Grounds/Site Assistant
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AH19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 17 ½ hours per week. 2.15pm to 5.45pm Monday to Friday - term-time. Working pattern to be confirmed during non-term time. 23 days annual leave (April-March) addition to 10 day Bank Holidays).
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- SCP 2 £23,656 (pro rata) £11,186.92 (Actual Salary)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you enjoy being outside, whatever the weather, thrive on variety and challenge? Are you are enthusiastic, flexible and reliable?
Then this will be the job for you.
We are seeking a hard-working and dedicated Grounds/Site Assistant to join our busy Site Team. You will work individually or as part of a team, throughout the school to maintain the school grounds to a high standard.
We are Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025, Ranked No 1 in the North of England - The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2025
At Heckmondwike Grammar School, our motivation is for our students to enjoy their school days and to become thoughtful, articulate, confident and responsible members of society. In order to achieve this, we rely on our staff to work closely with students, parents and teachers to provide a supportivecommunity, keeping the well-being of our students at the forefront of everything we do.
The Role:
We are looking for a Grounds/Site Assistant who will maintain the school grounds to a high standard and assist the site staff in the smooth running of the school.
This is an important role in a high achieving grammar school; the post holder must be extremely reliable, flexible, efficient and effective.
The post holder will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the school grounds ensuring a high standard throughout. Experience of working independently and in a team is an essential part of the role; as is working in adverse weather conditions.
The Grounds/Site Assistant will work within a dynamic and proactive team with other site operatives under the guidance of the Site Manager.
The right candidate for this post is one who thrives on variety and challenge. On a typical day, the post holder may be setting up events or exams, undertaking of other site related duties, but the main role being the maintenance of the school grounds as a whole.
As such, experience of working in a school setting is desirable, but not essential.
Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities are set out in a detailed job description.
What will you bring to the role?
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Demonstrate a high standard of customer service
- Work well as part of a team, as well as on your own initiative
- Honesty and integrity
- A flexible and open attitude to change
- Suitability to work with children
Protection of children:
Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
What the school offers its staff
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go.
Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
In return, we offer a competitive salary and membership to a Local Government pension scheme
If you are interested in this position then please visit the vacancies section of our website www.heckgrammar.co.uk/vacancies.
Completed applications should be sent by email to: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk.
Further information about the school is available on the school website www.heckgrammar.co.uk
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1474 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Heckmondwike Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approx 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.
And for the second year running we are ranked No 2 in the North of England.
This is a fabulous accolade to the whole school community and just reward for years of hard work from staff, students and indeed parents.
The survey includes both GCSE and A level results and is nationally noted as a true measure of school performance using metrics of most interest to parents when selecting a school.
“Such accolades are very pleasing and we are delighted to be recognised, but they only come about because of the week in week out hard work from students and staff and I salute my colleagues and students, they are an exceptional team.” Mr Roberts, Headteacher.
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
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