Deputy Premises Manager
Avanti House School, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2EQ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2026
Closing date
11 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- Grade 5, £31,593 - £34,194 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
We are seeking a dedicated Deputy Premises Manager to support the delivery of a safe, well-maintained and welcoming environment at Avanti House Secondary School.
Working closely with the Site Manager and colleagues across the school, you will play an important role in overseeing day-to-day premises operations, coordinating maintenance and supporting our premises and cleaning teams. You will also help ensure that the school meets the required health and safety and compliance standards, while supporting contractors and responding effectively to maintenance and operational needs.
With your practical approach, strong organisational skills and facilities management experience, you will help create an environment where pupils and staff can learn, work and thrive.
This is an excellent opportunity to take on a varied and rewarding role where your contribution will have a direct impact on the smooth and effective running of the school.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Support the Site Manager in overseeing the day-to-day maintenance, cleanliness, safety and smooth operation of the school premises, ensuring the environment is safe and fit for learning.
- Coordinate and supervise Premises Officers, caretaking and cleaning teams and external contractors, ensuring work is completed efficiently, safely and to a high standard.
- Carry out regular inspections and daily, weekly and monthly checks, identifying maintenance, repair and improvement requirements and supporting the delivery of planned maintenance schedules.
- Support the management of maintenance budgets, contractors, health and safety compliance and digital estates systems, ensuring resources are used effectively and records are maintained accurately.
- Work closely with the Site Manager, Principal, Business Support Manager and wider school community to respond to premises-related needs, emergencies and lettings requirements.
What are we looking for?
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- Experience in a facilities management role.
- Experience managing a team, including cleaners and caretakers.
- Strong knowledge of health and safety regulations and other relevant legislation.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the Southwest of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti House School
- Organisation type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1206 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Avanti House School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti House Secondary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school based in Harrow, open to students of all faiths.
What makes Avanti Secondary School distinctive is its values-based approach to education. This encourages students to value self, others and the environment and empowers them to be effective learners as well as good citizens. The school offers a traditional and extensive curriculum, but also offers a focused study of Ethics, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Meditation and Yoga.
In 2022 our Year 11 students gained excellent GCSE examination results with 89% of students gaining at least a Grade 4 in both their Mathematics and English qualifications. Students gained excellent results in a wide range of subjects across the curriculum and many have progressed into our Sixth Form. Our Sixth Form has grown from an initial 36 students in 2018 to over 320 this year. This highlights the quality of the teaching and learning across the school and the vast majority of the pupils studying in our Sixth Form progress onto their first choice universities and apprenticeship schemes.
A wide range of extra-curricular opportunities enable the students to develop their own characters and become outstanding citizens. Our most recent Ofsted highlights that the behaviour and attitudes shown by pupils and adults are exemplary and the provision for pupils, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is exceptional.
Avanti House Secondary School is based in a large site in Wemborough Road, Stanmore. The multi-million pound complex boasts state of the art science labs, computing rooms, design and technology workshops and classrooms that will enable students to make outstanding progress through exceptional teaching and learning. The fantastic sports and arts facilities also enable the students to excel and further develop their passions in these areas through extra-curricular activities and our successful sports teams.
Arranging a visit to Avanti House School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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