Head of IT and Digital Infrastructure in Cheam

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Hours Per Week: 36

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date:8:00am, Mon 12th Oct, 2026

Interview Date(s):Monday 19 October (First Stage Online Interview); Tuesday 3 November (Second Stage In Person Interview at Carshalton High School for Girls)

The Opportunity:

This is both an exciting and an important time to join us. In November 2026, we will welcome a fourth school into the Trust, increasing our annual turnover from approximately £35 million to £50 million. As we grow, so too does the scale and complexity of the infrastructure and services needed to support our schools effectively.

Over the past two years, we have been developing our approach to infrastructure across the Trust, with a stronger focus on professional standards, consistency, resilience, strategic planning and the quality of the service we provide to our schools. We are now at the stage where that direction needs to be translated into more mature and consistent systems, processes, controls and ways of working across our IT environment. Our continued growth makes this both an important priority and a significant opportunity for the person joining us.

The successful candidate will inherit an environment with different levels of maturity across its systems, infrastructure, documentation and service management arrangements. They will need to develop a clear understanding of the existing technology estate, identify risks, dependencies and priorities, and establish structures required to support a secure, resilient and increasingly standardised Trust wide environment.

What we offer:

To support the achievement of our education mission, we recognise that our strength lies in the talent and dedication of our staff and we will prioritise recruitment and retention strategies that attract high performing people who align with our shared ethos and reflect the communities we serve.

We are continuously working to introduce initiatives or make changes which support them both professionally and personally. xgikmsk Some of the initiatives we have recently introduced are a new Health and Wellbeing Cash plan for staff and their dependents; a generous discretionary leave scheme; and we have made changes to the performance review process ensuring a strong focus on continued professional development.

We offer great flexibility and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work from

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