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Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,254.00 - £28,598.00 Annually (Actual)

Premises Team Member job summary

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Perform a wide range of maintenance tasks across the school’s buildings and grounds, ensuring everything is kept to the highest standard.
• Work with initiative and take pride in your work, always maintaining a professional approach.
• Assist our Caretaking staff with deliveries, furniture movement, and general site security.
• Be on a rota for out-of-hours call-outs as needed, ensuring site security and urgent maintenance tasks are addressed promptly.
• Flexibility to assist with after-school and weekend events, with overtime pay provided.
• Undertake some lone working when necessary, with a commitment to health and safety at all times.
• Maintain and update records on computers, including training materials, emails, and maintenance logs.

Requirements:

• Experience in buildings maintenance is essential. A trade qualification would be a distinct advantage, but other specific building skills are also beneficial.
• A good awareness of Health & Safety regulations, particularly in relation to buildings and grounds maintenance.
• Flexibility in working hours and duties to meet the school’s needs.
• Ability to work proactively and manage your day-to-day tasks independently.

We will provide:

A strong, highly committed team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit.

Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing.

An environment which promotes innovation.

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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