Deputy Estate Manager

Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  9 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full-time 37 hours per week - 52 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC 22 - NJC 27 £35,073 - £39,880 FTE

What skills and experience we're looking for

Wave Multi Academy Trust is seeking a proactive and skilled Deputy Estates Manager to support the effective operational management of our estates services across our Academies. This is a key role focused on ensuring our academies provide safe, secure, and well-maintained learning environments for pupils and staff.

Working closely with the Estates Manager, the successful candidate will play a vital role in maintaining high standards of premises management. You will coordinate and deliver both planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring all works comply with relevant regulatory, health and safety, fire, and security requirements. You will also support the day-to-day operation of estates services, contribute to the supervision and coordination of estates staff and contractors, and provide practical and technical advice to academy sites.

This hands-on role requires a strong practical background in building maintenance, including experience in carpentry, basic electrical work, plumbing, decorating, and general repairs. You will combine technical expertise with effective people management skills to help deliver a responsive, efficient, and compliant estates service across the Trust.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.

We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.

What the school offers its staff

The Benefits

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

FreeParking

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.

Who We Are

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Deputy Estates Manager JD and Person Spec (3).pdf - 317 KB (opens in new tab)

About Wave Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Wave Multi Academy Trust website
• Email address: recruitment@waveedu.org
• Phone number: 01209 211525
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wave-multi-academy-trust

Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.

We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.

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