Site Assistant
Deer Park School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2HT14 days remaining to apply
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 May 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
- £24,405.00 Annually (Actual) Grade C – Step 1 - £24,405pa and 24 days holiday, plus 12% shift allowance of £2,928.60. Total actual salary £27,333.60 pa and 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.
Site Assistant job summary
Site Assistant37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, working a two week alternating shift pattern of Monday to Friday 6.30am to 2.30pm and 11.00am to 7.00pm (with a 36 minute unpaid lunch break each day). Flexibility regarding the start/finish times will be required to cover colleague’s holidays. Grade C – Step 1 - £24,405pa and 24 days holiday, plus 12% shift allowance of £2,928.60. Total actual salary £27,333.60 pa and 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, reliable and hardworking Site Assistant to join our existing Site Team in maintaining the school site in order to provide a clean and safe environment for all users of the school.
The successful candidate will work with the site team ensuring general repairs and maintenance are carried out. You will need to be able to use your initiative and problem solve whilst ensuring that health and safety regulations are adhered to. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our established site team at Deer Park School.
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Show initiative, be proactive, have good organisational and time management skills
- Be a team player and be a member of our school community
- Be able to work in a flexible manner to support the needs of the school
- Take responsibility for security and be a key holder
- Undertake a range of repairs and maintenance and ensure lighting and heating are operational.
- Ensure that a high level of confidentiality and professionalism is maintained
- Carry out the compliance checks as required (Full training provided)
Specific trade strengths in any area would be an advantage but not essential. Lifting, moving and handling of furniture and deliveries also form an important part of the job. Full health and safety training will be provided.
Benefits of working for our trust include:
- Friendly and sociable colleagues
- Free on-site car park
- Staff membership rates to our modern on-site Leisure Centre
- Enrolment in one of the UK’s Largest public sector pension schemes
- A tax efficient Cycle-to-Work scheme through salary sacrifice
- Good transport links
If you currently work in a school, please ensure one of your references is from your current Headteacher.
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Closing Date: Midday, Friday 6th June 2025.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
RAISE Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Deer Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 487 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Deer Park School website
Deer Park School is a new seven-form entry secondary school which opened in September 2021 initially with four forms of Year 7 and growing to full capacity of seven forms of entry over the next seven years.
We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues joining us.
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