Deputy Buildings and Community Manager

DEPUTY BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITY MANAGER

Salary: Band 6 (£28,239 - £32,061) 

plus 17% shift allowance 

(Total salary £33,039 - £37,511)

Hours: 37 hours/52 weeks

Start date: As soon as possible

Closing date: Friday 9th January 2026

Interviews held: as soon as possible after closing date

December 2025

Dear Prospective colleague, 

Thank you for your interest in working here at Admiral Lord Nelson School. Please find details of the post together with information about our school 

Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff is motivated by the positive difference they will make to the personal development and the futures of our young people of Portsmouth. It was formed when Admiral Lord Nelson School became an academy in April 2014 with Trafalgar School, which is now our thriving partner Secondary School in Portsmouth.

We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, we have a deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations.

Always oversubscribed, we are expanding our school so that more local families can experience the excellent education offered here at Admiral Lord Nelson School for over two decades Therefore, we wish to extend our Premises team and appoint a Deputy Buildings and Community Manager.

Reporting to the Buildings and Community Manager, the Deputy Buildings and Community Manager will be a key member of the Premises team, playing a pivotal role in the leading and delivering of an efficient and effective service throughout the school. 

You will have a good knowledge of Health and Safety requirements including COSHH; good basic all round DIY/Maintenance skills for example, decorating, plastering, plumbing and carpentry. Core hours of 09.00 – 17.00hrs covering sickness and holiday of the Premises team so reverting to their shift pattern of 06.00 – 14.00 and 14.00 – 22.00 when required.

Exceptional interpersonal skills, attention to detail, a solution focussed approach, high levels of initiative, flexibility, the ability to multitask and work under pressure are all essential qualities for this role. The successful applicant would be expected to deputise for the Building and Community Manager in their absence.

The Salterns Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects 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 Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.

If you are interested in joining our amazing team of staff, we'd love to hear from you. Informal visits from those who are interested in finding out more about the role are welcomed. 

To apply please complete the application form that can be found on the school website  by midday on Friday 9th January 2026. Candidates should send their completed application to You can download the full job description here.

Alternatively, please contact Steve Johnson, Building and Community Manager on  to arrange an informal visit.

Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant self-declaration and disclosure form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in
• If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk.

The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings, and any other information held by local police that's considered relevant to the role. Any information that is "protected" under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate.

The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a check to be made.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected'. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order GOV.UK )

The filtering rules were updated on 28 November 2020 as follows:

• warnings, reprimands and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS certificate
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than all being automatically disclosed.