with other schools and colleagues to develop day to day practice

A creative and unique environment, rich in innovative approaches

Access to high quality CPD through in-house training

An inclusive and welcoming team to work alongside.

School visits are warmly welcomed .Please contact Mrs A. John on 01332 571153 or ajohn@wyndhamspencer.org.uk or Mr S Stringer at sstringer@wyndhamspencer.org.uk if you would like to come along and visit our school or have any other queries regarding the role.

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

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 Wyndham Spencer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 444 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wyndham Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wyndham-spencer-academy

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