Facilities Operative
Sheffield Springs Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S12 2SF10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 April 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:00
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,131 gross per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Facilities Operative who is:
- Reliable, highly motivated and self-driven.
- Experienced with an excellent knowledge and understanding in a busy facilities environment/background.
- Keen on attention to detail, has high standards and takes pride in their work, ensuring accuracy in record keeping/reporting.
- Keen to be part of a collaborative team of staff in our cluster of schools.
- A team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexible to support various events happening during opening and out of hours.
- Someone with excellent building fabric and/or mechanical/publishing maintenance and practical skills and understanding.
What the school offers its staff
We will offer you:
- Highly competitive salary
- Excellent facilities and resources
- Access to an outstanding professional development programme
- Polite, respectful and dedicated students who want to learn and fulfil their potential
- A respectful working environment
- Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development
- A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country
- Opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues in other schools within the Yorkshire cluster and across United Learning
- Excellent employee benefits which include a highly sought-after pension scheme with high employer contributions
- Access to training through the Apprenticeship Levy
- Westfield benefits platform
- We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sheffield Springs Academy
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1047 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sheffield Springs Academy website
- Email address
- hr@unitedlearningyorks.org.uk
Sheffield Springs Academy is an 11-16 secondary school and is Ofsted rated ‘Good’. As part of United Learning, our aim is to bring out ‘the Best in Everyone’. Our values are Respect, Excellence, Ambition and Pride, and these are demonstrated in all aspects of academy life and by all members of our wonderful team
Sheffield Springs Academy is an outward-facing school, learning from outstanding schools both within the group and beyond. We are unapologetic about our high standards and unashamedly ambitious for all our students and our staff team, we are embarking upon a journey towards becoming a great school. As part of this journey, we are creating an academic culture that is warm, disciplined and joyful and ensures impeccable behaviour. We aim for a culture that means teachers can teach and students can develop their knowledge.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our Subject Specialists, Group-wide Intranet, our own curriculum and online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, which supports simplifying work processes and managing workloads for an improved work-life balance.
We are committed to staff wellbeing and have a wide-reaching wellbeing programme in place, we listen to the views of our staff team and we strive to make Sheffield Springs a brilliant place to work. We hold celebration briefings, ensure early finishes on INSET days, have a realistic marking policy, calendar in meeting-free-weeks and host a range of wellbeing activities to make sure staff have the time and support they need to fully support our pupils.
Our academy is located at one of Sheffield’s highest points, with incredible views across our catchment area directly to Stanage Edge, Hathersage and beyond into the Peak District. We are less than 30 minutes from the beautiful Peak District National Park, only 15 minutes away from the M1 motorway network and just a 5-minute walk to the nearest Supertram stop which provides efficient links to all areas of the city. Sheffield is a vibrant and diverse city; we are incredibly lucky to be in such a fantastic location which offers so much.
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