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Trust Estates Manager
Central England Academy Trust, Nuneaton, CV11 4QH29 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2027 (or earlier)
Closing date
9 September 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
11 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, All Year-round
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £44,075 - £52,413 (pay award pending)
What skills and experience we're looking for
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Estates professional to join the central team in our growing multi academy trust, supporting our schools across multi-sites.
Working closely with the Chief Operating Officer, the successful candidate will take the lead on operational estates delivery across the organisation, ensuring all school environments remain safe, compliant, well-maintained and fully fit for purpose. The post holder will have responsibility for management and the successful delivery of the projects awarded under the School Condition Allocation funding rounds.
This is a senior operational role with responsibility for overseeing planned and reactive maintenance across multiple sites, ensuring statutory compliance is maintained in line with Department for Education guidance and wider health & safety legislation.
The Trust Estates Manager will play a key role in driving consistency, performance and best practice across estates services while supporting school’s Premises Managers and site teams through strong leadership and professional development.
The role will involve close collaboration with Headteachers and senior stakeholders, balancing local operational requirements with wider organisational priorities.
What the school offers its staff
At Central England Academy Trust, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
- excellent continuous professional development
- reduced workload
- behaviour for learning that empowers teachers to teach and students to learn
- a range of imaginative approaches to ensure staff wellbeing
- free, onsite parking
- subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- a Gym Membership Scheme
- a Cycle to Work Scheme
- free lunch for duty staff
- an Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- an Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials
Further information about the job
How to Apply
Please apply by clicking https://centralenglandacademytrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies
Alternatively, please visit the Central England Academy Trust website and click on ‘Vacancies’. The closing date for applications is 5pm, Wednesday 9th September 2026. Interviews will take place week beginning Monday 14th September 2026.
A visit to one of our Trust schools is encouraged and warmly welcomed. To organise a visit and conversation with our CEO, Andrew Dickinson and / or our Chief Operating Officer, Claire Warren, please contact:
cwarren@centralengland.co.uk
As part of your application, please attach a supporting statement (no more than 2 pages)
outlining how your leadership experience and skills meet the person specification for the role.We really look forward to reading your application!
Please see the attached Job Application Pack for the full details of the role, including the Person Specification.
Please note that the school reserves the right to close the application process early if we identify suitable candidates. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application as soon as possible.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will be taken through the Trust's vetting procedure.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks:
Childcare disqualification
Enhanced DBS
Medical
Online and social media
Prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must let us know about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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 Central England Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- cwarren@centralengland.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476 740 932
Thank you for your interest in joining Central England Academy Trust. Our diverse Trust serves families in Nuneaton and the surrounding areas, and currently consists of 5 schools: a primary special school, a secondary special school, two mainstream secondary schools and a mainstream junior school. We are also delighted to be opening a brand-new mainstream primary school in September 2026.
Our Trust’s core values summarise what is important to us and what we actively promote:
Collaboration: To work closely and productively with others for the greater good of everyone involved. To be positive, thoughtful and supportive towards others through showing appreciation and respect of own and other cultures, values and beliefs. We want everyone in our Trust to feel as though they are an important part of a large family.
Equity: Recognising that we do not start from the same place equity is about providing others with what they need in order to provide an equal access to opportunities. We want our school communities to be happy, empowered and supported through democratic processes and robust systems and structures where the autonomy, strengths and the uniqueness of the individual is supported, promoted and celebrated.
Aspiration: To always be ambitious ensuring that pupils and staff in our schools have the knowledge and skills to progress towards their aspirations and beyond. To support pupils to take their place in society and achieve success in adulthood.
Trust: To feel safe knowing that the reactions of others are well meaning and that systems and structures to support are consistent and predicable. To be well-informed and kept up-to-date and empowered to communicate wishes, concerns and opinions without fear of retribution.
Arranging a visit to Central England Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email cwarren@centralengland.co.uk.
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