Facilities & Operation Manager

Location

Wombourne, Staffordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Invictus Education Trust are recruiting for a Facilities & Operation Manager to be initially deployed at Wombourne High School .

Full time, 37 hours per week, and all year round

Grade 11 SCP 36 – SCP 39 £44,428 – £47,420

We are a multi-academy trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands

We are seeking to recruit a highly-skilled, dedicated and experienced Facilities & Operations Manager to join our Operations Team.

You will have:

• Direct line management responsibility for school support staff including management of staff, recruitment, training, appraisal and allocation of duties.
• Management responsibility for:
• Operational processes and procedures
• Health & Safety
• Grounds maintenance/premises management, security and cleanliness of premises
• Management of in house/External School Catering provision of school meals
• Management of Lettings

You will need:

• Solid management experience
• Professional, proactive and solution focused in your approach
• Experience in managing premises and Health & Safety
• Excellent skills in strategic planning, management of staff, premises and school resources
• Strong persuasive and negotiating skills and a commercial flair for business
• Committed to the values and vision of the Trust

See for full details of this role.

In return we can offer a supportive and nurturing working environment and a commitment to professional development.

Closing date: Wednesday 20th March 2024, 9am

Shortlisting: Wednesday 20th March 2024

Interviews due to take place: Friday 22nd March 2024

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023, as a part of our recruitment process we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview.

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2023 – KCSIE 2023

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

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