Job Description

Wood Green School

Oxfordshire
34,434 - 37,280 per year


Expiring soon

Salary:

Grade 9

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

15 October 2025

Job overview

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School Estate Manager

Lead the Way in Creating Inspiring Learning Environments.



Wood Green School is proud of a safe, well-run estate that supports great teaching, vibrant community use, and a busy programme of improvements. With a new build underway (2026/27 completion) and a refreshed Operational Excellence strategy, we're strengthening how we manage our site with the introduction of the School Estate Manager.

About the role

As School Estates Manager, you'll be the lead practitioner for our buildings and grounds: the person who makes sure the estate is safe, compliant and fit for purpose. You'll oversee planned and reactive maintenance, manage estates contracts (e.g. cleaning, statutory inspections), run the premises helpdesk, and drive service standards using clear KPIs.





You'll line-manage a 5-person estates team, enabling them to deliver, while you focus on assurance, improvements and readiness for projects.

About the Role

Lead estate compliance and assurance: Act as Responsible Person for fire safety and Duty Holder for asbestos/water hygiene, ensuring all statutory checks, risk assessments and remedial actions are completed to standard.


Manage estates operations: Oversee the premises helpdesk, cleaning contract, planned/reactive maintenance and estate readiness for lettings and events.


Drive improvement and value: Monitor KPIs, manage budgets for maintenance and grounds, compile quotes/business cases, and lead estates-side continuous improvement and sustainability reporting.


Lead and develop the team: Line-manage the estates team, ensuring recruitment, induction, performance and training build a resilient workforce.

What we're looking for

A practical estates/facilities professional with strong compliance knowledge (H&S at Work, Fire Safety Order, asbestos/Legionella).


Organised, calm under pressure, and comfortable juggling compliance, projects and day-to-day operations.


Confident managing staff and contractors; able to set clear standards and follow through, as well as maintaining high standards of service delivery.


Data-minded, able to use KPIs to spot trends and drive improvements.


NEBOSH/IOSH (or equivalent/willingness to work toward) and solid hands-on experience in a regulated setting (education/public sector desirable).

Why join Wood Green School?

This is an exciting time to shape the future of our estate. You'll play a central role in developing a new five-year School Estate Management Strategy, aligned with the Trust's emerging strategy, and have the opportunity to review current ways of working and implement improvements. Your work will directly protect teaching and learning, improve the experience of students, staff and the community, and ensure value for money in everything we do.
If you're ready to lead a safe, compliant, high-performing school estate, and enjoy seeing the impact of your work every day, we'd love to hear from you.


To apply please visit My New Term by the 15th October 2025 at Midday.





Wood Green School and the Acer Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism; all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and obtain any other statutorily required clearance. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/last employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role. Wood Green School is an equal opportunities employer.

About

Wood Green School

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Wood Green School

Woodstock Road, Witney
Oxfordshire
OX28 1DX
United Kingdom

+44 1993 702355

Wood Green School is a mixed, comprehensive, secondary school with sixth form situated in Witney, Oxfordshire. It is an academy converter operating under The Acer Trust, which was co-founded by four Oxfordshire schools: Wood Green School, Chalgrove Primary School, Icknield Community College and Matthew Arnold School.



Wood Green School provides 1,335 places for students between the ages of 11 and 18 when fully subscribed. It converted to academy status in February 2017.

Headteacher

Rob Shadbolt

Values and vision

Wood Green School subscribes to the Acer Trust values of trust, equity and opportunity, believing these are essential for a successful collaboration and for providing high-quality education for all students through these important years of their lives.



The secondary school also uses the LEARN Well values of learning, effort, aspiration, respect, nurture and wellbeing to capture the most important aspects of an excellent education. High expectations are always placed on students, and they are helped to achieve these in a happy and supportive environment.

Ofsted report

"Leaders at all levels, teachers and governors have effectively brought about improvement across the school. Leaders make very effective use of information on students' progress to identify where strengths and weaknesses life. Subject leaders make a positive contribution to improvement by closely monitoring the quality of teaching in their departments. Students' social, spiritual, moral and cultural development is promoted effectively across the school and strongly contributes to the school's caring ethos."



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