Site Lead
Elstow School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9GP7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
asap
Closing date
7 January 2026 at 7am
Date listed
10 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
- £30,334.00 - £36,672.00 Annually (Actual) AS 15-25 £30,334-£36,672 dependent on experience
Site Lead job summary
Site Lead
Elstow School is seeking a proactive and hands-on Site Lead to join our dedicated Site Team. The ideal candidate for this physically demanding job will be an individual with good handy-person skills and eagerness to carry out the work in an efficient manner. The Site Lead will oversee a small team and carry out general repairs and maintenance, liaise with contractors and suppliers and ensure our School maintains a high level of health and safety.
At our School, you will find supportive and encouraging colleagues within school leadership and throughout the school. It is incredibly important to us here at Elstow School all our staff feel valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. If you want to grow and develop in a varied and interesting role, come and join us.
Key Duties
Managing the school site team
Security of premises
Portering
Grounds maintenance
Heating and lighting
Driving and vehicle maintenance
Health & Safety & compliance management
Cleaning
Support and oversight of lettings with the Trust Estates Manager
Contract management
Building maintenance
Responsible first key holder for the site and available for call outs
The successful candidate will have
Experience of site duties and responsibilities
Strong IT skills
Current valid full driving license (with D1/D1 extenison - preferable)
Excellent communication skills
Ability to problem solve and use own initiative
Basic handy-person skills, able to carry out minor repairs including: some simple plumbing and joinery work
Substantial knowledge of Health and Safety, including COSHH
An understanding of safeguarding and willingness to undertake training relevant to the role
Job Specifics
Start date: asap
Salary: AS 15-25 £30,334-£36,672 dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent, Full Time,(52 wks, 25 days holiday, plus 3 days holiday between Christmas & New Year)
Working Pattern: 37 hrs per wk, Monday-Thursday 6:30am-2:30pm, Friday 6:30am-2pm (30 min lunch break)
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Elstow School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Elstow School website
In 2017, Elstow School was proud to join Bedford Free School and become part of an exceptional offer to families in Bedford.
Elstow School offers a truly enriched and academic curriculum. We really do believe that our pupils can go on to achieve extraordinary things.
We take our values of We Care, We Share, We do our best, very seriously. They underpin our routines, our curriculum, and what we strive to develop in our pupils.
We work hard on our culture in which the highest expectations and aspirations surround all of our pupils, delivering on our families’ demand for excellent educational opportunities.
We deliver a knowledge-based curriculum to enable our children to go on to excel at secondary school and beyond. We make sure that the latest research informed practice guides our teaching development and this in turn means that the lessons are coherent.
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