Facilities Manager

Mabel Prichard School wishes to appoint a Facilities Manager who will demonstrate the skills and abilities to manage and organise the academy’s site and facilities to the highest standards, ensuring that staff, students and visitors are safe and secure at all times. The Facilities Manager will demonstrate a range of operational and management skills and will work flexibly to meet the academy’s needs. The successful candidate will have professional experience in a site management role and will welcome the opportunity to develop their career. About The Role You will support the senior leadship team and wider school community in providing high standards of teaching and learning facilities across the academy’s two sites and to ensure that the academy meets its statutory health and safety requirements. Some responsibilites include: To ensure that the ongoing and future needs of the academy are met in terms of site, property, assets, facilities and Health and Safety. To ensure that the school premises are cleaned to the approved specification To take overall responsibility for school security and day-to-day maintenance issues. Day-to-day management of the site, ensuring that staff, students and visitors are safe and secure at all times. To liaise and maintain relationships with suppliers, contractors and hirers of the school and deal with any problems as they arise. Supervision and monitoring of contractors, ensuring that contracts are carried out in accordance with specifications and liaising whilst contractors are on site. Ensure compliance with statutory and best-practice health and safety legislation and requirements. Maintenance of accurate records, information and data. Provision of reports, analysis of data and information. Working constructively as part of a team, understanding academy roles and responsibilities, and fully participating in the life of the academy. About You Experience of management of Health and Safety Knowledge of relevant Health and Safety legislation Experience of site management Experience of liaising, supervising and monitoring contractors and suppliers Good communication and interpersonal skills Organisational and administrative skills Good literacy and numeracy skills Excellent ICT skills to support the school site Why Join Us? At The Gallery Trust, we believe our staff should feel as supported as our students. We offer: Professional Growth: Access to tailored training, secondments, andOpportunities for collaborative working across the schools in The Trust, offering the chance to liaise with experienced colleagues, building knowledge and professional networks. Financial Benefits: Competitive LGPS pension, life assurance, salary sacrifice schemes (including Cycle to Work), Contribution towards glasses and eye tests for DSE use. Wellbeing First: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, the Wisdom wellbeing app, and yearly flu vaccinations. How to Apply To apply for this po