Estates Partner in Leatherhead

Join our team and help shape safe, efficient and inspiring learning environments across our Trust. We are seeking a proactive, skilled Estates Partner to oversee the operational performance, statutory compliance, maintenance and sustainability of our school estates. This role is key to ensuring our buildings remain safe, warm, compliant and fully supportive of high‑quality teaching and learning.

As an Estates Partner, you will work across several schools, leading site teams, managing planned and reactive maintenance, overseeing statutory inspections, and supporting the delivery of capital and lifecycle projects. You’ll use data to inform decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear, professional advice to Principals and senior leaders. You’ll also play an important role in our sustainability and energy‑reduction ambitions.

This is a Trust‑wide role, working alongside a team of Estates Partners, with an expectation of regular travel between our schools. As regular travel between sites is essential to the role, a full driving licence is desirable.

We’re looking for someone with strong estates, facilities or building‑services experience, excellent organisational skills, and a confident, solutions‑focused approach. You’ll bring solid knowledge of compliance, health and safety, maintenance planning and contractor management, along with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical colleagues. IOSH Managing Safely (or willingness to complete) is essential, with additional estates‑related qualifications or NEBOSH highly desirable.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact - improving the estate, supporting staff and students, and helping shape a safe, efficient and future‑focused learning environment.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations. The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation. All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties.

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

The Howard Partnership Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Howard Partnership Trust ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.