Site Management
The site management service is led by the Trust’s Estates Manager, who works with a specialist team of multi-site maintenance staff. The service includes:
- Strategic planning for site development and improvement, including capital projects & 5-year capital plan and support for capital bids. This includes a meeting with the headteacher / SLT at least once per term, and the potential, where policy criteria is met, to receive additional capital funding via the Trust’s School Conditions Allocation (received from the DfE each year).
- Full site condition survey by external contractor to assess school condition and plan maintenance and capital works
- Regular reviews and guidance to ensure statutory compliance in all site related areas and co-ordination of planned preventative maintenance across all Trust sites
- Training and development of school site staff, with option to buy in to additional Site SLA which includes Trust appointed and managed site caretaker based at the school.
- Project management of specific site development projects (at additional ‘at cost’ charge), including materials costing and purchasing, trade prices with purchasing power, repairs stream reporting and completion system with full traceability and costing and Service contracts & plans
- Access to team of multi-trade site staff for projects (additional ‘at cost’ if large projects)
- Preventative maintenance system developed to cross over to any site with online reporting and KPI's (supplement for software cost applies)
In addition to the termly strategy meeting with the headteacher, the Trust’s Estate Manager will visit each school site at least once a month to conduct at high level site check and link with the school’s Site Supervisor.