Multi-Site Maintenance Supervisor/Caretaker

Teaching Vacancies; St. Austell; Presencial; GBP 26.000 - 40.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Descripción de la vacante

Wave Academy Trust is seeking a skilled Multi-Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker to service Glendinning and Torlands Academies. You will manage planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring buildings remain safe, compliant and in optimal condition to support educational activities.

You will bring practical skills across carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, drainage, lock fixing and decorating, with a strong focus on Health & Safety and COSHH.

Formación

• Experience in hands-on maintenance across a range of trades.
• Able to work to Health & Safety and COSHH guidelines.
• Comfortable supervising contractors and keeping records.

Responsabilidades

• Organise and carry out planned and reactive maintenance across academies.
• Keep buildings safe, compliant and in good working order.
• Perform routine checks and essential repairs as needed.
• Support the Estates Team and engage with staff and visitors.

Conocimientos

Maintenance

Carpentry

Plumbing

Electrical work

Drainage

Lock fixing

Painting & decorating

Health & Safety

COSHH

Risk management

Record-keeping

Contractor supervision

Site security

Grounds maintenance

Descripción del empleo

Multi-Site Maintenance Supervisor/Caretaker

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a skilled and dependable Multi‑Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker to help maintain our Glendinning and Torlands Academies to an exceptional standard. In this hands‑on role, they will organise and carry out both planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring our buildings remain safe, compliant, and in optimum working condition. From routine checks to essential repairs, their work will directly support the smooth running of our educational environments.

Candidates will bring strong practical skills and experience across a range of building maintenance tasks, including basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, drainage, lock fixing, and painting and decorating. A good understanding of the challenges involved in maintaining an educational setting would be beneficial.

Alongside technical ability, you will demonstrate strong awareness of Health & Safety, COSHH regulations, risk management, record‑keeping, contractor supervision, site security, and the ongoing upkeep of grounds and external areas. You will communicate effectively, interact professionally with staff and visitors, and play an essential role within our wider Estates Team.

The successful applicants will be someone who embodies our Trust values, has diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description.

Wave Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 2020 & 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

What the school offers its staff

• Pension
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Parking

Further details about the role

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall.

The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education.

The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.