Site Operative (Mobile in the West Region)

About this Role This advertisement will show a location of Digital Media Centre in Barnsley as that is where our central team are based, but this role will work flexibly across the academies in West Region. Wellspring is a growing community of Primary, Secondary, Special and Alternative Provision Academies across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. We believe in making a real difference by improving the lives and life chances of every young person in our care. Our Academies are vibrant, autonomous, community focused and highly successful. Whether at the start of their school life or heading into adulthood, we treat all our pupils with ‘unconditional positive regard.’ This means we focus on understanding each child as an individual and meeting their own, unique needs. At Wellspring, we have always talked about ethics and values as the heart of our culture. They have been our guiding lights. We have taken the harder path many times to remain true to our values. Our leaders are the custodians of our values. Wellspring has ambitious plans to grow over the next five years, building on our strong reputation and performance to date. At the heart of this growth are our people and the culture they own. We have earned our success thus far by empowering leaders within the context of a comprehensive and robust Trust-wide monitoring and risk assurance framework. We aim to raise expectations and ambitions for every young person in our care. We aim to make a difference. We have a mobile site operative position currently available, the aim of this position is to improve and enhance the service we offer to our academies. This role will work flexibly across the academies in the West Region (Leeds & Barnsley). Purpose of the post: To help in leading in the focus on compliance and maintenance across the West area. To provide a comprehensive, customer led, estates and facilities service across multiple academies within the Trust, ensuring the efficient and effective running of all aspects of estates related operations. To ensure our Academies premises are maintained to a high standard. To ensure the estates team deliver a clean, safe, secure learning and working environment. To supervise site operatives regarding day to day duties as required. Main Responsibilities: Monitor and update the estates management system (TRM) across multiple sites, which monitors compliance areas in terms of health and safety and estates management, for example, statutory inspections around fire, legionella, gas safety, etc. Support and provide training to users of TRM, ensuring they are equipped to effectively use the system. Assist with the implementation of systems, policies and procedures to ensure the smooth operations of the Academy sites. Make a significant contribution to the development of the Academy sites to continually improve the buildings, sites, grounds to benefit pupils, staff and to enhance teaching and learning functions. Contribute to the longer term 5