Site Manager - The Buckingham School
Location: Buckingham
Overview
Term time only: No
Salary type: Bucks Pay
Salary Details: Bucks Pay Range 6 (£36,495 - £39,876 FTE)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Closing date: 09/01/2026
Interviews to be held: Thursday 15th January 2026
About us
The Buckingham School is a caring and supportive school with excellent student ambassadors who represent The Buckingham School very well, displaying good behaviour and a positive attitude to work. Our school motto is 'Success for All' and we aim to give all students life changing opportunities through educational achievement. We will continue to drive school improvement in order to achieve the very best for every student.
Website: www.buckinghamschool.org
About the role
The Buckingham School is seeking to appoint a dynamic, problem solving, suitably qualified and experience individual as a Site Manager to join our friendly and supportive team. The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate a willingness to find workable, practical and financially viable solutions. Working in this environment requires ‘thinking on your feet’, good organisational skills, clear and strong communication approaches, a positive ‘can do’ attitude, a good and appropriate sense of humour and the ability to work flexibly, including working unsociable hours.
The suitable candidate will lead a team and enthuse others around them to complete tasks and deliver excellent customer service. They will be someone who understands the crucial role that premises plays in a young person’s experience of education, as well as that of staff and external users. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a strong track record of professionalism and experience in this field.
We are a thriving school with over 1000 students on roll, ranging from students aged 11-18.
Whilst academic achievement lies at the heart of what we do, we never forget the importance of fostering mutual respect and decency amongst our pupils. We believe that all our children have something to offer, and we are driven by a desire to find areas where each of them can excel.
We strive for “Success for All”. We pride ourselves on our key objectives:
• A vibrant, exciting learning community
• Students develop knowledge, skills and qualities - and the qualifications – needed to thrive in life and work
• Innovation to enhance all learning opportunities
• Student ownership and responsibility
• A supportive and respectful environment
• An inclusive and proud school community
• Strong parent engagement and bond
The successful candidate will:-
• Have an understanding and awareness of the importance of Health & Safety issues (to be NEBOSH qualified, would be desirable)
• Experience and/or qualifications within the building and trade (would be desirable)
• First Aid qualified and/or willing to be trained (essential)
• The post holder should expect the job to involve a level of ‘first hand’ physical and hands on involvement
• The post holder, and team members, will regularly work outdoors and will sometimes be exposed to a range of weather conditions
• The post holder will be expected to work unsociable/out of hours to cover call outs and emergencies
• The post holder will be required to undertake shift patterns, including early starts and late finishes
About you
Please see person specification attached.
Other information
Please access the full job description, application form and self-declaration form from the school’s website www.buckinghamschool.org . Completed applications, giving full contact details of two recent relevant professional referees (one of which is your current employer) to: Mr Andy McGinnes, Headteacher, The Buckingham School, London Road, Buckingham, MK18 1AT or email to [email protected].
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also committed in promoting community cohesion, healthy school and young enterprise.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
