Deputy Estate Manager

Deputy Estates Manager

Wave Multi Academy Trust is seeking a proactive and skilled Deputy Estates Manager to support the effective operational management of our estates services across our Academies. This is a key role focused on ensuring our academies provide safe, secure and well‑maintained learning environments for pupils and staff. Working closely with the Estates Manager, the successful candidate will play a vital role in maintaining high standards of premises management. You will co‑ordinate and deliver both planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring all works comply with relevant regulatory, health and safety, fire and security requirements. You will also support the day‑to‑day operation of estates services, contribute to the supervision and co‑ordination of estates staff and contractors, and provide practical and technical advice to academy sites.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

The Benefits

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

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and online check.

This hands‑on role requires a strong practical background in building maintenance, including experience in carpentry, basic electrical work, plumbing, decorating and general repairs. You will combine technical expertise with effective people management skills to help deliver a responsive, efficient and compliant estates service across the Trust.

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 1,000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

Our Values

Evidence shows that the values we embody empower young people to succeed; these are the values we are looking for when we recruit new staff or work with new stakeholders.

BE POSITIVE We value positivity, no matter what the circumstances. It is our intention to stay constructive, optimistic and confident both for and with our young people and their families.

HAVE EMPATHY We are kind, we have empathy. We consider the consequences of our decisions, large and small on those around us.

SHOW RESPECT We conduct ourselves in ways that earn the trust of those around us. We respect each other and those we work with.

WORK AS ONE TEAM We depend on teamwork and the relationships we have. When we work together we are stronger. Together we will achieve more.

BE INCLUSIVE Everybody is treated fairly and equally; no-one is marginalised or left behind. We are inclusive, we embrace the human spirit. We value diversity of people and thought.