Senior Premises Officer

About us and the role

Are you a skilled facilities professional ready to take on a pivotal role in ensuring a safe, clean, and well-maintained school environment?

Join our team as a Senior Premises Officer and lead the daily operations and management of our facilities.

In this exciting role, you’ll oversee maintenance, supervise cleaning staff and contractors, manage budgets, and support capital projects.

Working closely with the School Principal and Business Support Manager, you’ll play a key role in maintaining compliance, enhancing our facilities, and ensuring the school’s operational excellence.

If you’re an organised and proactive leader with expertise in facilities management, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact!

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England.

All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.

What will you do?

• Manage the daily operation and maintenance of the school's facilities, ensuring that they meet the required standards.
• Provide training and support to other staff members, to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out their work.
• Develop and implement maintenance schedules and plans under the guidance of the Area Site Manager, ensuring that repairs and maintenance are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Support capital projects, working with the Area Site Manager and other stakeholders to ensure that facilities are upgraded and improved as necessary.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

What are we looking for?

• Experience in a facilities management role.
• Experience managing a team, including cleaners and caretakers.
• Flexibility – prepared to work some hours outside normal
• NEBOSH or IOSH Certificate in Environmental management, Legionella Prevention, Fire Marshall, Safeguarding Training, Working at Heights, Risk Assessor, PAT testing.
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role..

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.