Premises Manager

36 hours x 52 weeks

Swakeleys School for Girls is an oversubscribed girls’ school in Hillingdon where our focus is to ensure that students enjoy school, achieve well, aspire to fulfilling futures and feel happy and successful. 

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the school is maintained to a high standard and kept safe and compliant. The post holder will manage a small team of Premises Supervisors and Assistants, delegating work and ensuring a responsive and pro-active approach to day-to-day troubleshooting, this includes developing a log to monitor and prioritise staff requests. Additionally, the post holder will be responsible for managing subcontractors in and around the school, securing best value solutions and ensuring that budgets are managed and controlled.  

Full details including a job description and application form are available from the school website www.swakeleys.hillingdon.sch.uk

Applicants should complete an application form and email to: applications@swakeleys.org.uk

Closing date – Noon, Friday 16 August 2024.

Interviews week commencing – Monday 19 August 2024.

Equal Opportunities and Safer Recruitment

Swakeleys School for Girls is an inclusive employer. We welcome applications from suitable candidates no matter their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Please note that Swakeleys School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy successful references, an enhanced police/Security Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and right to work in the UK prior to starting employment with the School.

As part of our recruitment process we will also carry out an online search for information that is publicly available online. This will include social media accounts you may hold. This will only be carried out on shortlisted candidates and before the interview. This processing of data will be conducted under the legal basis of Article 6(e) public task in line with the guidance laid out in paragraph 221 of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2023. Any data collected during this search will be retained in line with our retention schedule which is available on request.

If you want to work in a happy, purposeful school with a commitment to helping every student go on to university or meaningful employment, then we would welcome your application.