ESTATES AND FACILITIES MANAGER
Dartford Grammar School, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2HW12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours of work are 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, although some flexibility will be required.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- DGS8 pay range £28,995 - £32,769 (DGS9 maybe available for an exceptional candidate - £32,933 - £37,188)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Dartford Grammar School is a leading boys’ grammar school with a large co-educational sixth form. The school is a busy one, with an extensive after-school co-curricular programme and with frequent visitors to the site. Our facilities include the Mick Jagger Centre, The Becket Sports Centre and a 7 acre playing field with its own pavilion.
We are looking for a positive, well organised and motivated Estates and Facilities Manager to maintain our school to a high standard and join our hardworking and friendly team. Our successful candidate will ideally have previous premises management experience, and will take full responsibility for the care, maintenance and security of the premises at Dartford Grammar School.
The Estates & Facilities Manager is a key player in ensuring the high standards of compliance are maintained and that facilities are fit for purpose. You will manage the site team and ensure the internal and external environment is conducive to the promotion of learning.
A sound knowledge of Health and Safety is essential to this role, as well as the ability to communicate effectively and to react quickly to the needs of a busy school environment.
What the school offers its staff
Hours of work are 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, although some flexibility will be required.
The Estates & Facilities Manager is paid on DGS8 pay range £28,995 - £32,769 (DGS9 maybe available for an exceptional candidate - £32,933 - £37,188) Holiday entitlement is 30 days (increasing to 31 days after 5 years) plus Bank Holidays.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mbexley@dartfordgrammarschool.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Dartford Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1539 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Dartford Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- mbexley@dartfordgrammarschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01322 223039
Dartford Grammar School is a selective secondary academy for boys, which admits girls to its sixth form. There are six forms of entry to Year 7, and all of the students joining the school are from the top 25% of the ability range. The students come from Dartford, neighbouring towns and villages, and nearby London boroughs. The current roll is 1,532, including 616 in the sixth form.
Arranging a visit to Dartford Grammar School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mbexley@dartfordgrammarschool.org.uk.
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