Estates Manager

What skills and experience we're looking for

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and school policy in all aspects of health and safety, including asbestos, COSHH, fire, security, electrics. Maintaining appropriate records.

2. Proactive management of the school site and grounds, ensuring they are maintained to a high standard and in a safe and healthy condition.

3. Creation and maintenance of a rolling premises development plan with clearly identified priorities, timescales and estimated costs.

4. Line management of the premises staff, ensuring continual coverage within specific times during both term time and school holidays. Carrying out performance management and ensuring that staff receive appropriate and adequate induction and training.

5. Procuring and managing contracts to ensure that safety tests are carried out at the requisite intervals including PAT, fire safety, gas safety, lift safety, water safety and specialist teaching equipment.

6. Maintenance of premises budgets to ensure adequate stocks of caretaking supplies for staff safety and maintenance tasks.

7. Management of the premises ticketing system, including responsibility for allocation of tasks, communication and problem-solving.

8. Line management meetings with Caretakers and Cleaning Supervisor. With weekly meetings with the Director of Finance & Resources.

9. Review school calendar to ensure all events are prepared for and resources in place. Support site team in helping set up rooms for events, and clear up afterwards.

10. Key-holder management and site security, being part of the team responding to emergency call-outs as required. In this connection, the Estates Manager may be called out in unsocial hours or at weekends to deal with security problems. To attend to the opening and closing of the premises at designated times.

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Undertake occasional letting duties

ensuring that the agreed user requirements are fully met. To carry out security duties and associated clearing up.

12. Manage all closed periods to ensure that improvements and developments can be achieved to time and to budget.

13. Co-ordination, oversight and monitoring of the performance of external contractors

14. Manage the safe and efficient operation of the school minibuses.

15. Carry out administrative processes relevant to the job.

16. To implement the school’s health and safety policy. Note and report as necessary on matters affecting the health and safety of persons on site. As far as possible to ensure compliance of all staff within health and safety regulations.

17. Support with CIF bids and external grant applications.

General Responsibilities

18. To be aware of and comply with all policies and procedures relating to child protection, security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

19. To participate in the school’s support staff appraisal scheme, attend meetings and training sessions when required e.g. first aid, manual handling, working at height.

20. To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, reporting any concerns to an appropriate person.

21. To be aware of and support difference, and to ensure equal opportunities for all.

22. To contribute to the overall work and aims of the school.

What the school offers its staff

Our teachers, support staff and Trustees are all committed to the DHSG mission and strive to ensure that it becomes a reality for our students. DHSG has a long tradition of excellence and was founded in 1908. We are proud of our history, but our main focus is looking to the future. We are a 21st century grammar school, whilst retaining the best academic traditions. We look after our staff at DHSG and have systems in place to support and develop our colleagues, including wellbeing. For example, we have an additional week for half term for all staff in October/November, which is paid.

We are a highly successful and oversubscribed 11-18 selective grammar school and one of the country’s highest performing state schools. Our students are absolutely fantastic and we value our staff here, and as such have sensible policies and systems in place.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced check by the Disclosure and Barring Service.