Assistant Site Services Officer
Lime Academy Abbotsmede, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5JS37 days remaining to apply
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 December 2024
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
- £30,559.00 - £32,115.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Points 18-21, 20 hours per week, 52 weeks
Assistant Site Services Officer job summary
Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:
- Learners are safe and enjoy learning
- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
- Employee potential is recognised and invested in
The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.
We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.
Overview of the role
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to provide an efficient range of site support services including general repairs and maintenance, supervising the cleaners and the cleaning of the school. The candidate needs to be flexible as this contract may include some weekend work; the salary reflects any weekend working with no additional premium.
The post holder will be responsible for assisting the Site Services Officer to ensure the security of the school premises and will assist in the maintenance of any machinery and equipment within the school together with helping maintain the internal and external fabric of the school’s premises to ensure a safe working environment. The successful candidate will also demonstrate:
- Experience of working under Health & Safety Regulations/Legislation
- An efficient range of site support services including locking and unlocking the school site
- General repairs and maintenance within the scope of a competent handyperson, supervision of cleaners and porterage duties
- Proven knowledge of statutory checks in order for the school building to be safe and compliant
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and customer service skills
- That they are able to drive and have the use of a vehicle as cover maybe required at our other Lime Trust Schools from time to time
The postholder will be part of our school support function and play a large part in delivering a high-quality education to the learners who attend our schools.
Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted, therefore you may be called to interview before the closing the date.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and can be arranged by contacting Michaela Page, School Business Manager.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.
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 are not accepted.
About Lime Academy Abbotsmede
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 461 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lime Academy Abbotsmede website (opens in new tab)
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