Assistant Cluster Estates Manager

Salary: £37,000-£40,000 FTE depending upon qualifications, skills and experience.

Working hours: Monday-Friday 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 1 st February 2026 m

Required for: ASAP

This is a new role within the Northamptonshire Cluster at United Learning. This role is to lead on health and safety, support the effective management of estates and building compliance across the cluster. Flexibility is essential within this role with the opportunity to work from home where appropriate as well as work on site at the four schools within the cluster.

The Northamptonshire cluster schools are Kettering Buccleuch Academy, Northampton Academy, Campion School and Montsaye Academy.

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

You will have experience with Health and Safety management and will be responsible for carrying out regular site inspections, audits and compliance checks. You will have a desire to attain the highest possible standards in the work that you do. You have excellent organisational skills and be able to work on your own initiative and be confident and comfortable in acting as a key point of contact for external auditors, inspectors and enforcement officers (HSE, Fire Service, insurance etc.).

You will be able to prioritise your workload effectively and have excellent communication and IT skills and be able to exercise your role with discretion and confidentiality.

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

The Northamptonshire cluster school are part of United Learning, a large and growing group of independent and state schools working together to achieve the best in everyone, aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

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

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: 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 INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing 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

Contract Type Permanent

Closing Date 01.02.2026

Salary Description £37,000-£40,000 FTE depending upon qualifications, skills and experience