Facilities Manager

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Job Title:  Facilities Manager
Location:  Kestrel House School, Crouch End, London N8 9EA
Hours:  40 per week | Monday to Friday
Salary:  Up to £45,000.00 per annum (depending on experience, not pro rata)
Contract:  Permanent
Start:  May 2026

UK applicants only – no sponsorship available

About the Role

The Facilities Manager plays a key role in supporting the growth and continued development of Kestrel House School. Reporting to the senior leadership team, you will be accountable for delivering high‑quality, efficient, and collaborative facilities support services across both Kestrel House School sites.

You will hold line management responsibility for the effective delivery of all facilities operations, including reactive and planned maintenance, compliance, catering, cleaning, and site safety. The postholder will ensure that the school environment is safe, secure, well maintained, and fully compliant with all relevant legislation, enabling staff and pupils to thrive.

As the lead point of contact for facilities management, you will ensure works are completed in a timely and cost‑effective manner, manage contractors and service providers, and ensure appropriate resources are in place to support the School Improvement Plan. You will also support the senior management team in developing and embedding best practice processes and policies across health, safety, and environmental compliance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM)

• Overseeing health & safety, site compliance, and RIDDOR reporting

• Managing contractors, contracts, and approved supplier registers

• Leading catering and cleaning services

• Ensuring site security, asset and vehicle management

• Line managing and developing the facilities team

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous experience in Facilities Management, with a relevant professional qualification or membership (e.g. BIFM/IWFM) desirable

• Strong experience in health & safety and risk management, ideally IOSH qualified, including contractor management, fire safety, COSHH, Legionella, and asbestos compliance

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with staff, contractors, statutory bodies, and the local community

• Good working knowledge of current building regulations

• Confident IT user with experience of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and online facilities management systems or asset registers

• GCSE English and Maths or equivalent qualification

About Us

At Kestrel House School, we do more than teach—we inspire. We’re seeking a passionate, innovative, and compassionate SEN Teacher to join our team and make a lasting difference.

You’ll teach pupils with autism, complex needs, and learning difficulties, creating engaging, personalised lessons that build independence, resilience, and a love of learning.

You’ll be supported to innovate and bring ideas to life as part of a multidisciplinary team, working with specialists, therapists, and families to deliver a holistic education where wellbeing, communication, and social development are as important as academic progress.

For over 19 years, Options Autism has provided specialist care and education for children, young people, and adults with autism, complex needs, and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are pioneering innovative, evidence-based approaches that deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes for everyone in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2025 Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the sixth year running.

Why Join Us?

We place pupils and vulnerable young adults at the heart of everything we do, so every day brings the satisfaction of making a real difference. We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

• Life Assurance

• Pension scheme with options to increase contributions

• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – mental health support and physical health checks

• Flexible Benefits Platform (Vista), including:

  • Health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

  • Hundreds of UK and international discounts

  • Cycle to Work Scheme & Electric Car Purchase Scheme

  • Critical illness cover

  • Family Growth Support, including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and paid fertility treatment support

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

Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.

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