Site & Premises Supervisor

The Westleigh School; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

The Westleigh School in Lancashire is seeking an enthusiastic, reliable Site & Premises Supervisor to ensure a safe, secure and well-maintained environment for students and staff.

You will oversee daily site operations, coordinate contractors, conduct health and safety checks, manage security, and respond to emergencies with a proactive approach to maintenance in a busy secondary school.

Qualifications

• Practical, hands-on approach with strong organisational skills.
• Experience in site, premises, estates or facilities roles desirable, ideally in education.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, clean, secure and welcoming school environment.
• Oversee day-to-day operation and maintenance of the site, buildings and grounds.
• Carry out regular site checks and respond to health and safety issues.
• Coordinate contractors and external services to ensure safe, effective work.
• Support compliance checks and statutory health and safety requirements.
• Manage site security, including opening/closing and emergencies.
• Identify issues and prioritise/resolve them efficiently.
• Build positive relationships with staff, students, contractors and visitors.

Skills

Health & safety awareness

Facility management

Contractor coordination

Emergency response

Attention to detail

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable and hands‑on Site & Premises Supervisor to join our secondary school and play a key role in ensuring our school environment is safe, secure, well‑maintained and welcoming for our students, staff and visitors.

Working as part of the school’s support team, you will take responsibility for the day-to-day management of the school site and premises, ensuring buildings, facilities and grounds are maintained to a high standard.

We are looking for someone who will:

• Take pride in maintaining a safe, clean, secure and welcoming school environment.
• Oversee the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the school site, buildings and grounds.
• Carry out regular site checks and respond promptly to any maintenance or health and safety issues.
• Coordinate contractors and external services, ensuring work is completed safely and effectively.
• Support with compliance checks, statutory testing and health and safety requirements.
• Manage site security, including opening and closing the school and responding to emergencies where required.
• Work proactively to identify issues and ensure they are resolved efficiently.
• Build positive relationships with staff, students, contractors and visitors.

The successful candidate will be practical, organised and proactive, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload. Previous experience in a site, premises, estates or facilities role would be desirable, ideally within an educational setting.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who takes pride in their work and wants to make a real difference to the day-to-day running of a busy secondary school.

If you are a committed and dependable individual who can help us maintain an exceptional environment for our students and staff, we would love to hear from you.

Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring The Westleigh school is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Westleigh School is a great place to learn and a great place to work.

Uniting with The Shaw Education Trust brings with it new opportunities and a wealth of resources to supplement our mission to improve outcomes for all our students. Colleagues will have access to a large range of well-established training opportunities, such as a fully funded L5 Instructional Coaching qualification or Accelerated Leadership training, for those aspiring to Middle Leadership. Outstanding teachers will also achieve Trust Professional Advocate designation, which provides exciting opportunities to support colleagues within both The Westleigh School and across other SET schools to share best practice. With this brings the opportunity to engage in the cross-trust peer review and Trust CPD programme.

All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.

AtShaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life. Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, orleading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.

Ourvalues—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything wedo. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power oflearning.” We bring this to life through our mission: workingtogether to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voicematters, and every learner thrives.

Weare a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools,proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.

Ourpeople are our greatest asset, and we are deeply committed to their developmentthrough high-quality training, apprenticeships, talent development programmes,and research opportunities, we empower our staff to thrive as skilled,confident professionals. We champion wellbeing, value every voice, and foster aculture where you feel supported, motivated, and inspired to make a realdifference.

Youwill join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and astrong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust hasan equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailoredlearning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures.

Ifyou have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and createfutures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team.

Together,let’s make the remarkable happen.

Webelieve every child has the potential to be extraordinary.

Inour secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach tocurriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculummodels don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate andprovide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. Wewant our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful,and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of ourinnovation include moving towards a trust wide approach to enrichment andcompetitions, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunitiesfor essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducingvocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal schoolcurriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities todevelops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto TLevels and apprenticeships.

ShawEducation Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching orSupport Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (SupportStaff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time,all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day ofemployment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoyhealth services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Supportand Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection ofdiscounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute ofEducation and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute andflourish in your role and in the Trust.

Weknow our people are the key to our success and so we’re committedtoensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewardingone.

Colleagueswithin the Trust benefit from:

Access to a full range of courses both in-house andprofessionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the NationalProfessional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered byShaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.

• Experiencedleadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidancefrom former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Accessto the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunitiesto work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participatingin peer reviews.
• Accessto a suite of online courses.
• Placementprojects within our family of schools.