Trust Estates Lead

Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust, Liverpool, L1 7BY

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Standard Working Pattern - 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £45,718 - £49,764
• Pay scale: NJC 36 - 40

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is a challenging strategic role within the Trust, reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer. The Trust Estates Lead will be responsible for leading the implementation of estates strategies for the schools within our Trust and working closely with senior leaders and site management teams at each school to ensure all aspects of each school site, including upkeep, care, maintenance, security, health and safety and facilities management, are in line with statutory and regulatory requirements.

This role is key to ensuring that our schools provide a safe, accessible and welcoming environment in which pupils and staff can deliver their best. You will have the opportunity to work closely with key stakeholders within our schools and within the Central Trust Team.

You will contribute to upholding the Trust’s vision, values and ethos and treat everyone within the Trust with respect, offering high levels of support and customer service.

What the school offers its staff

• Excellent Terms and Conditions – We are committed to maintaining (or bettering) national terms and conditions.
• Hybrid Working – Central Team staff are able to work flexibly where possible within the requirements of the role.
• Continuing Professional Development – All support staff can apply for fully-funded apprenticeships up to degree level.
• Leadership Pathways – We have a wealth of development opportunities that are open to colleagues and we are exceptionally proud of our very high levels of internal promotion.
• Annual Trust Wide Conference – For all colleagues to celebrate and learn together.
• Collaboration – Regular networking opportunities across our networks for different staff groups.
• Trust Wellbeing Group – Exploring and implementing new and innovative initiatives to support our colleagues to be happy and healthy in work.

Flexible working opportunities

Flexible Working can be considered

Commitment to safeguarding

Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks including satisfactory references, online checks, Enhanced DBS, and Barred List checks. This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@ldst.org.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Trust Estates Lead Job Pack.docx - 145 KB (opens in new tab)

About Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust website
• Email address: recruitment@ldst.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/liverpool-diocesan-schools-trust

The Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust was established in 2017 by the Diocese of Liverpool. We now have 18 schools in our family – 17 primary and one secondary school - with ambitions for further growth across both sectors.

Built upon our distinctly Christian values, we have a strong track record of school improvement, as evidenced in recent OFSTED and SIAMs inspections and our outcomes at primary are consistently above national averages. This has been achieved through a strong culture of collaboration, enabling best practice to be shared and talented staff to thrive; an unshakeable expectation for every child to achieve; and a commitment to continuing to develop ourselves and our practices.
As a Diocesan Trust, our Christian values are intrinsically linked to our commitment to provide an innovative, high quality education, so that children and learners make excellent progress and fulfil their academic potential.

We do this through:
- Being a family of schools that is committed to well-being and supporting each other, so that all children, learners and staff across our Trust, flourish.
- Connecting with each other to share practice and provide an excellent education that is built on distinctly Christian values.
- A commitment to inclusion, ensuring that all learners thrive through an education that teaches wisdom, instils hope, nurtures community, and embeds dignity and respect.
- Strong bonds of collaboration, innovative approaches to education and a shared purpose amongst schools, families, and communities.

What does our Trust care about and how do the values match up?

LDST is a distinctly Christian Trust. We want our children to receive an excellent education built on distinctly Christian values. We are respectful and responsive to the individual needs of our schools, whilst determined to make a difference to learners across all schools.

We have four core values:
Our commitment to ‘collaboration’ ensures that we connect and work in partnership for the benefit of learners and staff across our Trust. Staff across our schools work as a family carrying out research, sharing practice, developing resources, and increasing expertise. Leaders at all levels, including Headteachers and Chairs of Governors, have regular networks and forum meetings to discuss, solve problems and make collective decisions for the good of all schools.
With such strong bonds of collaboration, we can support our schools to enhance the opportunities and outcomes for their pupils and staff by:

• Developing and sharing best practice in education, teaching, learning, curriculum, and outcomes
• Co-ordinating staff recruitment, professional training, and career development to create a skilled, motivated, expert workforce
• Working collaboratively to increase operational efficiency and making optimum use of available resources
Our commitment to ‘local’ means that our schools are local schools, led by local leaders and governors, serving local communities. Our central team supports and empowers our leaders to provide the highest quality of education.

Our commitment to ‘inclusion’ ensures that we are a Trust for those of all faiths and none. We are dedicated to ensuring that all learners regardless of faith, background and disability can achieve their full potential.
Our commitment to ‘difference’ ensures that we respect the uniqueness of each of our schools and celebrate the many differences of the whole LDST community. Schools are supported to maintain their own distinctiveness and to develop a curriculum that is unique to them.

Across LDST we learn, love, and achieve together with Jesus in all that we do, supporting each other, working together, and sharing a vision for an excellent education.

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