Premises Manager

Are you an experienced and proactive Premises Manager looking for your next challenge? Join our friendly and dedicated team at Bexley Grammar School, a thriving secondary school in the heart of Welling with 1,500 pupils.

Following the retirement of the post holder, we seek to appoint a Premises Manager with effect from 17 November 2025 , who will play a crucial part in the smooth running of our school, ensuring our buildings and grounds provide a safe, secure and welcoming environment for students, staff and visitors. The successful candidate will manage our site team, oversee all aspects of site maintenance, and take a lead role in health and safety compliance.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience managing school or similar premises
  
• A strong understanding of health and safety regulations
  
• Excellent organisational and team leadership skills
  
• A proactive, practical approach to problem-solving
  
• A flexible attitude with regard to working hours as some evening/weekend working may be required
  

In return, we offer:

• A supportive and collaborative working environment
  
• Opportunities for professional development and training
  
• The chance to make a real difference to our school community
  

Bexley Grammar School is an oversubscribed, high achieving, coeducational selective school, rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in October 2022. With a full complement of subject specialist teachers, a rich curriculum and a wealth of co-curricular activities, we provide an exciting and enriching educational experience for all and many opportunities for career progression in both the academic and pastoral life of the school.

Closing date for applications is noon on Tuesday 30th September with a view to interviews taking place on Monday 6th October. If you have received no communication from the school by Friday 3rd October, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Bexley Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks, including online public searches. This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.