Are you a School Business Manager, experienced premises officer or facilities professional looking to take the next step in your career? We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, experienced professional to join our Central Team as Facilities Manager.
Lumen Learning Trust puts the children's needs at the heart of its provision. We are committed to enabling children become successful lifelong learners and happy, fulfilled adults who can make positive choices about their future. To prepare the Trust for its next stage of development, we are seeking an exceptional individual who shares our passion for and commitment to education and the role that facilities management plays in improving children’s life chances.
The Trust currently consists of six member schools, based across Surrey - in Shepperton, Ashford, Staines-upon-Thames, Addlestone, Walton-on-Thames and Epsom. The post will be based at one of the Trust schools, but will be expected to travel to other sites as required. The successful applicant will require a clean driving licence and their own vehicle.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be organised, self-motivated and resilient. You’ll be the sort of person who embraces change, loves a challenge and enjoys working in a post where no two days are the same. You’ll be an excellent communicator who uses their experience and emotional intelligence to form positive relationships with colleagues and will inspire our site team across the Trust.
As the Facilities Manager, you will collaborate with the Head of Operations and senior staff to develop, implement, and continuously improve the Trust’s strategic estates plan, focusing on creating and maintaining well-kept, safe, secure, compliant and efficient environments. You will be responsible for managing and monitoring delegated budgets, ensuring financial prudence and best value principles.
You’ll be working alongside colleagues who share your passion, are keen to collaborate and will support you to succeed.
Our ideal candidate will:
Have a background in estates management – ideally in schools, public sites or civic buildings – but we are keen to meet motivated individuals who can also bring additional experience to the team. Take responsibility for the delivery of the planned maintenance strategy across all sites – as well as managing the competing demands of compliance with all relevant Health and Safety assessments and monitoring. Have experience of working with contractors. Be able to confidently lead your team to maintain exceptional school support, ensuring that process and procedure is followed in order to ensure the best outcomes. Articulate and advocate the organisations vision and strategic plans to your team to help deliver at a school level. Understand and respect the diversity of others cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check, Social Media check and satisfactory references. Closing date: 31st January 2025, 9am Interviews: 6th February 2025 We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We welcome visits to us. Please see the attached advert for details of how to arrange this. The Job Description and Person Specification fully outline the requirements of this post. Please complete the application form. CVs are not accepted. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. If you are appointed you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. You are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings which are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out), as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended). You are also required to disclose any pending criminal proceedings against you or current police investigations, including those relating to other employment or matters outside work. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from taking up appointment; it will depend on the nature of the offence(s) and their relevance to the post you are applying for. However, should you not declare any of the above and this is subsequently revealed, for example through the DBS check, then this may place your employment in jeopardy. Any information given will be treated in the strictest confidence and with due regard to the ROA and data protection legislation. Lumen Learning Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To achieve this, we will ensure continuous improvement and development of robust Safeguarding processes and procedures that promote a culture of Safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references; it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Please note that under safer recruitment practices Lumen Learning Trust cannot accept CVs or letters in place of completed application forms. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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Have a background in estates management – ideally in schools, public sites or civic buildings – but we are keen to meet motivated individuals who can also bring additional experience to the team. Take responsibility for the delivery of the planned maintenance strategy across all sites – as well as managing the competing demands of compliance with all relevant Health and Safety assessments and monitoring. Have experience of working with contractors. Be able to confidently lead your team to maintain exceptional school support, ensuring that process and procedure is followed in order to ensure the best outcomes. Articulate and advocate the organisations vision and strategic plans to your team to help deliver at a school level. Understand and respect the diversity of others cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check, Social Media check and satisfactory references. Closing date: 31st January 2025, 9am Interviews: 6th February 2025 We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We welcome visits to us. Please see the attached advert for details of how to arrange this. The Job Description and Person Specification fully outline the requirements of this post. Please complete the application form. CVs are not accepted. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. If you are appointed you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. You are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings which are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out), as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended). You are also required to disclose any pending criminal proceedings against you or current police investigations, including those relating to other employment or matters outside work. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from taking up appointment; it will depend on the nature of the offence(s) and their relevance to the post you are applying for. However, should you not declare any of the above and this is subsequently revealed, for example through the DBS check, then this may place your employment in jeopardy. Any information given will be treated in the strictest confidence and with due regard to the ROA and data protection legislation. Lumen Learning Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To achieve this, we will ensure continuous improvement and development of robust Safeguarding processes and procedures that promote a culture of Safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references; it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Please note that under safer recruitment practices Lumen Learning Trust cannot accept CVs or letters in place of completed application forms. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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