Location
Cheshire West & Chester, Cheshire | United Kingdom
Job description
The Grange School occupies two separate sites for its Senior and Junior Schools located a five minute walk from each other. The facilities offered across the School are outstanding and continue to be developed by an ambitious estates plan, as recently demonstrated by the completion of our 6m Sports Centre in 2019. Key facilities include a 300 seat Theatre, a state of the art Sixth Form Centre, first class Science, ICT and D&T facilities across both sites.
The Opportunity
The post of Head of Grounds is a key post to support the Head of Estates in ensuring that the facilities continue to thrive and develop to meet the aspirations of The Grange School students and our community.
Working hours are 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday across the full year with 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will be expected to fulfil the following duties:
- Caring for and maintaining the sports pitches across 3 sites, including liaising with the Director of Sport and relevant teachers as to ensure that, wherever possible, the surfaces are available to meet the requirements of the daily curriculum and fixtures programme. These include all-weather tennis courts and sports pitches.
- Maintaining and managing the hard landscape, gardens areas on 4 sites to create an outstanding first impression for visitors and maintaining excellent facilities for students and staff.
- Management and oversight of the site cleaning team and schedules, ensuring facilities are maintained to a high standard on a day-to-day basis and that detailed / deep cleaning schedules are undertaken in holiday periods.
- Reporting any issues relating to the grounds to the Head of Estates
- Line managing the grounds team and cleaning supervisor and dealing with holiday, sickness, and day to day tasks.
- Ensuring that all staff are properly trained and undertaking annual performance reviews with line reports.
- Preparing departmental risk assessments, COSHH documents and machinery maintenance records.
- Leading on whether facilities are safe and fit for play, particularly daily curriculum usage and competitive fixtures scheduled to take place outdoors on grass, artificial or hard-court surfaces.
- Negotiating, purchasing and managing the safe storage of all consumable materials.
- Being responsible for the tendering and management of contractors undertaking grounds services - including specifying work and ensuring compliance with health and safety and other statutory requirements.
- Being responsible for the undertaking of a tree survey, the ongoing care of trees and their maintenance as well as external fences and bushes that form site boundaries.
- Maintaining pathways and access points.
- Attending weekly coordination meetings with the Director of Sport and other members of the Sports Team.
- Co-ordinating the implementation of snow & ice clearance of pathways and roads as required in line with existing risk assessments and procedures.
- Maintain awareness of industry developments and propose how these will impact on the school.
On Site Duties
- Ensuring that a positive impression of the School is given to pupils, parents, visitors and colleagues at all times.
- Supporting the work of the Estates department, and delivering its strategic outcomes.
Other Duties
- Playing a full part in the life of the school community, supporting its mission, ethos and policies.
- Setting high personal standards of dress and appearance, attendance/punctuality and discipline/behaviour, upholding the staff code of conduct at all times.
- Actively engaging in safeguarding practice and health and safety awareness around the school sites.
- Committing to personal professional development, including active engagement in staff training and the performance review process.
- Complying with relevant school policies and procedures at all times.
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