Senior Site Operative (North Yorkshire)

This advertisement will show a location of Digital Media Centre in Barnsley as that is where our central team are based. We have two senior site operative positions currently available, these posts are new and are to enhance the service we offer to our academies. The two posts will work flexibly across the academies in North Yorkshire, Leeds and Bradford. A van will be available for journeys during the day.,

• To lead and focus on compliance and maintenance across the North 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.
Main Responsibilities:
• Monitor and update the estates management system (TRM) across multiple
sites, which monitors compliance areas in terms of health and safety and estates management, for example, 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. 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 and participate in out of
hours' emergency call outs.
• Undertake planned preventative maintenance (PPM) within skills 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

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.