Site Assistant
Queen's Park Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 4HA4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
asap
Closing date
12 January 2026 at 7am
Date listed
19 December 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
- £25,495.00 - £28,907.00 Annually (Actual) AS 4 -12 £25,495- £28,907 dependent on experience
Site Assistant job summary
Site Assistant
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Site Team at QPA and learn how to maintain a School Site. We are seeking someone who is proactive and has a hands-on approach to your work. Join our dedicated Site Team and you will work as part of the team responsible for the maintenance, security and efficient operation of the school premises and grounds, ensuring high standards of health, safety, and compliance are consistently met. This is a physically active role requiring strong practical skills, initiative, and a commitment to maintaining a safe, clean and welcoming environment for our students, staff and visitors.
At Queen’s Park Academy, we value every member of our team. You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative environment where staff are mentored, trained, listened to and encouraged to develop professionally.
Key Duties
- Security of premises
- Portering
- Grounds maintenance
- Building maintenance
- Heating and lighting
- Driving and vehicle maintenance
- Health & Safety
- Cleaning
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience of site assistant duties in a general capacity
- Basic handy-person skills, able to carry out minor repairs including: some simple plumbing and joinery work
- Strong IT skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Substantial knowledge of Health and Safety, including COSHH
- Ability to problem solve and use own initiative
- An understanding of safeguarding and willingness to undertake training relevant to the role
- Willingness to undertake relevant training
- Experience working in a school environment - desirable
- Current valid full driving licence to be able to drive the school minibus when required - desirable
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: asap
Salary: AS 4 -12 £25,495- £28,907 dependent on experience
Job role: Permanent, Full-time, 52 weeks per year (25 days annual leave plus 3 days between Christmas & New Year)
Working Hours 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday (2 week rota system between the hours of 6:45am and 6:15pm)
Shift 1: 6:45am-2:45pm (Mon-Thurs), 6:45am-2:15pm (Fri)
Shift 2: 10:15am-6:15pm (Mon-Thurs), 10:45am-6:15pm (Fri)
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Queen's Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 449 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Queen's Park Academy website
Queen’s Park Academy joined Advantage Schools in December 2021.
The school serves a diverse and international community, and staff pride themselves on helping every child develop as happy, confident, and aspiring learners.
We work hard to demonstrate our golden rules of be kind, be safe and be ready to learn. They are embedded in much of what we do including the culture and behaviour expectations within the school.
The school curriculum is designed to ensure the children learn more over time. We provide them with the knowledge they need to continue to be successful as they progress onto their next stage of education. Learning extends outside of the classroom through visits to places that link to curriculum as well as places that are outside of our children lived experiences. We offer a large range of extracurricular opportunities.
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