Site Manager

East Ward Community Primary School, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 7QZ

33 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  6 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 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: £19,707.00 Annually (Actual)

Site Manager job summary

Come and join an estates team where you'll be fully supported and trained, provided with a high-quality uniform, and enjoy access to a health and wellbeing package. This is a great opportunity to take pride in maintaining a safe, welcoming environment for our school community.

Responsibilities cover general caretaking duties including opening and closing the premises, basic maintenance and repairs, waste management, emergency call outs and Health and Safety and compliance checks, along with some cleaning duties. Duties will also include ensuring that a high standard of cleanliness and security is maintained to support and safeguard the welfare of all persons using the school premises.

Typical responsibilities are to manage Health and Safety e.g. legionella safety (contractors and some routine flushing work), fire safety including being a fire marshal, visual checks of surfaces, play equipment and signage, checking for lighting and electrical faults and managing COSHH. Preparing the site safely after frost or snow will also be necessary.

Other responsibilities will include opening and closing the school, portaging, cleaning up bodily fluids, managing waste, some simple routine grounds maintenance as well as managing grounds maintenance contractors.

We are looking for a person that can work well on their own initiative and can identify issues themselves and remedy them before needing to be asked. We need a person who can turn their hand to a range of minor repairs and is practically minded but can also keep records and be accountable for tasks completed.

You will be welcomed into a team committed to continually raising standards and upholding the distinctive ethos of this friendly and inclusive school.

Employees of East Ward Primary School have a responsibility for, and must be committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and for ensuring they are protected from harm.

Please see recruitment pack for full details.

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 East Ward Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 476 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: East Ward Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/east-ward-community-primary-school-bury

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