Trust Director of Health & Safety Compliance, Maintenance and Cleaning

Wonder Learning Partnership, Pocklington, YO42 2LL

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term time only plus 15 days.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Scale point 40 £49,764 (which will be pro-rata'd for term time working)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Proven experience in facilities, estates, or compliance management—ideally within an education or public sector setting.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety legislation, safeguarding, and risk management.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to drive improvement across multiple sites.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to high standards and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel across the region and work flexibly to meet the needs of the Trust.

What the school offers its staff

• A key leadership role in a growing and ambitious Trust.
• The opportunity to shape safe, inspiring environments for of children and staff.
• A supportive, collaborative central team.

Further details about the role

As our Trust Director of HSC, Maintenance & Cleaning, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our schools are safe, compliant, and welcoming spaces. You’ll lead on health and safety, site maintenance, cleaning standards, and procurement—driving excellence across all Trust premises.

Key Responsibilities

• Health & Safety Compliance: Ensure all sites meet statutory requirements and safeguarding standards, including oversight of risk assessments, audits, and training.

• Maintenance & Refurbishment: Lead a five-year rolling programme of site improvements, from internal fittings to external landscaping.
• Cleaning Standards: Establish and monitor high standards of cleanliness across all schools, ensuring environments are healthy and respectful.
• Procurement: Drive value and efficiency through strategic procurement of resources, equipment, and facilities.
• Leadership: Build and manage a centralised Trust site team, redefining roles and ensuring effective training, supervision, and performance management.
• Technology & Project Management: Use digital tools to manage projects, track progress, and communicate effectively across the Trust.

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

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Trust Director of HSC, Maintenance and Cleaning JD June 25.pdf - 285 KB (opens in new tab)

About Wonder Learning Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: recruitment@wlp.education
• Phone number: 01759 302395
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wolds-learning-partnership

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