Senior Site Operative (Mobile North Yorkshire)

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. We have taken the harder path many times to remain true to our values. 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.

Position Overview

We have a mobile senior site operative position currently available. The aim of this role is to improve and enhance the service we offer to our academies. This role will work flexibly across the academies in North Yorkshire.

Purpose of the Post

• Lead in the focus on compliance and maintenance across the North Yorkshire area.
• 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.
• Ensure our Academies premises are maintained to a high standard.
• Ensure the estates team delivers a clean, safe, secure learning and working environment.
• Supervise site operatives regarding day‑to‑day duties as required.

Main Responsibilities

• Monitor and update the estates management system (TRM) across multiple sites, focusing on health and safety and estates management compliance such as 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 compliance with statutory regulations, current legislation and local codes of practice and policies in carrying out all duties.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children and vulnerable adults in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults. We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under‑represented groups, 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, please be aware that 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 for the post.