Head of Estates and Facilities

South West Community Chaplaincy; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days + 8 bank holidays

Generous pension scheme (min. 4%)

Sick pay and family leave provisions

Discount platform for shopping, travel

Death in service benefit (up to 6x)

Blue Light Card eligibility

Real living wage employer

Refer a friend scheme

Training and development opportunities

Long service awards

Wellbeing initiatives including Mental

Job summary

Together Trust in Stockport (Cheadle area) offers a hybrid working environment for an experienced Head of Estates and Facilities to lead a multi-site portfolio. You will drive strategic estates planning, capital projects and service delivery to ensure safe, welcoming environments across schools, residential homes and offices.

The role reports to the Commercial Director and commands a salary of £65,907 per year.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading estates and facilities services across multiple locations.
• Experience managing capital projects, maintenance programmes, compliance and service contracts.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with budget management and efficiency improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of health and safety legislation, building compliance and facilities management best practice.
• Experience leading diverse teams and outsourced service providers.
• A relevant degree qualification and a valid UK driving licence.
• Experience in education, care, health or charitable organisations and professional qualifications in facilities management, project management or health and safety is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing a high-performing Estates and Facilities team.
• Delivering capital investment and estates programmes.
• Managing statutory compliance, health and safety governance, and property-related risk.
• Overseeing planned and reactive maintenance across multiple sites.
• Driving estate optimisation, space planning and future growth strategies.
• Leading procurement and management of facilities and maintenance contracts.
• Championing environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives.
• Overseeing cleaning, catering, transport, helpdesk and front-of-house services.
• Ensuring robust business continuity and incident response arrangements.

Skills

Estates leadership

Facilities management

Budget management

Health & safety

Stakeholder management

Project management

Sustainability

Education

Degree qualification

Job description

Help Shape the Future of Our Environments

At the Together Trust, we're entering an exciting period of growth, transformation and innovation. As we continue to support children, young people, adults and families with complex needs, we're looking for an experienced and strategic Head of Estates and Facilities to lead the development of safe, sustainable and high-performing environments across our diverse portfolio of sites.

This is a unique opportunity to join a values-driven organisation and make a tangible impact on the places where life-changing support is delivered every day.

Location : Together Trust Centre, Cheadle, Stockport (Hybrid Working Available)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract : Permanent

Salary: £65,907.00 (Grade 7)

Reporting to: Commercial Director

About the Role

Reporting to the Commercial Director, you'll lead the strategic and operational delivery of estates and facilities services across a varied property portfolio, including schools, residential homes, therapeutic services, day provision settings and corporate offices.

You'll oversee capital projects, compliance, maintenance, health and safety, sustainability initiatives and support services, ensuring our environments are safe, welcoming and fit for the future. Leading a multidisciplinary team, you'll play a key role in supporting organisational growth while delivering exceptional service and value for money.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Leading and developing a high-performing Estates and Facilities team.
• Delivering the Trust's capital investment and estates programmes.
• Managing statutory compliance, health and safety governance, and property-related risk.
• Overseeing planned and reactive maintenance across multiple sites.
• Driving estate optimisation, space planning and future growth strategies.
• Leading procurement and management of facilities and maintenance contracts.
• Championing environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives.
• Overseeing cleaning, catering, transport, helpdesk and front-of-house services.
• Ensuring robust business continuity, emergency planning and incident response arrangements.

About You

We're looking for a strategic leader with a strong track record in estates and facilities management within a complex, multi-site environment.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience leading estates and facilities services across multiple locations.
• Experience managing capital projects, maintenance programmes, compliance and service contracts.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience managing budgets and driving efficiencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of health and safety legislation, building compliance and facilities management best practice.
• Experience leading diverse teams and outsourced service providers.
• A relevant degree qualification and a valid UK driving licence.

Ideally, you’ll also have experience within education, care, health or charitable organisations and hold relevant professional memberships or qualifications in facilities management, project management or health and safety.

Why Join Us?

At the Together Trust, you’ll be part of an organisation that genuinely changes lives. We combine professional excellence with compassion, innovation and a commitment to creating inclusive environments where people can thrive.

In return, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Shape and influence a transformational estates strategy.
• Lead meaningful projects that directly support vulnerable children, young people and adults.
• Work within a collaborative and supportive leadership team.
• Champion sustainability and innovation across our estate.
• Develop your career within a respected and values-led charity.

Benefits

• Annual leave – 27 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme – a minimum company pension contribution of 4%.
• Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform – offering discounts on high street shopping, travel and insurance.
• Generous death in service benefit – up to 6 times basic salary.
• Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme – be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards – vouchers and extra holiday.
• Promotion of wellbeing across the organisation, including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and a free weekly yoga session, in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in your household.
• Inclusive networks for colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability & Neurodiversity Action Group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).

Our Commitment to Inclusion

The Together Trust is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We positively encourage applications from people with lived experience and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process where required.

Ready to lead the future of our estate and create environments where people can thrive? We'd love to hear from you.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy.