Higham Lane North Academy
Warwickshire
£26,403 - £28,142 per year
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
14 September 2025
Apply by:
8 September 2025
Job overview
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
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 ) and email them to, 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 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.
About Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane North Academy
Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV11 6YN
United Kingdom
A brand new secondary free school following the model of Higham Lane School will open in Nuneaton in September 2025
We are hugely excited that the Secretary of State for Education has signed the Funding Agreement for Higham Lane North Academy and we are nowpreparing to open this new non-selective, state-funded 11-16 secondary free school in September 2025.
Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7 from September 2025 at a
state-of-the-art school
and community resource at the new
Milby Meadows neighbourhood at Top Farm in Weddington
. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 900-pupil school with 180 pupils in each year group from Year 7 to Year 11.
Established by Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane North Academy will benefit from fantastic collaboration with its sister school, Higham Lane School, a high-performing 11-18 comprehensive school, located approximately one mile away.
It will follow the same successful model for secondary education that has seen Higham Lane School judged as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2019 and as World Class in 2021, and will continue the tradition of high-quality educational provision, academic excellence, exceptional pastoral care and personal development in a school at the heart of its community.
HLNA's Headteacher
Mrs Kirstie Robinson
, previously Deputy Headteacher at Higham Lane School and responsible for the curriculum and delivering progress and attainment, started in post in January 2025. With achievements including securing the school's highest-ever progress scores for the past two years placing HLS within the top 6% of all state-funded schools in the country, her lead areas of teaching and learning being rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2019, spearheading the successful bid in 2021 for the school to secure World Class status and being part of the initial team that delivered the successful application for Higham Lane North Academy, HLNA couldn't be in a safer pair of hands for ensuring the effective implementation of our partner school's highly successful model and building exceptional educational experiences for our pupils from day one.
Our learning ethos is founded on the belief that there are no limits to the learning and development of each pupil. The cutting-edge facilities at this brand-new school will enable pupils to access not only the broad and balanced knowledge
curriculum
based on the proven Higham Lane School model but also an innovative education that will encompass digital media, computing, engineering, drama, music and art, with ample opportunity for sports recreation and education. An extended school day will provide access to a wide choice of enrichment activities. An enhanced
transition programme
will ensure pupils make a successful move from primary to secondary school and on to their post-16 option of choice.
We are working closely with the Department for Education and Warwickshire County Council to ensure the successful opening of this exceptional new provision and look forward to welcoming our founding families in September 2025.
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