mobile senior site operative in Barnsley

Overview: This advertisement will show a location of Digital Media Centre in Barnsley as that is where our central team are based, but these roles will work flexibly across the academies in North Yorkshire / West Yorkshire. This is a mobile senior site operative position currently available, and the role will work flexibly across the academies in North Yorkshire, Leeds and Bradford. Wellspring is a growing community of Primary, Secondary, Special and Alternative Provision Academies across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. We believe in making a real difference by improving the lives and life chances of every young person in our care. Our Academies are vibrant, autonomous, community focused and highly successful. Whether at the start of their school life or heading into adulthood, we treat all our pupils with 'unconditional positive regard.' This means we focus on understanding each child as an individual and meeting their own, unique needs. At Wellspring, we have always talked about ethics and values as the heart of our culture. They have been our guiding lights. Our leaders are the custodians of our values. Wellspring has ambitious plans to grow over the next five years, building on our strong reputation and performance to date. At the heart of this growth are our people and the culture they own. We have earned our success thus far by empowering leaders within the context of a comprehensive and robust Trust-wide monitoring and risk assurance framework. We aim to raise expectations and ambitions for every young person in our care. We aim to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• To help in leading the focus on compliance and maintenance across the North and West Yorkshire cluster of schools.
• To provide a comprehensive, customer-led estates and facilities service across multiple academies within the Trust, ensuring the efficient and effective running of all aspects of estates-related operations.
• To ensure our Academies premises are maintained to a high standard.
• To ensure the estates team deliver a clean, safe, secure learning and working environment.
• To supervise site operatives regarding day to day duties as required.
• Monitor and update the estates management system (TRM) across multiple sites, including health and safety compliance and estates management (e.g., statutory inspections around fire, legionella, gas safety, etc.).
• Support and provide training to users of TRM, ensuring they are equipped to effectively use the system.
• Assist with the implementation of systems, policies and procedures to ensure the smooth operations of the Academy sites.
• Make a significant contribution to the development of the Academy sites to continually improve the buildings, sites, grounds to benefit pupils, staff and to enhance teaching and learning functions.
• Contribute to the longer term 5-year cycle of estates management maintenance plans.
• Assist with the inspection and condition of school grounds, buildings, building services and facilities.
• Assist with the co-ordination of specialist contractors.
• Undertake planned preventative maintenance (PPM) within skill set, for example, fault finding, repairs, minor improvement works across the sites.
• Perform a wide range of the work of other trades as skill level permits.
• Ensure that in carrying out all duties there is a compliance with statutory regulations, current legislation and local codes of practice and policies.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Experience in estates and facilities management across multiple sites (preferably within an academy trust or similar environment).
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations and compliance frameworks relevant to schools/educational estates.
• Experience with estates management systems (e.g., TRM) or equivalent tools, with the ability to train users.
• Ability to work across multiple sites and adapt to a flexible regional arrangement (North Yorkshire / Leeds / Bradford).
• Full safeguarding emphasis: Wellspring is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils; posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks.
• This role involves working with children and vulnerable adults in regulated activity; it is an offence to apply if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.
• References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates; further pre-employment checks including prohibitions, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
• We are committed to equal opportunities and promoting diversity. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
• If you are currently living overseas or have lived/worked overseas in the last five years, you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate.