Trust Director of Health & Safety Compliance, Maintenance and Cleaning
| Posting date: | 24 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | Pocklington, Not recorded, YO42 2LL |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | cb4c3951-4338-406a-b85f-8cb9ac8832e1 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Proven experience in facilities, estates, or compliance management—ideally within an education or public sector setting.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety legislation, safeguarding, and risk management.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to drive improvement across multiple sites.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to high standards and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel across the region and work flexibly to meet the needs of the Trust.
What the school offers its staff
• A key leadership role in a growing and ambitious Trust.
• The opportunity to shape safe, inspiring environments for of children and staff.
• A supportive, collaborative central team.
Further details about the role
As our Trust Director of HSC, Maintenance & Cleaning, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our schools are safe, compliant, and welcoming spaces. You’ll lead on health and safety, site maintenance, cleaning standards, and procurement—driving excellence across all Trust premises.
Key Responsibilities
• Health & Safety Compliance: Ensure all sites meet statutory requirements and safeguarding standards, including oversight of risk assessments, audits, and training.
• Maintenance & Refurbishment: Lead a five-year rolling programme of site improvements, from internal fittings to external landscaping.
• Cleaning Standards: Establish and monitor high standards of cleanliness across all schools, ensuring environments are healthy and respectful.
• Procurement: Drive value and efficiency through strategic procurement of resources, equipment, and facilities.
• Leadership: Build and manage a centralised Trust site team, redefining roles and ensuring effective training, supervision, and performance management.
• Technology & Project Management: Use digital tools to manage projects, track progress, and communicate effectively across the Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
• Proven experience in facilities, estates, or compliance management—ideally within an education or public sector setting.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety legislation, safeguarding, and risk management.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to drive improvement across multiple sites.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to high standards and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel across the region and work flexibly to meet the needs of the Trust.
What the school offers its staff
• A key leadership role in a growing and ambitious Trust.
• The opportunity to shape safe, inspiring environments for of children and staff.
• A supportive, collaborative central team.
Further details about the role
As our Trust Director of HSC, Maintenance & Cleaning, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our schools are safe, compliant, and welcoming spaces. You’ll lead on health and safety, site maintenance, cleaning standards, and procurement—driving excellence across all Trust premises.
Key Responsibilities
• Health & Safety Compliance: Ensure all sites meet statutory requirements and safeguarding standards, including oversight of risk assessments, audits, and training.
• Maintenance & Refurbishment: Lead a five-year rolling programme of site improvements, from internal fittings to external landscaping.
• Cleaning Standards: Establish and monitor high standards of cleanliness across all schools, ensuring environments are healthy and respectful.
• Procurement: Drive value and efficiency through strategic procurement of resources, equipment, and facilities.
• Leadership: Build and manage a centralised Trust site team, redefining roles and ensuring effective training, supervision, and performance management.
• Technology & Project Management: Use digital tools to manage projects, track progress, and communicate effectively across the Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.