About this Role

ClusterHealth & Safety Officer
Location: Northamptonshire
Salary: £37,000-£42,600FTE, depending upon qualifications, skills and experience, plus £2,400 travelallowance p.a.

Working hours Monday-Friday37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 31st May 2026 at23.59pm

Required for: ASAP

Therole

This is a new role within theNorthamptonshire Cluster at United Learning. This role is to lead on health and safety, support the effectivemanagement of estates and building compliance across the cluster. The post-holder will work closely with theCluster Estates Manager to ensure that the school sites are safe,well-maintained and fully compliant with statutory requirements. During school holiday periods, the role willalso provide operational support for site projects, refurbishments works andcontractor management.

Flexibility is essential within thisrole with the opportunity to work from home where appropriate as well as regular,scheduled visits to the sites of the four schools within the cluster.

The Cluster Estates team currentlycomprises the Estates Manager and Estates Coordinator who work in closepartnership with the individual schools' facilities management teams, seniorleadership teams and other cluster-level colleagues.

The Northamptonshire cluster schools areKettering Buccleuch Academy, Northampton Academy, Campion School and MontsayeAcademy.

This is an outstanding opportunity foran established or aspiring H&S professional who would like an exciting,challenging and highly rewarding role within our thriving NorthamptonshireSchools cluster.

AboutYou

You will have experience with Health andSafety management and will be responsible for carrying out regular siteinspections, audits and compliance checks. You will have a desire to attain the highest possible standards in thework that you do. You have excellentorganisational skills and be able to work on your own initiative and beconfident and comfortable in acting as a key point of contact for externalauditors, inspectors and enforcement officers (HSE, Fire Service, insuranceetc.). You will be able to prioritiseyour workload effectively and have excellent communication and IT skills and beable to exercise your role with discretion and confidentiality.

A NEBOSH General Certificate (orequivalent) and IOSH Managing Safely is required plus evidence on ongoing CPDin H&S or estates management.

United Learning

The Northamptonshire cluster school arepart of United Learning, a large and growing group of independent and state schoolsworking together to achieve the best in everyone, aiming to offer a lifechanging education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achievemore by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum andour online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping tosimplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staffbetter: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately,the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSETdays per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and anongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call 'the best in everyone'.

For more information:

For a confidential discussion about this role, please contact Tim Ball, Cluster Estates Manager via email to TimBall@kba.uk