Premises Manager

About us and the role

This is an exceptional opportunity to join the Avanti Hall School’s site team.

Are you practical, can you turn your hand to most things, good at solving problems, able to use your own initiative, have good people skills, have high standards for health and safety and a clean and organised environment?

Are you a can-do person who is reliable, hardworking, patient, well organised, self-motivated, takes pride in their work, and has a sense of humour?

Then we need YOU!

We need an exceptional person as our Premises Manager to join our team at Avanti Hall School who will support ensuring the site and premises are safe, secure and well organised so that our children have the very best learning environment.

Avanti Hall is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through the Avanti Way.

The Avanti Hall grounds on the outskirts of Exeter, offer a site of inspiring natural beauty. Our main building, Thomas Hall, was built in the 1600s, with established woodland surrounding the main campus area. The building was part of Exeter University’s Duryard Halls of Residence for nearly 100 years before becoming a school.

The staff team at Avanti Hall School are passionate about our school and we are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students. This is a unique opportunity to help develop a new and innovative school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff.

• Educational excellence
• Character formation
• Spiritual insight

As a genuine all-through school, we are in the position to make a long term, lasting and positive impact on our students’ lives. The behaviour of learners in our schools is excellent and our parents, carers and students are highly aspirational.

Why should you apply

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

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.

What will you do?

• To be responsible for the general maintenance, cleanliness and security of the school and to maintain the premises (both internally and externally) in a clean, safe, sound and secure condition for staff, pupils, parents and community users.
• To be the main key holder and to be responsible for the maintenance of keys and the electronic alarm system and be the first respondent to emergency call outs. This includes the routine and non-routine opening and closing of the school and the setting of alarms; ensuring that the school is locked and secure, with fire doors and all windows closed at the end of the school day and after any school functions, lettings or community use
• Supervising Contractors as appropriate, regarding access to the site, monitor and log the progress of the work and ensuring that work is carried out to the required standard, as appropriate.
• To be responsible for a regular schedule of inspections throughout the buildings, and action plans for modifications and improvements. Alerting the head teacher to any work that needs to be undertaken or any issues where health and safety is at risk. This includes lighting, ventilation, time keeping, fire-fighting equipment and heating systems.
• To prioritise and undertake the programme of minor works at the school, taking into account urgent need and health and safety issues e.g. locks, windows, gutters and paintwork.

For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description

What are we looking for?

• Ability to organise one’s own work, to prioritise tasks and keep to deadlines
• The know-how to assess and carry out minor repairs and maintenance independently and commission experts where required
• Relevant certification of practical skills and knowledge
• Ability to apply basic ICT skills to the needs of the job
• Ability to work independently and lead
• Considerable, demonstrable experience of high quality maintenance, site/facilities management and health and safety

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Services Limited 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.