30 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    31 October 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    1 October 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 3 days a week over 39 weeks per year ( term time plus one week)

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 months in the first instance

Full-time equivalent salary

NJC Support staff pay scale 12 – 22. £27,711 - £32,654 fte pro rata, depending on experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

Main purpose

To manage all aspects of the Trust’s academy properties including upkeep, care, maintenance, security, health and safety and facilities management in line with statutory and regulatory requirements. Some aspects of the role are already in existence, the responsibility of the role is to bring these together across the trust and develop some aspects further.

The Trust Site Supervisor will be accountable and responsible to the Trust central management team and will have contact with Head teachers/Heads of Schools and staff within all schools. They will liaise with external organisations, stakeholders, legislative bodies and others.

Duties and responsibilities

General duties

  • To deliver the Buildings and Estates Strategy alongside the CEO and CFO
  • Alongside the CEO and CFO, assist with the development of bids for capital funding opportunities;
  • Alongside the CEO and CFO, develop and implement building projects. Where appropriate act as project manager for authorised schemes, paying particular attention to regulatory requirements, quality, compliance with agreed specifications, timescales, safety, and ensuring that value for money can be evidenced in all awarded contracts
  • Ensure that all estates and buildings management systems, processes and practices are consistent across all of the academies and are synchronised and co-ordinated to achieve maximum efficiencies;
  • Alongside the Central Trust Team, continue to develop a system for recording, prioritising, tracking and reporting building/estate issues at each school ( I Am Compliant)

Policies

  • Responsible for the monitoring and updating of the trusts H&S and buildings policies
  • Reviewing and developing existing and new policies in line with statutory requirements and managing any necessary consultation process;
  • Alongside the CEO and CFO, develop and monitor the trust and each school’s business continuity planning

Security

  • Help to maintain the security of the school premises as a key holder
  • Carry out regular checks of CCTV and alarm systems, locks, fire safety appliances, security gates and perimeter fencing, and ensure any necessary repairs are actioned
  • Advise the headteacher on all matters relating to school security and safety

Management Information and Record Keeping

  • Developing and ensuring implementation and maintaining of easily accessible and auditable business management records for asset maintenance and management, including records of inspections, maintenance requests, complaints, costs and repairs;
  • Ensuring that accurate and detailed floor and site plans are kept and updated regularly and to maintain the property terrier. Health and Safety
  • Ensuring that fire risk assessments and other statutory and non-statutory testing and inspections are completed in a timely manner and by staff/ contractors who are appropriately qualified;
  • Ensuring that all health and safety management systems, processes and practices are consistent across all of the academies and are synchronised and co-ordinated.
  • Co-ordinating and ensuring implementation of the Trust’s responsibilities in relation to maintaining health and safety statutory documentation;
  • Preparing reports for the CEO, CFO, Trust SLT, Trust’s Directors, Local Advisory Bodies and relevant external bodies (e.g. Health & Safety Executive, Ofsted) in all areas relating to the role, as and when required

HR

  • Ensure academy cleaners/premises staff are carrying out duties as set out in I Am Compliant
  • Develop cross school working using cleaners/premises staff skill sets as appropriate
  • Ensure training for cleaners / premises staff is up to date and appropriate

Responsibilities

  • Be committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children and young people
  • Comply with the policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, security, confidentiality and data protection, and equal opportunities, and report all concerns to an appropriate person
  • Take appropriate action to identify, evaluate and minimise any risks to health, safety and security in the school working environment
  • Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
  • Establish constructive relationships and communication with all staff and other agencies/professionals
  • Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others
  • Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
  • Ensure contractors and external visitors comply with security and health and safety while on school premises

Please note that this list of duties is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the school office manager will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Central Trust Team.

What the school offers its staff

Company Pension scheme

Well being support

CPD training program

The opportunity to grow and develop this new role with the potential option of more hours as the role expands.


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 qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Medical Health Screening
Prohibition from teaching
Right to work in the UK
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.

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About Chacombe CEVA Primary Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
82 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Email address
hking@evolvecat.org
Phone number
01295710500

Set on the edge of the Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire border, our small rural Primary School offers a friendly and nurturing place of education for children aged 4-11 years old. We also have a Pre-School setting on site for 2-4 year old's that is managed and run by senior school staff to ensure that children moving from Pre-School to school transition seamlessly and are happy and comfortable.

Arranging a visit to Chacombe CEVA Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hking@evolvecat.org.

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