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About the Role:
Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Assistant Site Manager.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified, skilled and experiences individuals. The successful candidate will need to show that they have the ability and vision to be a vital part of the opening and shaping of this brand new 11-16 school.

General Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible to IT & Facilities Manager for ensuring the appropriate care, cleanliness, safety, security, maintenance and facilities management services for the premises and its site. Management of staff providing cleaning, maintenance and caretaking services. Advising and reporting on all aspects of site maintenance, including the completion of site-specific risk assessments

Responsibility for people (other than employees supervised/managed): The post has some direct impact on the well-being of individuals or groups, particularly in terms of health and safety and security.

Responsibility for staff: The post has direct responsibility for a small team of staff, including input to recruitment decisions, supervision, work allocation, checking work, performance management plus overseeing contractors working on site.

Responsibility for budget: The post has some responsibility for financial resources, involving placing orders, verifying invoices and monitoring expenditure against specific site budgets.

Responsibility for physical resources: The post has considerable responsibility for the cleaning, maintenance, and repair of a range of equipment or buildings and responsibility for security of buildings.
Please see the attached Job Pack for further information about the role.

What we offer:
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.

A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.

A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.

Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.

Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.

Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.

A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School, Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.

Employee Support Schemes:
• Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
• A Gym Membership Scheme
• A Cycle to Work Scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
• An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials
• A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more.

Further details about the role:
https://api.warwickshire.gov.uk/documents/WCCC-434952789-7772

Please be aware that this role is at Central England Academy Trust's brand-new secondary school, Higham Lane North Academy, opening in September 2025.

Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7. This state-of-the-art school and community resource is at the new, Milby Meadows neighbourhood on Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton Warwickshire, CV11 6YN. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 920-pupil school. The school will include a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) with up to 20 places available by 2030.

How to Apply:
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.

If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher, on 024 7510 6910. The closing date for applications is 9am, Monday 8th September 2025 with interviews likely to be later that week.

Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:
• Why you would like to work at Higham Lane North Academy
• Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.

Additional Information:
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the school's vetting procedure. Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the school website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.