Cluster Health & Safety Officer

Location:                     Northamptonshire

Salary:                           £37,000-£42,600 FTE, depending upon qualifications, skills and experience, plus £2,400 travel allowance p.a.

Working hours        Monday-Friday 37.5 hours per week

Closing date:             31^st May 2026 at 23.59pm

Required for:             ASAP

The role

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.  The post-holder will work closely with the Cluster Estates Manager to ensure that the school sites are safe, well-maintained and fully compliant with statutory requirements.  During school holiday periods, the role will also provide operational support for site projects, refurbishments works and contractor management.

Flexibility is essential within this role 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 currently comprises the Estates Manager and Estates Coordinator who work in close partnership with the individual schools’ facilities management teams, senior leadership teams and other cluster-level colleagues.

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.

About You

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.

United Learning

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 TimBall@kba.uk