Grounds Person

Thomas Deacon Education Trust, Peterborough, PE1 2UW

5 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  10 May 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  25 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,114.00 - £24,702.00 Annually (Actual) Pathway 2 Points 4-8 £23,114 - £24,702 per annum

Grounds Person job summary

Grounds Person

Contract: Full time, 37 hours 52 weeks per annum

Salary: Pathway 2 Points 4-8 £23,114 - £24,702

Site: Thomas Deacon Education Trust

Closing date: 09 May 2024

Start Date: September 2024

Please note – the Trust may decide to withdraw the advert before the closing date or interview suitable candidates prior to the advert closing.

Do you enjoy general grounds maintenance responsibilities?

Are you familiar with using small industrial, electrical, garden and mechanical equipment?

Do you like the thought of working in a busy and friendly school environment where no two days are the same?

If so, then this role of Groundsperson could be for you.

You’ll love this job if you are a motivated team player who can also work independently when required. You will be able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues whilst working alongside children. You must have a clean, valid driving licence and ideally be prepared to learn how to tow a trailer, using our vehicles.

A basic IT understanding is required (outlook emails and some basic data inputting) alongside a willingness to learn new gardening skills, including the safe use of equipment and horticultural products.

Are you a morning person? Preferred hours will be Monday to Friday 0600 – 1400 (1330 finish on Fridays) with a 30-minute unpaid break. Some flexibility would be appreciated and can be reciprocated.

The Grounds Team works as part of our wider Trust Property Services Team; we’re a friendly bunch who support one another. In winter months the Grounds Team are campus heroes, undertaking early morning gritting work to keep everyone safe. If you would like to visit us to see our impressive 43-acre campus and find out more about this role, please contact Mark Pinfold – Head Groundsperson - mark.pinfold@tdet.education who would be delighted to introduce you to his team and answer any questions you may have about this great opportunity. We look forward to meeting you!

By joining our team, you can enjoy benefits such as a generous pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free tea and coffee, free access to onsite gym, progression and continuous development opportunities, free and confidential employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Thomas Deacon Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thomas-deacon-education-trust (opens in new tab)

Thomas Deacon Education Trust is a future-focused multi-academy trust and charitable organisation dedicated to raising educational outcomes and transforming the lives of our students and families across a diverse range of primary and secondary phase academies in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

Each of our academies has its own identity and is empowered to innovate according to its context and locality. However, we are connected through a common set of values – Trust, Diversity, Excellence, and Transformation. In this way, our students gain the very best of opportunities and experiences within a value-driven framework in order to prepare them for the world of the future.

Our academies work closely together, taking part in real and meaningful collaborations between teachers, students, local businesses, and higher education. We firmly believe that the Trust as a whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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