Facilities Assistant - Houstone School
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PXThis job expired on 9 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as relevant checks have been complete
Closing date
9 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,414.00 - £26,721.00 Annually (Actual) Advantage School Support Band 4-12
Facilities Assistant - Houstone School job summary
£23,414 - £26,721 pro rata (FTE – 1.0) Advantage Schools Support Staff Pay scale Points 4-12
Permanent – Full time (Due to the opening of a new site in 2023, initially this post will be day shifts with the post moving to the working hours of 2.00pm - 10.30pm Monday to Thursday and 2.30pm - 10.30pm on Friday with an hour unpaid break)
We are looking for a full time Facilities Assistant to join our growing team at Houstone School. The successful applicant will be flexible, hardworking and willing to go the extra mile. We are looking for the successful applicant to start as soon as relevant checks have been completed.
The role will include
Assisting the School Facilities Lead in ensuring all aspects of the school site, including but not limited to, the maintenance of the buildings, grounds, vehicles and equipment, is to a high standard, enabling the school to remain working efficiently and effectively
To inform the Facilities Lead of all site contract issues, including health and safety
To ensure the security, care and availability of the educational premises and its furniture, fittings and equipment
To support the Facilities Lead in supervision of the cleaning staff, including co-ordination and delegation of relevant activities
To be a named key holder and if required to attend the school in the event of an out of hours emergency
To promote the efficient use of the Schools’ assets to support their educational objectives
For more details please look at the job description and person specification.
WHY HOUSTONE SCHOOL?
Houstone School is a brand new secondary school, which opened in September 2022, we opened with pupils in Year 7-10, and from September 2023 we have pupils in all year groups.
At Houstone, our values of aspiration, endeavour, and respect, underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
The successful candidate will be intrinsic in further developing a school that will offer families a genuine choice of an excellent education for their child, including:
A disciplined “can do” culture that allows every student to be known, feel safe, and be cared for.
An intensive focus on the basics of reading, writing and Maths.
An academic, knowledge-rich curriculum that values the distinctiveness of subject disciplines.
Excellent quality, evidence-based classroom practice.
High quality PSHE provision.
Plentiful, high quality enrichment opportunities, including trips, visits, after-school clubs and sporting fixtures.
ABOUT ADVANTAGE SCHOOLS
Our values are aspiration, honesty and respect and our vision is to create a family of exceptional schools, within which students are empowered and supported to achieve extraordinary outcomes. We currently run five schools in Bedfordshire – Bedford Free School (secondary, Ofsted outstanding), Houstone School (secondary, not yet inspected), Elstow School (primary, Ofsted good), Queen’s Park Academy (primary, Ofsted good) and Laburnum Primary School. Our pupils will leave our schools prepared for a fulfilling life, including the opportunity to go to a great university and pursue the career of their choice. To achieve this, our network of schools teach an academic, knowledge-rich curriculum enhanced by an entitlement to enrichment for all.
We achieve our goals through the recruitment and retention of the best colleagues and school leaders, developing talent through sector-leading professional learning. We foster collaborative work, both across our trust and our extensive network of professional contacts, to ensure our staff can learn from and contribute significantly to the wider educational system.
We believe great staff make a great school, so we look after our colleagues well. We value hard work, but we do all we can to identify and eliminate unnecessary workload that could result in burnout.
Closing Date: 09.00, 9 September 2024 although we reserve the right to close the position and interview early should a suitable candidate apply.
Interview dates: Details to follow
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 517 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Houstone School website (opens in new tab)
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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