Casual Site Officer across Barking Abbey and Eastbrook Schools
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
8 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 5 (Pt 12, £31524 – Pt 15, £32931) Full time (Hourly rate between Pt 12, £17.27 & Pt15, £18.05 per hour) dependant on experience. Working up to 35 hours per week on a shift pattern, hours to suit the needs of the school and individual.
Casual Site Officer across Barking Abbey and Eastbrook Schools job summary
Casual Site Officer
(This role is for Barking Abbey School and Eastbrook School)
Shift/Flexible working pattern
Casual Work - working hours to be agreed between the school and successful candidate, work will be for a maximum of 7 hours per day over 7 days a week between the hours of 06.00 and 10pm.
Scale 5 (Pt 12, £31524 – Pt 15, £32931) Full time (Hourly rate between Pt 12, £17.27 & Pt15, £18.05 per hour) dependant on experience. Working up to 35 hours per week on a shift pattern, hours to suit the needs of the school and individual.
Start Date: As Soon as Possible
Join Our Team as a Casual Site Officer at Barking Abbey School and Eastbrook School!
Are you looking for a flexible role that fits around your current job or commitments? Do you have experience
in general maintenance and facilities support? Are you passionate about hands-on work and enjoy a variety
of tasks? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
About us
Barking Abbey School is an Ofsted Outstanding, heavily over-subscribed secondary school located in Barking, East London. We have a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment. Our school celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
We have recently entered a partnership with Eastbrook School in Dagenham and are expanding our teams to support both schools to ensure that we can deliver an excellent school experience for our community’s young people.
The Role
We are seeking committed, reliable, and enthusiastic Casual Site Officers and General Handy persons to join our teams. You will be responsible for ensuring that our school environments are safe, well-maintained, and comfortable for all students, staff, and visitors. You will work alongside other site officers the facilities team, across multiple campuses.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform general maintenance and repair tasks.
- Ensure the security and upkeep of school buildings.
- Conduct security checks and oversee cleaning.
- Carry out caretaking and manual handling duties, including moving furniture and equipment.
- Comply with safeguarding policies and procedures
Why Join Us?
Flexible working hours: Up to 7 hours a day, between 06:00 and 22:00, for up to five days a week.
Supportive and encouraging staff teams.
Access to a wide range of CPD opportunities.
A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems.
Convenient locations: Less than 10 minutes’ walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station
What We Are Looking For
Relevant experience, skills, and/or qualifications.
Enthusiastic with great communication and time management skills.
Passionate about fixing things and maintaining buildings.
Self-motivated and driven.
Enjoy working in a busy environment and keeping active.
Lead by example with the highest professional standards and expectations
Make a Difference
Join us in making a difference in young people’s lives by ensuring our learning environments are the best they can be. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, whatever your background or history, please apply!
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “This is a large and diverse school where difference is valued. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are supportive and respectful of each other. Pupils’ conduct is exemplary, both inside lessons and around the school. Leaders have established simple and clear rules that everyone understands. Pupils are focused, engaged and participate well in lessons. Staff feel that their workload and well-being has been carefully considered by leaders. They appreciate their open-door policy”. (Ofsted, February 2024)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants.
Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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