Site Assistant
Wildern School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 4EJ18 days remaining to apply
Closing date
13 October 2025 at 1pm
Date listed
25 September 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
- £25,186.00 Annually (Actual) Grade C – Step 1 - £25,186pa plus 14% shift allowance totalling £28,712.04 pa
Site Assistant job summary
Site Assistant
37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year worked on a rotating shift pattern (Shift pattern to be agreed at appointment). Grade C - Step 1 - £25,186pa plus 14% shift allowance totalling £28,712.04pa 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 and maintenance 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 Wildern 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, Monday 13th October 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.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Wildern Academy 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.
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 Wildern School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1800 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wildern School website
Wildern School is a popular, oversubscribed secondary school situated in the Southampton suburbs. We are a school with significant strength in the CPD of staff, developing our teachers for the next stage of their careers. All students and staff alike can take advantage of excellent facilities which include a lecture theatre, digital media suites, a recording studio, both PC and Mac Suites, community sports centre and access to a professional theatre.
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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