Head of Facilities

The Wensum Trust is currently seeking a Head of Facilities to join the Central team.

The Head of Facilities provides strategic and operational leadership across all aspects of the Trust’s estate and facilities functions, ensuring that all schools operate from safe, compliant, sustainable and high-quality environments.

This role sets the standards and frameworks that Site Officers and Caretakers implement.

The postholder will lead the Trust’s approach to:

• Statutory compliance

• Capital planning and delivery (SCA & DFC)

• Energy, environment and sustainability

• Hard and soft FM (cleaning, catering, grounds, security, waste)

• Risk management and assurance

• Data, digital tools and estate intelligence

• Lettings

This is a permanent role. 37 hours per week, all year round.

As part of The Wensum Trust, we believe that our shared duty is to help every child to develop into high achieving, confident, healthy, caring and resilient members of their family and community. We want our schools to be healthy environments where both children and staff can develop and where strong, positive relationships are key. Our school, therefore, practices a relational approach with children, our families and our communities. We are particularly interested in working with people who share Our Qualities; who will work effectively and flexibly as part of a team.

Being a part of The Wensum Trust’s family of schools offers employees unique experiences to work alongside our strategic partners and to collaborate with a wider network of staff. We believe in investing in employees as individuals, by providing training opportunities that help to develop both existing and new skill sets, to encourage career progression at all levels.

We value our staff and are committed to supporting their wellbeing. We have an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which all staff can access 24 hours a day. The EAP provides counselling services, legal information and guidance, musculoskeletal services and online resources such as nutrition diaries, healthy eating plans, personal coaching questionnaires and tools and fitness programmes.

We care about bringing together the most able people, to help us achieve our vision of providing a rounded education for children, quality support for their families and opportunities to enrich our communities.

For further information on this vacancy and our Trust, please contact Mark Fitzpatrick on [email removed]

Safer Recruitment

The Wensum Trust is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Wensum Trust is exempt from the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974 and all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent' must be declared. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Record Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, along with other relevant employment checks, including overseas criminal background checks.