- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 419 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti House Primary School website
Senior Premises Officer
More than one location, Avanti Schools Trust4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,113 - £28,013 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Are you a skilled facilities professional ready to take on a pivotal role in ensuring a safe, clean, and well-maintained school environment?
As our Senior Premises Officer, you will lead daily operations, ensuring our facilities run smoothly and efficiently.
From overseeing maintenance and managing cleaning staff to handling budgets and supporting capital projects, your leadership will be key to our success.
Working alongside the School Principal and Business Support Manager, you will play an essential role in maintaining compliance, enhancing our facilities, and driving operational excellence.
If you are an organised, proactive leader with facilities management expertise, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact!
What will you do?
- Manage the daily operation and maintenance of the school's facilities, ensuring that they meet the required standards.
- Provide training and support to other staff members, to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out their work.
- Develop and implement maintenance schedules and plans under the guidance of the Area Site Manager, ensuring that repairs and maintenance are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
- Support capital projects, working with the Area Site Manager and other stakeholders to ensure that facilities are upgraded and improved as necessary.
What are we looking for?
- Experience in a facilities management role.
- Experience managing a team, including cleaners and caretakers.
- Flexibility – prepared to work some hours outside normal
- NEBOSH or IOSH Certificate in Environmental management, Legionella Prevention, Fire Marshall, Safeguarding Training, Working at Heights, Risk Assessor, PAT testing.
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
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
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
Further details about the role
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.
How to applyIf you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02081611592
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.
School Details
Avanti House Primary School
Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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