Site Manager - The Kingsway School

Gatleyprimary; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kingsway School is seeking a Site Manager to ensure the safe, efficient and effective day-to-day running of the facilities and estates service, with a strong focus on health and safety across both school sites. This permanent, full-time role supports a high standards environment and a proactive maintenance culture.

Salary is Grade SO1 (£34,434 - £36,363). Closing date is Friday 11 September 2026, with interviews potentially held early for strong applicants.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day running of facilities & estates service and health & safety across the school sites.

Job description

Closing date for applications: 11 September 2026, 4.00pm

Job Advert

Site Manager - The Kingsway School

Contract type: Permanent, Full Time, Full Year (37 hours a week)

Location: The Kingsway School (based on 2 sites)

Required from: As soon as possible

Salary: Grade SO1 (Point 23 - 25): £34,434 - £36,363

Closing date: Friday 11th September 2026, 4pm

Interview date: As soon as possible

About the Role:

It is an exciting time to join TKS. Over the last three years, we have worked tirelessly to ensure that TKS is a special place for our students. Our campus based Key Stage offer has brought about a significant shift in our school’s culture and reputation and we are delighted that our most recent Ofsted visit in February 2026 recognised the huge advancements the school has made. Our children are happy here, our staff are proud to work here and our parents would recommend the school.

The opportunity has arisen for a person with relevant skills and experience to join us as our new Site Manager. The key purpose of the role is to ensure the safe, efficient, and effective day to day running of the facilities & estates service and health & safety across the school sites.

Please note that we are keen to recruit the right candidate so due to timeframes, we will interview early for strong applications and may therefore close this advert at the time of appointment.

About Education Learning Trust:

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This includes a highly competitive salary, a respected and generous pension scheme, and outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development. We are also committed to supporting your health and wellbeing, offering access to our award-winning employee assistance programme and a wide range of employee benefits and discounts.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.

It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offen ders-act-1974.’

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).