About Us
Thank you for your interest in joining our community. We are delighted that you are considering the position of Premises Manager at Glebe Primary School.
The Premises Manager plays a vital role in ensuring that Glebe Primary School is a safe, welcoming and well-maintained environment where children can learn and thrive. By overseeing the day-to-day care of the buildings, grounds and facilities, the role helps create a secure setting for pupils, staff and visitors while supporting the smooth running of the school. The work is essential in maintaining high standards of health and safety, supporting learning activities, and ensuring that our site remains a positive and nurturing place for children to grow and succeed.
We hope this recruitment pack gives you a clear and helpful insight into our school and the exciting opportunities this role offers. We would be delighted to welcome you for a tour of our wonderful school and answer any questions you may have.
We wish you the very best with your application and look forward to hearing from you.
Jo Peace
Interim Headteacher
Job Details
Salary: £30,760.67
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Location: Glebe Primary School
Interviews: 5th August 2026
Purpose of the role
As our Premises Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that the school environment is safe, secure, and well-maintained, providing the foundation for effective teaching, learning, and wider school life.
You will take responsibility for the day-to-day operation, maintenance, and security of the school premises and grounds. Your work will help ensure that staff and pupils benefit from a safe, clean, and functional environment that reflects the high standards and expectations of the school.
You will be proactive, hands-on, and able to respond quickly and effectively to a wide range of tasks and issues. As a visible and trusted premises manager, you will be confident in managing contractors, leading cleaning or site staff, and carrying out regular inspections to ensure the premises remain safe and fully operational.
What You Need to Succeed
To be successful in this role you will need to:
- Ensure that the school buildings and grounds are clean and secure and respond to any security concerns or incidents as needed.
- Act as the designated key holder for the premises and respond to emergency callouts where necessary.
- Be responsible for locking the premises each day at 6pm
- Operate and regularly check building systems, including heating, lighting, alarms, water and CCTV.
- Undertake repairs and general maintenance tasks as necessary.
- Arrange and oversee emergency repairs and routine maintenance to ensure the school remains fully operational and safe.
- Monitor and manage site stock, ordering materials and supplies when needed.
- Supervise and quality-check the work of contractors to ensure standards and timescales are met.
- Carry out general duties such as moving furniture, setting up rooms, or assisting with school events.
- Conduct regular health and safety inspections of the site, including fire safety and COSHH compliance, and act quickly where hazards are identified.
- Monitor and manage the performance of cleaning and site staff, ensuring work is carried out to agreed standards, allocating staffing to meet the needs of the school and to achieve compliance and maintenance targets, ensuring staff have received appropriate training relevant to their roles and in accordance with legislative requirements, and delivering training and necessary coaching/mentoring as required.
- Management of maintenance budgets including preparation of reports as required.
- Ensure ongoing maintenance cover is carried out during the school holidays across the school. This will also include project managing external contractors for any planned construction activity during the holidays.
- Responsible for liaison with all appropriate authorities regarding rating, sanitation, water, electricity, gas, planning, building regulations and environment health.
- Day to day oversight of contractors for regular maintenance, ground maintenance and compliance services and make recommendations for improving value for money and procurement.
- Coordinate and manage visits by contractors, surveyors, inspections etc.
- Support the use and maintenance of specialised equipment after appropriate training.
- This role involves manual tasks, including occasional heavy lifting.
- Facilitate school lettings outside of normal hours.
As Premises Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring our school remains a safe, clean and inspiring place to learn and work.
Premises, Health and Safety
- Liaise with the Business Manager to ensure the School environment is safe, secure, clean and well maintained.
- Oversee premises management, maintenance, repairs, and capital projects.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation, guidance, and United Learning policies.
- Undertake and review risk assessments as required.
- Be the Health & Safety Co-ordinator for the school.
- Oversee any incidents/accidents and be a ‘Super user’ for the Accident Reporting and Management System (ARMS).
- Produce reports for the termly Health & Safety meetings.
- Writing reports, presenting premises and health and safety information to the Local Governing Body
Further Information
Glebe Primary School and West Sussex County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service check along with other relevant employment checks, including satisfactory references.
How to Apply
To apply for this role please download the job description and application form below. Complete the application form and ensure that you outline your motivations for applying, explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills in the job description). Once complete please return this to Jo Peace - [email protected]
Should you have any questions regarding the role or the application please feel free to email us or contact us on 01273 592163.
NOTE TO CANDIDATES - Please do not select the ‘Apply online’ button as the School processes your applications directly rather than through this site.
