Operations Lead - Education

About The Company

At Salutem Care and Education, our aim is to empower people to live a life they choose, regardless of the care or support they need.

We are proud to provide a range of care and support across our schools, day centres, and residential homes for children and adults. Just like any strong community, we want the very best for the individuals we support.

We’re proud to be recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer United Kingdom, reflecting our exceptional culture, care, and commitment to our people.

In addition, we’re honoured to be named among the 2025 Top 100 Global Inspiring Workplaces, and to have achieved Top 10 in the 2026 UK & Ireland Inspiring Workplaces Awards.

We’re passionate about developing and supporting colleagues for the future. Through a culture of continuous learning and reflective practice, we create opportunities for personal and professional growth — helping our people build meaningful and rewarding careers in care.

Operations Manager

Beaumont College

Make a Meaningful Difference Through Operational Excellence

Beaumont College is seeking an experienced and dynamic Operations Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight of business support services, workforce planning, HR operations, and compliance across the college.

Working closely with the Principal, Assistant Principal, Head of Care and Divisional Business Manager, you will help create a positive, compliant and high‑performing culture that enables both staff and students to thrive. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operational leader who is passionate about people, continuous improvement and delivering outstanding outcomes in specialist education and care.

As Operations Manager, you will provide leadership across workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, attendance management, compliance, business administration and operational systems.

You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and effective running of the college, driving improvements in workforce performance, operational effectiveness and regulatory compliance.

• Lead the day‑to‑day coordination of business support and operational services across the college.
• Be an active member of the Senior Leadership Team and support delivery of the College Development Plan.
• Translate strategic priorities into practical operational plans, clear responsibilities and measurable actions.
• Maintain oversight of operational risks, service pressures and dependencies, escalating significant concerns promptly.
• Lead cross‑college operational improvement projects and establish consistent, effective ways of working.
• Coordinate responses to urgent operational issues, minimising disruption to education, care and support services.
• Monitor the quality, responsiveness and value of operational support arrangements.

• Oversee the effective operation, presentation and upkeep of the college estate, buildings, grounds and shared facilities.
• Coordinate planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance, ensuring priorities are risk assessed, recorded, progressed and communicated.
• Maintain a clear schedule of maintenance requirements, statutory checks, remedial actions and planned improvement works.
• Oversee minor works, refurbishments and building projects from initial scoping through to completion, working with Property and other specialist teams as required.
• Coordinate access, permits, safeguarding controls and safe working arrangements for contractors on site.
• Monitor contractor performance, workmanship, timescales, disruption, completion records and value for money, escalating…