Job Description

Employer
The Mead Educational Trust
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire (Remote working)
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Salary
Grade 6 Point 15-18
Posted
17th October 2025
Start Date
To Be Confirmed
Expires
3rd November 2025 12:00 PM
Contract Type
Permanent
Start Date
To Be Confirmed
Job ID
1514526
Job Reference
20251017EMS

At The Mead Educational Trust, we have a vacancy for a Mead Centre Manager to join the friendly central team, based principally at The Mead Centre.

The Mead Centre Manger will provide high-level administrative, coordination, and quality assurance support to the Mead Centre's Business and Operations Manager and the Trust's Director of Governance, ensuring the effective, efficient, and compliant delivery of Trust-wide governance and operational compliance across the Mead Centre, including finance, HR, operations and health and safety.

Key Responsibilities

Support to the Business and Operations Manager


Provide high-level administrative and coordination support across all Mead Centre operations. Support Mead Centre health and safety, facilities, and compliance processes, maintaining accurate records and reporting as delegated. Deliver HR and safeguarding administration, including Single Central Record updates and safer recruitment processes and checks for all central staff and volunteers. Coordinate consultant and contractor engagement across the Mead Centre, ensuring all vetting and documentation meet Trust / statutory requirements Manage internal and external communications for the Mead Centre, ensuring timely, accurate, and professional exchange of information across teams and stakeholders Maintain and improve efficient systems and accurate records, ensuring confidentiality and compliance.

Support to the Director of Governance

Provide administrative support/ coordination across the trust - including meetings, documentation, and statutory record keeping/reporting as delegated. Undertake Trust-wide governance assurance and checks as delegated. Coordinate Trust Board and Academy Councillor onboarding and offboarding, ensuring all compliance steps are completed

Details:

Job Title: Mead Centre Manager



Grade: Grade 6



Salary Range: 32,325 - 34,721 per annum



Location: The Mead Centre and other TMET schools as required


Responsible to: Business and Operations Manager


Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year


Contract Type: Permanent

Safeguarding Statement:

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.