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Head of Operations (Facilities)

Head of Operations (Facilities)

St Dunstan's College

Lewisham

  • Expired
Salary:
£40,801 - £45,900
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September or October 2019
Apply by:
4 July 2019

Job overview

Reporting to the Deputy Bursar (Property and Risk), the Head of Operations (Facilities) will be responsible for the successful running of the Foundation’s day to day facilities operations, including the leadership of the following teams:

House Staff

Responsible for portering as well as setting up facilities, to ensure rooms are appropriately laid out for a variety of events and activities. This team also ensure the buildings are locked and unlocked at appropriate times each day.

Grounds Staff

Responsible for ensuring a high standard of sports pitches, lawns, beds and amenities are maintained at all times. They manage the pitch programme, in communication with the Sports Department, according to the changing seasons during the academic year.  

Cleaning Staff 

Responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness throughout the College.


Additional responsibilities include:

  • H&S and compliance issues relating to the Foundation’s facilities 
  • Regular hazard checking of buildings and facilities, in order to assess and check the delivery of services
  • The preparation and submission of project work plans, as appropriate
  • Providing support to the in-house contract catering team on operational matters
  • Site wide security and safety management
  • Providing appropriate input to the long term maintenance, repair and refurbishment plan, including necessary programming and budget advice.


Application closing date: 1200 on Thursday 04 July

Interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 15 July

Completed application forms and covering letters must be emailed to recruitment@sdmail.org.uk

Early applications are advised as the College reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the application process. 

St Dunstan’s College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced disclosure through the DBS. 

St Dunstan’s Educational Foundation Registered Charity Number 312747


Attached documents

About St Dunstan's College

Welcome to St Dunstan’s

St Dunstan’s College is a large coeducational day school for approximately 1200 children aged 3 – 18, based in the vibrancy and diversity of Lewisham, south-east London. Remaining true to our founding principle that the school should be ‘ahead of the current time’, St Dunstan’s today is known to offer an ambitious and forward-thinking education that trailblazes in the Sector and thinks differently about how young people are educated for an uncertain future.

St Dunstan’s is a thriving educational community. We were awarded Coeducational School of the Year in 2020, Senior School of the Year 2022 and Most Progressive School in London in 2023. In the summer of 2023, St Dunstan’s was one of the 60 best performing independent schools in the UK for our A Level results and was in the top 100 schools in the UK as listed in the Times Parent Power league table. Responding to significant growth in market share, in recent years St Dunstan’s has undertaken radical development of its estate to expand its pupil roll, firstly through the acquisition of the Jubilee Ground, a 15 acre site for community and sporting activity, just minutes from the school, and then through a 30 million pound building programme, including the development of a new STEM Centre, Junior School, Sixth Form Centre and Performing Arts Hub. An ambitious and creative masterplan for the development of our site has now been finalised and will underpin the rolling programme of works planned for the next 10 years, including our ambitions to be a carbon-zero school. St Dunstan’s is actively expanding into a larger educational group, having initially merged with Rosemead Prep School, in Dulwich in 2023, with this presenting many new opportunities for staff and pupils.

Many of the decisions that St Dunstan’s has taken in recent years have been trailblazing for the Sector. We were one of the first schools in the country to introduce a Centre of Wellbeing, to cater for pupil mental and physical health. We introduced a gender-neutral sporting programme, recently culminating in signing a partnership with Chelsea football club. Our Additional curriculum, of our own design, deliberately seeks to educate young people in the life skills they will require for the future – our work undertaken on toxic masculinity, pornography and race have all been widely covered by the national and educational press. Underpinning our entire educational narrative is a commitment to a renaissance education – a broad, balanced and liberal education that helps young people develop the toolkit they will require to thrive in the future.

The diversity of our south-east London is perhaps our biggest asset, allowing us to cultivate an environment that nurtures individuality. As one of the most socio-economically and culturally diverse independent schools in the UK, ours is a school that actively shuns entitlement and arrogance and rather develops well-rounded, grounded young men and women who have the soft skills to thrive in tomorrow’s world.

We attempt to define the St Dunstan’s Difference as follows:

  • Trailblazing a forward-thinking independent education since 1888
  • Promoting high achievement without arrogance
  • Championing individuality, diversity and equality – albam exorna!
  • Developing values through a broad and liberal education
  • Supporting wellbeing as central to success
  • Growing ambitious and imaginative partnerships
  • Providing life-enriching opportunities to our local community
  • Infusing social conscience and ethical thinking

Working for St Dunstan’s

We seek to be the employer of choice in the Sector, with staff wanting to work at St Dunstan’s as a consequence of its clarity of purpose and vision, our unique identity and reputation, and a sincere commitment to staff development, creativity and voice, wellbeing, diversity and equality, and a culture of trust and transparency. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

  • Tuition fee remission and no registration fees
  • Private Health Care Insurance (50% paid by employer) with reduced health club membership
  • Health care cash plan
  • Free lunch and beverages, during term time
  • Free off-road parking
  • Salary Sacrifice Schemes
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Free winter and summer social events
  • Annual flu immunisation
  • Use of College leisure facilities including gym, tennis courts and pool

conditions apply

Our Commitment to Safeguarding Children

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, checks relating to prohibitions, sanctions and restrictions on teaching and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with children’s barred list check. The School will carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of their application.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom they are responsible for or with whom they come into contact with. All staff are required to adhere to and ensure compliance with the School’s safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures at all times and to complete appropriate training.

In the course of carrying out their duties the post-holder becomes aware of any actual or potential risks to the safety or welfare of children in the School, they must report any concerns to the School’s Safeguarding Lead, or in relation to concerns regarding a member of staff, the Head.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Further information and copies of the School’s Code of Practice and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available from the HR team.

St Dunstan’s Trustee Limited (registered number 14407568) on behalf of St Dunstan’s Educational Foundation (registered number 312747.

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