Area Facilities Manager (Estates Partner)

The Howard Partnership Trust, Leatherhead, KT24 5JR

5 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  7 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  1 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £47,951.00 - £52,942.00 Annually (FTE) P10

Area Facilities Manager (Estates Partner) job summary

Join our team and help shape safe, efficient and inspiring learning environments across our Trust.

We are seeking a proactive, skilled Area Facilities Manager (Estates Partner) to oversee the operational performance, statutory compliance, maintenance and sustainability of our school estates. This role is key to ensuring our buildings remain safe, warm, compliant and fully supportive of high‑quality teaching and learning.

As an Estates Partner, you will work across several schools, leading site teams, managing planned and reactive maintenance, overseeing statutory inspections, and supporting the delivery of capital and lifecycle projects. You’ll use data to inform decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear, professional advice to Principals and senior leaders. You’ll also play an important role in our sustainability and energy‑reduction ambitions.

This is a Trust‑wide role, working alongside a team of Estates Partners, with an expectation of regular travel between our schools. The role can be based at Oxted School, Three Rivers Academy or Thomas Knyvett College. As regular travel between sites is essential to the role, a full driving licence is desirable.

We’re looking for someone with strong estates, facilities or building‑services experience, excellent organisational skills, and a confident, solutions‑focused approach. You’ll bring solid knowledge of compliance, health and safety, maintenance planning and contractor management, along with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical colleagues. IOSH Managing Safely (or willingness to complete) is essential, with additional estates‑related qualifications or NEBOSH highly desirable.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact — improving the estate, supporting staff and students, and helping shape a safe, efficient and future‑focused learning environment.

If you’re committed, collaborative and passionate about high‑quality estate management, we’d love to hear from you.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Howard Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-howard-partnership-trust

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