Job Description

Woodbridge School

Suffolk
52,000 - 58,650 per year

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

8 July 2025

Job overview

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52,000 - 58,650 depending on experience

37.5 hours per week, full-time


We are looking for a Head of Estates to join the Seckford Foundation, working across one of Suffolk's most beautiful and diverse portfolios. Spanning over 60 acres and encompassing Woodbridge Prep and Senior Schools, Seckford Theatre, Seckford Care, which includes a range of historic and modern properties, this is a rare opportunity to be part of shaping the future of a prestigious and community-focused organisation. You will be at the heart of delivering operational excellence across Maintenance, Grounds, and cleaning teams, ensuring every site is safe, efficient, and visually outstanding.


This high-impact leadership role calls for a dynamic, hands-on professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional service to a wide range of stakeholders.

With a strong emphasis on actively listening to, considering, and implementing perspectives from across the Seckford Foundation to ensure inclusive and effective decision making.

If you're ready to make a lasting difference in a role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you. To apply for this role, please click on the link and complete the application form. A CV and covering letter will not suffice.


For more information about the school and this opportunity, and to download an application pack, please visit: https://www.woodbridgeschool.org.uk/about/staff-vacancies/

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Closing date:

8th July 2025

Interviews W/C:

14th July 2025


Woodbridge School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Attached documents

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Job Pack - Head of Estates (June 25) PL.pdf
1.24MB

About

Woodbridge School

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Woodbridge School

Burkitt Road, Woodbridge
Suffolk
IP12 4JH
United Kingdom

+44 1394 615000

Woodbridge School

Set in the beautiful town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, Woodbridge School comprising our Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior School was established in 1587. An independent co-educational day and boarding school for ages 4 to 18, the original mission of the School was to provide an education for the young who would then give back to their community, thus enriching it and them all; this is embedded and continues in all that we do today.



Woodbridge School, including our Prep, Senior School, Sixth Form and Boarding, has been rated 'Excellent' in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) 2023.



Combining the best of tradition and innovation, our curriculum delivers the perfect balance of life skills, creative challenges and academic excellence. Woodbridge School offers an education that shapes itself around each student, ensuring they become everything they are meant to be. Our

Prep School

is a caring nurturing, lively and inspirational introduction to School, inspiring and investing a true love of learning in children. Our

Senior School

offers the perfect balance of creative challenges, academic excellence as well as interpersonal and social skills, for life throughout School - and beyond.

Every opportunity at Woodbridge School

Students have access not only to an excellent education but to a wealth of pastoral care, co-curricular activities, societies and sport. From learning hockey with a double Olympian, working with precious metals and fabrics in Leatherworking and Silversmithing, to attending Chess lessons taught by an International Chess Master, learning and exploring new techniques in Maths challenges, experimenting for fun in Science Club, developing performance skills in LAMDA and debating with our MUN club, there is something for every student.


'Pupils develop excellent skills in the broader curriculum through a wide-ranging programme of extra-curricular activities.' ISI Report 2023

Collaborative relationships

We expect students to work hard, develop the ability to work independently and to achieve excellent results as they have done this year; their superb GCSE and A level results reflect both the achievements and successful collaboration of and between our students and teachers; our students confirming their relationships with teachers is one of the main reasons they choose to stay on to study A levels at our

Sixth Form

.



We monitor progress carefully and provide targeted support when necessary, and always keep parents proactively informed, encouraging you to feel easy about contacting us at any time about any matter.

Clear vision and values

Of course, preparing young people for life means much more than just excellent grades. It means young people developing strong communication skills, the ability to lead and work with others and, above all, a self-confidence to positively contribute to the society in which they live. This means at Woodbridge, what happens outside of the classroom is just as important as what happens inside. Offering parents and students clear vision and values, which guide dynamic, respectful, high-achieving students to not only find their path but to fulfil their potential; at Woodbridge your child's journey is our entire focus.

A flexible, comprehensive system of bus routes

With a number of minibus services operating daily throughout the local region, Woodbridge School offers a comprehensive system of bus routes reaching across Suffolk as well as Essex.

Full and weekly boarding

For those living further afield, the School offers full and weekly boarding options. Boarders form a vital part of the community at Woodbridge School, with everyone supporting and learning from one another.

Visit Woodbridge School

You are welcome to visit Woodbridge School at any time by appointment, or to join us at any of our whole School Open Days as well as our Sixth Form Open Evenings. Visit our website for dates and details of how to register www.woodbridgeschool.org.uk.Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow

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