Assistant Site Manager

Kingsdown School, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 6XT

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £19,936.00 - £21,254.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Site Manager job summary

Kingsdown is a special school. It is for pupils aged 3-14 years who have severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Site Manager to support the Site Manager and to cover in their absence, to start as soon as possible.

27 hours 30 minutes per week [1.30pm - 7.00pm], 52 weeks.

Salary: LG Level 5 Point 8-12 - £26,824 - £28,598 pa (Actual salary £19,936 - £21,254 pa)

The Assistant Site Manager role is supporting the delivery of high-quality education through helping facilitate improvements to the school’s organisation and environment. All areas of the school’s work have a need for high quality support services. By effectively carrying out this role, you will not only be ensuring that efficient support services are in place to meet our teaching and learning requirements, but you will also be helping to make other people’s lives easier to manage.

Responsible for: Working with the Site Manager dealing with the maintenance, health and safety and security of our school buildings, facilities and site.

The main purpose of the job is to lock the school building and Lighthouse Centre and undertake caretaking duties.

The role requires a person who is reliable, proactive and hardworking with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

Kingsdown School is committed to safer recruitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of our pupils, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, and DBS check.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Kingsdown School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 14
• Size: 130 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 14
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Kingsdown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kingsdown-school-southend-on-sea

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