Join GLF Schools as our Regional Estates Partner and play a pivotal role in shaping safe, inspiring learning environments across our Trust. This permanent position offers a flexible hybrid working model, with a primary base at our Banstead offices and regular travel to our schools across the Southern and Eastern regions. You’ll lead and manage premises teams across a diverse mix of primary and secondary schools, ensuring health and safety compliance, overseeing maintenance and capital projects, and contributing to the strategic development of our Trust-wide Estates vision. If you're passionate about creating spaces where students and staff thrive, we’d love to hear from you.
Your Opportunity
The successful candidate will oversee premises teams, ensure health and safety compliance, manage maintenance and capital projects, and contribute to the strategic development of our Trust-wide Estates vision. If you're passionate about creating safe, well-maintained learning environments and leading operational excellence, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact across our schools.
What we are looking for
- Health and Safety qualification (e.g. NEBOSH, IOSH or equivalent)
- Fire Safety qualification (desirable)
- Project Management qualification (desirable)
- Minimum 2 years managing Health and Safety compliance in a busy public environment
- Minimum 2 years managing maintenance, building works, capital projects, and contractors
- Proven experience managing and developing teams to meet strategic goals
- Strong understanding of statutory compliance and best practices
- Good knowledge of building construction, services, and systems
- Proficient IT skills, including use of compliance or FM monitoring systems
Please read the full job description and person specification before applying.
Join Our Community
As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 43 academies or in our central team.
- A growing Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 17,000 pupils
- Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness
- 43 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England
- We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity
- Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education
Our Employment Offer
GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish
- Access to our highly competitive pension scheme (LGPS)
- Generous holiday allowance
- Work life and family friendly policies
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Access to a staff benefits portal
- Community and collaboration working model
The Details
Salary: GLF Associate Leadership 1 - £46,957
Location: The Beacon School, Banstead / Hybrid / Visits to schools in South & East regions.
Contract type: Permanent, 36hrs per week - full time.
Start Date: ASAP
Closing date for applications: 12th August 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Safeguarding Statement:
GLF Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
As a Trust, we are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities. GLF Schools recognises and celebrates the diversity of its schools and their communities. There is a shared commitment across the Trust to develop further a culture of respect, where discrimination is not tolerated, and individuals are treated equitably and fairly and feel a sense of belonging. We strive for an inclusive environment where staff, children and students are comfortable to express their own identity, should they wish, in which diversity and inclusion is of mutual benefit for everyone in our schools. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups including those based on ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time ahead of the closing date if there is a good level of response. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application as early as possible.
We also reserve the right to interview shortlisted candidates ahead of the closing date.
Please be advised that references may be requested on receipt of your application. Please state if you wish this to be delayed until shortlisting/interviews have taken place.
