Head of Estates

Cavendish Education Trust, Eastbourne, BN21 1UE

3 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £38,865.00 - £41,569.00 Annually (Actual)

Head of Estates job summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your skills and expertise to maintain and develop our school sites to enable us to provide an excellent working and learning environment for our pupils and staff. This is an exciting time to join our team as Cavendish School is part of the DfE School Rebuilding Programme which involves the redevelopment of our sports centre.

The successful candidate will:

• manage site staff across all school sites and be a team player who is supportive of
• colleagues and needs to be flexible regarding working hours where necessary
• be the lead on trust projects including the planning and development to enhance our premises
• across the trust’s schools
• be a hands on leader, which will involve office based work, working directly with contractors and
• being able to carry out day to day premises tasks.
• ensure that all statutory and compliance requirements are met across the schools in accordance
• with strategic plans and Health and Safety
• be an excellent communicator and negotiator as the role will be liaising with school staff and
• contractors

As a full time position you will receive an annual leave entitlement per year and you will join a team of dedicated and hard-working staff.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Cavendish Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cavendish-education-trust

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