Head of Estates
The Grange School
Cheshire West and Chester
- £42,000 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 October 2021
Job overview
The Grange School in Hartford is seeking to recruit a Head of Estates.
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 post of Head of Estates is a key post to support the Director of Finance & Operations (DFO) in ensuring that the facilities continue to thrive and develop to meet the aspirations of The Grange School students and our community.
The Opportunity
Providing strategic, operational and technical advice to the Director of Finance & Operations on the development of the School estate and facilities, and of the supporting strategies for maintenance, refurbishment and construction of new facilities.
Ensuring the security, cleanliness, monitoring contracts/contractors, routine maintenance and refurbishment meets expectations and legislation.
Responsibility for effectively prioritising building maintenance tasks in line with budget.
The information below relates to both Junior and Senior school settings. This position represents a senior role within the school support staff structure.
Please see the applicant information pack for full details of the Head of Estates responsibilities:
- General
- Project Management
- Budget Responsibilities
- Line Management
- Contract Management
- Fire Safety
- Supplies & Utilities
- Maintenance & Refurbishment
- Security
- Waste
- Health & Safety
- Administration
- Grounds Maintenance
- Cleaning
- Community Liaison
Attached documents
About The Grange School
The Grange School has been one of the great success stories of independent education over the past forty years. The school was founded in 1933 as a Kindergarten and Preparatory School. In 1977, the Governors took the major step of developing secondary education and since 1978 the school has grown steadily and developed an outstanding academic reputation. Today, The Grange has a total enrolment of 1223 students with 429 in the Junior School (4-11 years) and 794 in the Senior School. It is consistently one of the best performing schools in Cheshire and undoubtedly among the very best independent co-educational day schools in the country.
Our academic results speak for themselves; we are consistently one of the highest ranking co-educational independent schools in the country. In 2023, 22% of GCSE entries were awarded grade 9. At A Level (in 2023), 21% of entries were awarded an A* grade. Thanks to these excellent results, the majority of our leavers (approximately 75%) go on to join their first-choice university.
More importantly we are a very happy school. The relationship between staff and students is exceptional; although very busy and, at times, pressurised, it is a pleasure to work and study in such a friendly environment. Expectations of teachers and pupils are high, but this serves both to stimulate achievement and provide reward.
We understand our chief purpose to be to help produce young people who truly flourish and find fulfilment as adults. We try to do this by helping them to identify and develop their unique combination of strengths, talents and passions, and to challenge them to find a purpose for their lives which such attributes can serve.
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