Premises Manager

Hele's School, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 4LT

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  14 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 December 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: £30,024.00 - £36,363.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Grade E/F (Grade E scp 15-20, Grade F scp 22-25)*

Premises Manager job summary

Premises Manager

To be responsible for all aspects of site management including a wide range of duties connected with the fabric and grounds of the school. This includes Security, cleanliness, portage, monitoring contractors, routine maintenance, decorating and minor repairs, compliance, refurbishment. The day-to-day management of a team of caretakers & cleaners including the allocation and monitoring of work and performance, weekly rotas and cover arrangements. To be responsible for the management of Premises Budgets, buildings running costs, ordering and replacing stock.

*The grade E pay range will apply initially while the post holder focuses exclusively on delivering the premises management role at Hele’s School. This arrangement reflects the current scope of responsibilities. However, the Trust is in the process of implementing a cluster-based working model across its estate, which will require premises managers to extend their remit to include primary schools within the local cluster. As these additional responsibilities are introduced, the role and associated pay structure will be revised to Grade F to ensure alignment with the expanded duties.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hele’s School and Westcountry Schools Trust. Hele’s is a supportive, friendly and oversubscribed learning community with a very good reputation. We wish to appoint an exceptional candidate, who possesses energy and creativity and can provide effective and efficient cover to support colleagues. If you are motivated by the prospect of being part of ‘Team Hele’s’ and by working alongside others who share a passion and determination to provide the very best opportunities of our young people, then we would very much welcome your application.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and have ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of young people.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications irrespective of race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation and/or age. We value the individuality and creativity that every worker potentially brings to the workforce.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references - references will be sought prior to interview. Proof of qualifications is compulsory.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Hele’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people; therefore, all posts will be subject to a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Hele's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1393 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hele's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hele-s-school

I take great pleasure in welcoming you to Hele’s School! We are a school with a tradition of academic excellence, high aspirations and a big heart. A school that students and staff are proud to attend. A school where we never compromise our insistence that everyone is valued, learns, enjoys and achieves. Expectations for staff and students are high, but very simple; work hard both to do things right and to do the right thing…even when no one is looking!

Our mission is to support and challenge each individual, adult or child, to be the best they can be. We have a ‘no excuses’ philosophy based on growth mindset principles, which reinforces our belief that all of us can always improve, and that nothing is impossible. Quite simply, it isn’t about being ‘the best’ at something but being better than we were yesterday or today. It is for this reason that recognising and celebrating endeavour, as well as achievement, is something we hold dear.

We work hard at providing an inclusive, calm, and purposeful learning environment, and aim to ensure all students have opportunities to enrich their learning, to discover new skills and interests, and to master others through providing a breadth of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities to excite and engage young people, wherever their interests or aspirations may lie.

I am extremely proud to lead a dedicated and enthusiastic team of staff who are passionate about working with young people and are committed to ensuring that those entrusted in our care get the best life chances possible. Everything we do is shaped by our determination to ensure that each and every child has a positive and memorable experience of school; that they thrive, flourish and, crucially, are happy. We focus on opportunities to develop teaching and learning at every turn and, importantly, teachers at Hele’s have a resolve to be the best they can be in the classroom; our core purpose being to remove barriers to learning so that young people can be inspired, can aspire and can achieve. In return we expect a buy in to our belief that we all have an active role to play in making our school a great place to be, which manifests itself in every child displaying the highest standards of commitment to learning, pride and care.

Hele’s is a community committed to personal and professional growth of all, with dedicated staff and governance at local and trust level, supportive families and committed students. I have no doubt that the right candidate will be happy, supported and fulfilled being part of Team Hele’s, and will take great pride in what we can achieve together for our community and for each other. I do hope you are inspired to apply for this post and I look forward to reading your application.

Thank you in advance for the time and emotional investment that I know you will commit to this process.
With very best wishes.
Justine Mason
Principal

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