Site Assistant
Castle Park School, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6BE17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Immediate start
Closing date
25 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
8 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £10,536.00 - £12,643.00 Annually (Actual) Single Status Grade 5 (£13.47 p.h)
Site Assistant job summary
About this Role
- Hours of work: 15-18 per week
- Working Pattern: TBC
- Full Year
Deployed at Castle Park school but may be required as operationally necessary to provide support across the Southern cluster of CET schools.
Castle Park School is a school very much at the heart of the local community it serves. It has a long and proud tradition of educating and inspiring the children. The trustees are seeking to employ a Site Assistant. Specific activities to be delegated by Site Operations Manager depending on the needs of the school and to include general caretaking duties, “handyman-type” duties and security including securing of school buildings and premises.
The range of duties can be illustrated by the following non-exhaustive list:
Handyman-type duties:
- To carry out minor maintenance work, e.g. replacing handles, light bulbs/tubes, repairing desks etc. and to assist in other maintenance work, e.g. some painting of classrooms etc.
Site Assistant duties which includes:
- To clear litter daily from exterior of building and empty external bins.
- To set up and clear seating arrangements in main hall and other areas as required
- To set out seating, desks etc. and move other equipment in support of the effective operation of the School and Centre.
- Movement of resources around the school to meet demand, including the use of the school minibus or equivalent to aid this.
Security duties:
To be responsible for the safe and efficient lock-up of the school when necessary and to carry out all associated security duties including responding to security alarms call outs.
The Successful candidate will:
- Awareness of Health & Hygiene procedures
- Willingness to attend and participate in training
- Able to identify own training needs and co-operate with means to address these
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to relate well to children
If you have the qualities we require, along with the passion and aspirations to contribute to the success of the School and the MAT, we urge you to hit the "Apply" button.
Cumbria Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Enhanced DBS disclosure and Barred List checks are required for this post. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches are carried out on successful candidates.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Castle Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 338 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Castle Park School website
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