HEAD OF ESTATES

Single Status Grade 11 (£40,109 - £42,899) 

37 hours per week, Monday to Friday (Mon – Thurs 8am–4pm, Fri 8am-3.30pm) 

Full Time 52 weeks per year

Permanent contract  

Closing date: 9am Monday 22 June 2026

Interview date: Friday 26 June 2026

Starting date: as soon as possible

Cavendish Education Trust (CET) currently works with 3 Eastbourne schools, Cavendish all-through School, Roselands Infants School and Stafford Junior School. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and committed professional to manage all of the school sites. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your skills and expertise to maintain and develop our school sites to enable us to provide an excellent working and learning environment for our pupils and staff. This is an exciting time to join our team as Cavendish School is part of the DfE School Rebuilding Programme which involves the redevelopment of our sports centre. This is a school based role, working at the Cavendish School but you will be required to regularly visit the other schools.

The successful candidate will: 

• Lead on the Trust’s building projects including the planning and development to enhance our premises across the Trust’s schools

• Lead on the Health and Safety for the Trust and ensure that all statutory and compliance requirements are met across the schools in accordance with strategic plans

• Manage the site staff across all school sites and be a valued team player

• Be an excellent communicator and negotiator as the role will be liaising with school staff and contractors

• Lead on contractual services, eg grounds maintenance, and be the Trust’s lead on environment and sustainability plans

As a full time position you will receive an annual leave entitlement per year and you will join a team of dedicated and hard-working staff.

Please visit our website for further details as well as the application process via the recruitment platform mynewterm https://cet.uk/vacancies/

We look forward to receiving your application, if you have any questions please email hr@cet.uk

Please note that we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect all those who work with us to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check with the Disclosure & Barring Services (previously the Criminal Records Bureau). For further information about what is required in this process please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record. We give high priority to promoting diversity throughout the school