Site Supervisor and Trades Mentor
Storyy Education, Milton Keynes
Location: On-site
About the Role
You’ll keep the site safe, working, and looked after, and you’ll use the everyday work of doing that to teach young people practical skills, patience, and the quiet confidence that comes from making something with your hands.
About Storyy Education
Storyy Education is a trauma-informed education partner working with schools, families, local authorities, and young people across the UK. We support young people whose learning has been disrupted by anxiety, exclusion, instability, SEMH needs, or systems that moved too fast for them, to restore readiness, rebuild structure, and re-engage with learning.
Our Milton Keynes provision sits on eight acres. That land, and the buildings on it, are part of how we do the work. Real jobs, real tools, real outcomes. The site is the classroom.
How the role works
This is one role with two overlapping halves.
- Site supervision (around 35%). Keeping the buildings, grounds, and workshops safe, secure, compliant, and functional.
- Trades mentorship (around 65%). Working alongside young people on real site tasks, teaching hands-on skills, tool safety, and workplace habits that will serve them for life.
The two overlap constantly. A gate that needs rehanging becomes a lesson in measuring, marking, and finishing properly. A patch of ground that needs clearing becomes a lesson in planning a job, working together, and finishing what you start.
What you’ll actually do
Site supervision and safety
- Act as primary keyholder. Manage daily opening, closing, alarms, and access.
- Run regular health and safety checks, compliance logs, and risk assessments across the site.
- Plan and carry out minor site repairs, upgrades, and reactive maintenance across buildings, utilities, and infrastructure.
- Oversee planned preventative maintenance for the fabric of the site.
- Manage the eight-acre grounds, keeping them fit for purpose and compliant with relevant risk assessments.
- Look after tool inventories, workshop cleanliness, and machinery safety.
- Act as the primary point of contact for external contractors and suppliers.
- Handle deliveries, set up spaces for events, and move furniture as needed.
- Offer light IT support to the Provision Manager on staff laptops, printers, and everyday tech issues.
Trades mentorship
- Involve young people directly in real site tasks, pitched at the right level for the age you’re working with.
- Deliver age-appropriate, hands-on instruction in general practical skills. Simple woodworking, painting, gardening, creative building projects.
- Teach tool safety, care of equipment, and respect for the workplace.
- Model the things that are hard to teach in a classroom. Patience, care for detail, finishing what you start, cleaning up properly, showing up on time.
- Build a calm, patient, encouraging environment in the workshop and out on site.
- Support the confidence, resilience, and self-belief of the young people you work with.
The kind of person we’re looking for
You don’t need formal trade qualifications for this role. You do need real capability, and the ability to connect with young people.
The practical side
- A strong, proven background in hands-on, multi-skilled handyperson or building maintenance work.
- Versatile enough to diagnose and fix a wide range of minor site issues without needing to be told twice.
- A serious grasp of workplace health and safety, and safe tool handling.
- A working understanding of UK building codes and health & safety legislation.
- Strong organisation, problem-solving, and the ability to juggle several jobs at once without losing the plot.
- Comfortable managing external suppliers and contractors, and communicating clearly with staff.
The people side
- A genuine interest in young people, across a wide age range from primary to teenagers.
- Real patience. This work rewards it. It also exposes the lack of it.
- Strong listening skills and clear professional boundaries.
- Experience in youth work, alternative education, community mentoring, parenting, or sports coaching is a real plus.
The legal side
- Enhanced DBS check with Barred List, on the Update Service or willing to obtain.
- Right to work in the UK.
How we work
- Be calm. Safety comes first.
- Be consistent. Show up, every time.
- Be real. Speak plainly. Listen deeply.
- Be collaborative. Progress is shared work.
- Be purposeful. Every action should move someone forward.
Pay and hours
- Salary: £28,000 to £30,000 per year, dependent on experience.
- Full-time, permanent, 52-week contract.
What we offer
- Real variety. No two days look the same.
- The chance to use practical skills to change what a young person believes is possible for them.
- Professional development and progression within Storyy Education and the wider Storyy Group.
- A team that takes the work seriously, and each other seriously, without taking itself too seriously.
Practical bits
- Location: Milton Keynes, on-site.
- Work pattern: in person.
- Right to work in the UK: required.
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Why this work matters
A lot of the young people we work with have been told, one way or another, that they aren’t good at things. School has been hard. Sitting still has been hard. Believing they can finish something has been hard.
Practical work changes that. A wall that gets painted properly. A bench that gets built and stays built.
A gate that opens because they made it open. That kind of progress is visible, and it holds.
The person in this role is the one who makes that possible, by keeping the site running and by working alongside young people while they do it. If that’s the kind of work you want to be doing, we’d like to hear from you!
Pay: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
