Premises Manager

High Storrs School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 7LH

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  19 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 November 2026

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: £34,237.00 - £38,510.00 Annually (FTE)

Premises Manager job summary

High Storrs is a highly successful, oversubscribed 11-18 comprehensive school in south-west Sheffield. We offer an exceptional learning environment where high academic standards sit alongside a strong commitment to inclusion, creativity and personal development. Our GCSE and A-level results are among the strongest in the city, with students achieving outstanding outcomes and progress from a wide range of starting points, but we are equally proud of the many wider achievements that enrich school life, from the arts, sport and charity work to our celebration of diversity and community values. Central to our success is a strong pastoral system built around our House structure, which supports students to settle, thrive and achieve, alongside a culture of partnership with families. We are equally committed to the wellbeing and professional development of staff through an extensive CPD programme and a proactive approach to staff wellbeing. High Storrs combines a proud tradition with a clear vision for the future, providing a broad curriculum, excellent facilities and a vibrant programme of extracurricular opportunities that ensure every day is purposeful, enriching and rewarding for both students and staff.

The Premises Manager is responsible for the effective management of a large school site, ensuring that the environment is safe, secure, compliant, sustainable, and fit for purpose. The role leads and manages the caretaking and cleaning teams, oversees planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and statutory compliance programmes, and ensures high standards of health and safety across the school estate. The Premises Manager is responsible for site security, contractor management, sustainability initiatives, and the coordination of school lettings, ensuring the school's facilities are maintained and operated efficiently to support teaching, learning, and wider community use.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

- Lead, manage, develop and supervise the caretaking and cleaning teams, ensuring high standards of performance and service delivery.

- Ensure the school remains fully compliant with all relevant health and safety legislation, statutory inspections, and premises-related regulations.

- Manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programmes and coordinate reactive maintenance to maintain the school's buildings and infrastructure.

- Oversee all site security arrangements, including access control, alarm systems, key holding, emergency procedures, and contractor management.

- Manage the school's cleaning provision, ensuring a safe, hygienic, and welcoming environment for pupils, staff, and visitors.

- Monitor and support the management of premises-related budgets, obtaining quotations and ensuring value for money from contractors and suppliers.

- Monitor and manage premises-related budgets, obtaining quotations and ensuring value for money from contractors and suppliers.

- Coordinate the management of school lettings and community use of facilities, ensuring appropriate staffing, security, and compliance arrangements are in place.

- Manage relationships with external contractors and service providers, ensuring works are completed safely, on time, and to the required standard.

- Conduct regular site inspections and risk assessments, identifying and addressing potential hazards or maintenance issues.

- Support emergency planning, business continuity arrangements, and the school's response to incidents affecting the site.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About High Storrs School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1706 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: High Storrs School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/high-storrs-school

High Storrs is a high-performing 11-18 secondary school on the South Western outskirts of Sheffield that has benefitted from a £27m refurbishment of our Grade II listed building. Serving a multi-cultural learning community with high expectations and high aspirations, we are an over-subscribed school.

Minerva Learning Trust is an expanding Sheffield based multi-academy Trust with a vision of providing outstanding education for all the students within our schools. The Trust is passionate that all students should see their time at school as happy and fulfilling with their potential developed to the utmost. High Storrs School joined the Trust in April 2018.

We are seeking staff who believe in young people’s capacity to achieve, develop their own character, personality and sense of considerate citizenship. If you believe that learning is important for everyone in a school and share our passion, then you are exactly who we are looking for in an appointment to expand our staff team.

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