Facilities Assistant
Atlantic Academy Portland, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2NAThis job expired on 18 October 2021
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 October 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
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- 37 hours, 5 days a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 22nd July 2022
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade E NJC 7 - 11
Facilities Assistant job summary
JOB OVERVIEW
Immediate Start
Fixed Term until 22nd July 2022
Hours: 37 per week/52.14 weeks per year
Salary scale: £20,092 - £21,748 (Grade E Points 7 - 11)
Facilities Assistant
We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and energetic Facilities Assistant to join our highly successful team of mutually supportive colleagues whose shared purpose is to inspire and challenge all students at Atlantic Academy.
Here at Atlantic Academy Portland, we are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, professional and team orientated person. We need a Facilities Assistant that understands and can meet the needs of all children. You will be part of a successful, supportive, well resourced and fully staffed Facilities Team and working under the direction of the Facilities Manager to ensure that the school’s buildings, site and furnishings are safe, secure and maintained to Health and Safety standards as defined by the Academy and Health & Safety legislation.
We encourage best practice through a variety of CPD opportunities. We are looking to appoint a candidate that puts children first, mitigates barriers to learning, has a can-do approach.
If you are up for a challenge and want to make a difference then you really should come and work in our terrific academy on the next step of its journey.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
No formal qualifications required but some experience and knowledge would be an advantage. This is a varied role and we are looking for someone who:
- Is reliable and able to work as part of a supportive team
- Has a calm and friendly approach
- Has basic DIY skills
- Is aware of Health and Safety issues
- Has the physical ability to carry out manual handling tasks
- Is naturally cheerful and optimistic, with evidence of the positive contribution that you can bring to our team;
- Is hardworking, dedicated, committed
- Wants to be valued, train further and help us make a difference.
- A commitment to all students receiving an outstanding education experience.
If you believe that this may sound like the school you would thrive in and are ambitious for all students please find out more about this exciting opportunity or to apply please visit our school website.
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.
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About Atlantic Academy Portland
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 787 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Atlantic Academy Portland website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jhhendrie@atlantic-aspirations.org
- Phone number
- 0135 820262
WHY CHOOSE US
Atlantic Academy is an all-through school based in Portland, and has already made great waves in transforming the education of the students in Portland in the last 3 years, leading the way in the highest standards of education as well as disruption free learning. We are looking for somebody to join our amazing journey and be proud of the substantial impact they make on the outcomes and aspirations for our students.
Atlantic Academy Portland is gaining a local and national reputation for rapid sustained improvement.
The Academy is located in stunning buildings, having benefited from a £20 million plus full renovation program. It is situated on the beautiful Isle of Portland, at the heart of the Jurassic Coast, in Dorset. Within easy reach of Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Poole and Bournemouth. This really is an Academy at the very heart of the community.
The Academy is sponsored by the Aspirations Academies Trust (www.aspirationsacademies.org) and is a member of one of their three clusters: The South Coast and South West Region, which consists of Jewell Academy Bournemouth (Primary), Ocean Academy Poole (Junior), Magna Academy Poole (Secondary) and Budmouth Academy (Secondary) and Bovington Academy (Primary).
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Salary
Pension Scheme
On-site parking
Homework is standardised to Knowledge Organiser
Expectation of disruption free learning, high SLT visibility ALL day, focus on students. Allowing staff to teach without low level disruption
Visualiser and mini iPad in every classroom – allowing for booklets, feedback, student work etc to be projected – as the teacher decides
Very clear and transparent sanctions – all detentions centralised and run by SLT each day. Allowing staff to focus on what really matters – the classroom
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