Senior Premises Officer
Avanti Schools Trust, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further details
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 4, £27,980 - £30,309 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Avanti House Secondary School is seeking a dedicated and experienced Senior Premises Officer to lead the operational management of our school facilities.
This is a pivotal role, ensuring that our school environment is safe, well-maintained, and welcoming for students, staff, and visitors.
The successful candidate will take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school site, including overseeing cleaning staff and contracts, managing maintenance schedules, supporting capital projects, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
You will also be responsible for opening and closing the school, ordering necessary consumables, and working closely with the School Principal and Business Support Manager to meet the operational needs of the school.
This position is ideal for someone with strong facilities management experience, excellent organizational and communication skills, and the ability to lead and support a team.
You will play a key role in maintaining high standards across the school while contributing positively to our thriving school community.
If you are proactive, reliable, and enjoy taking responsibility for creating and maintaining excellent facilities in a fast-paced educational setting, we would love to hear from you.
What will you do?
- Oversee the day-to-day operation, maintenance and security of the school site, ensuring facilities are safe, clean and compliant with health and safety requirements.
- Line manage caretaking and cleaning staff and contractors, including training, supervision, quality assurance and support with lettings.
- Plan and deliver effective maintenance schedules, minor works and improvements, supporting capital projects in collaboration with the Area Site Manager.
- Manage facilities-related resources, including ordering consumables, supporting budget control and ensuring value for money.
- Work closely with the Principal and Business Support Manager to meet the operational needs of the school.
What are we looking for?
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience managing a team, including cleaners and caretakers.
- Strong knowledge of health and safety regulations and other relevant legislation.
- A proactive and positive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
- Free staff lunch and on-site parking
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
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About Avanti Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
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