Health, Safety and Compliance Manager

Cathedral Schools Trust, Bristol, BS20 0HU

18 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 August 2025
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 March 2025

Job details

Job role: Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: 37.5 hours per week, all year round
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: SCP S28 - S34, £33,144 to £38,963 (1.0FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

About Us

Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) is a family of schools committed to inspiring learning both in and beyond the classroom. With a strong focus on music and the creative arts, we support every student and staff member in reaching their full potential. If you’re looking for a Trust that values creativity, growth, and meaningful learning, CST could be the perfect place for you.

We invite you to join our dynamic Estates department, a vital part of the CST Central team. Based at St Katherine’s School, Pill, you’ll work across all of the schools within our Trust, making a real impact in diverse environments. With a mix of on-site and hybrid working, you'll support our Head of Estates and Facilities in overseeing Health & Safety, Facilities and the Estate, with each day bringing new and exciting challenges. You will be working with each of our schools’ Caretaker or Site Manager, along with Administrators or their Business Manager.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an effective and highly organised Health, Safety and Compliance Manager to help to ensure that our schools provide a safe, secure and welcoming environment for children, staff and visitors.

If you join us, this role will see you assisting in the management of compliance in our Estates functions and wider work on Health and Safety, managing a variety of projects across our schools and building strong, supportive relationships with all colleagues across the Trust.

About You

You have a precise eye for detail and will have developed excellent verbal and written communication skills through your career or personal experience. You will be able to bring to us a flair for analytical thinking and the ability to work independently, making informed decisions. You will have experience of Health & Safety in the education sector or a similar environment.

More information about the Trust, School and Role

To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
To find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust please read the attached Recruitment pack or visit our website: https://www.cathedralschoolstrust.org/
Informal enquiries can be made via email to Nina Adams, Head of Estates and Facilities, recruitment@cathedralschoolstrust.org

How to apply ...

We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.

Please complete our application form by midnight on Monday 21 April 2025
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Wednesday 30 April 2025 at St Katherine’s School, Pill
All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you

Continuing Professional and Leadership development
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Many of our schools are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, a number of our schools offer free onsite or nearby street parking.
Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.

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.