Premises Officer
Desford Community Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JH6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,998 - £27,273
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
Essential:
Good communication skills, written and verbal.
NVQ level 2 or equivalent in numeracy and literacy.
Desirable:
First Aid trained.
Experience
Essential:
Craft skills, e.g. plumber, electrician and decorating or previous experience in a caretaking role including repairs and maintenance.
Working within a school setting.
Liaising with external contractors including negotiating prices for small jobs.
Knowledge
Essential:
Ability to alert senior staff to unsafe practices.
Desirable:
Understanding of the context in which the schools are working.
An ability to undertake risk assessments in relation to premises function.
Desirable:
Knowledge of Health & Safety issues relevant to the post including legislation and COSHH.
An understanding of Health & Safety and security issues.
Knowledge of good security practices.
Desirable:
Ability to understand and apply school policies related to the post including those that relate to pupil contact.
Skills and Competencies
Essential:
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work unsupervised and be able to work as a member of a team.
Ability to maintain accurate records.
Ability to lead, manage and motivate staff.
Good organisational skills – ability to complete tasks to deadlines personally or through colleagues.
Good computer literacy skills.
Ability to use range of tools/cleaning equipment relevant to post.
Ability to undertake a range of basic repairs and maintenance tasks related to equipment and materials etc used in design classrooms.
Ability to work with minimum supervision.
Willingness to undertake personal development and training.
Ability to work as part of a team.
Other Requirements
An understanding of, and commitment to Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010
What the school offers its staff
On behalf of Desford Community Primary School, thank you for your interest in applying for the role of Premises Officer at our school.
We have put together this pack to give you some key information about our school and priorities, as well as to provide the job description and person specification. We hope that after reading it you will be inspired to apply for the role.
Desford is a happy, friendly and hard-working school with a dedicated team of staff. Our pupils behave well, are keen to learn and they take great pride in respecting our school and wider village community. This is an exciting time to be joining our school. We have joined the LIFE Multi-Academy Trust and have a recently established leadership structure with an energy for driving change and improvement. We are in the process of embedding our curriculum that is bespoke to our children at Desford using our four main curriculum drivers: community and diversity, relationships and well-being, planet and sustainability, and safety and risk. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our school, if you have the desire to make a positive difference by confidently teaching high quality lessons, demonstrating excellent classroom practice to raise standards and achieve good outcomes and a commitment to promoting equality and diversity, then this could be the job for you!
Flexible working opportunities
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
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CVs are not accepted.
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About Desford Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 384 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@lifemultiacademytrust.org.uk
Desford Primary School is a vibrant and flourishing school at the heart of the village community. We have around 400 pupils in fourteen classes and are in the midst of significant growth due to large-scale house building in the village. We were awarded "Good" school grading in the Ofsted Inspection of July 2017. The report describes very high standards in all aspects of the school's activities. All school staff are dedicated and capable practitioners and the quality of teaching is at a consistently high level. Outcomes for pupils are consistently good throughout the school. Our children are nurtured, kept safe and are well cared for (Ofsted 2017).
Our school building is modern, attractive and well-maintained and includes an exceptional purpose-built 60-place Foundation Stage unit for Reception children, opened in September 2015 and a two classroom Upper Junior unit opened in May 2018 . All classrooms are spacious and well-equipped and the school prides itself on the quality of the classroom displays.
Our school is one of ten schools in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust. This collaborative school network currently comprises of 4 primary and 6 secondary schools and enables us to keep abreast of current developments in education and continually to develop and improve all aspects of our practice. We work within a group of local schools to the same end.
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