facilities manager

facilities manager Blackpool, England

Highfurlong School
Full Time Blackpool, England 27852 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Education - School

School Support Staff

Highfurlong School

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 30 per week, full year

Salary: NJC Grade F SCP 19 - 24 £27,852 - £31,099 pro rata per annum

Closing Date: 4th September 2023 at 12 Noon

Proposed Interview Date: 12th September 2023

We are seeking an experienced Facilities Manager to play a key role co-managing the Highfurlong School premises and site team, working alongside the current manager. A proven track record in a similar position is essential, together with a sound knowledge of estate operations, building maintenance and project management, health and safety and building regulations. An understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements is also essential.

The successful candidate will also support the school with the opening of a brand new £5.5million purpose built building in September 2024. (click here for more information) With 2 separate buildings and over 100 pupils with special educational needs and staff using the site, the Facilities Manager role is fast paced with an ever-changing priority list. The successful candidate will need to be an agile thinker, a strong people manager and well organised to succeed in the role.

Highfurlong School is a four times Outstanding special school in Blackpool, providing education for pupils aged 2-19 years with a wide range of special educational needs. Our state of the art facilities provide education to nursery, primary, secondary and post 16 children and young people.

As the UK’s Happiest School of the Year 2019 and winner of National School of the Year 2021, Highfurlong School is looking for enthusiastic, caring and dedicated people to join our Highfurlong team.

The successful candidate will:
  • support the ethos, vision and values of our happy school
  • Have sound knowledge of estates management and statutory compliance
  • be able to take an operational lead in health and safety
  • have a positive outlook and be keen to contribute to the success of our school
  • be an excellent role model to children and peers alike modelling best practice and a positive attitude and work ethic at all times
  • Successful experience of supervising site teams
  • ideally have a keen knowledge and understanding of heating, cooling, lighting and security systems in school buildings
  • willing to undertake training on hydrotherapy pool plant operations
We can offer:
  • opportunity to join our amazing award winning dedicated and friendly team
  • a warm and welcoming school community
  • a strong commitment to continuing professional development, as an accredited CPD training investor provider, with regular training opportunities

Closing date for applications is Monday 4th September, 12.00pm. Invitations to interview will be by email. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date, you can assume that, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.

To download an application form, please click here. Completed applications should be emailed to [email protected]

The school is strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. As a part of our recruitment process, we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the school and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover
anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during the interview. We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All necessary safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertaken can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2022 – KCSIE 2022.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


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permanent

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application deadline
12 00 pm
4th Sep 2023

facilities manager
Highfurlong School

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