Site Assistant
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
asap
Closing date
10 February 2025 at 8am
Date listed
24 January 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
- £24,704.00 - £28,011.00 Annually (FTE) AS 4-12 £24,704-£28,011 dependent on experience
Site Assistant job summary
Site Assistant
Houstone School are seeking a proactive and hands-on Site Assistant to join our dedicated Facilities Team. The ideal candidate for this physically demanding job will be an individual with good handy-person skills and eagerness to carry out the work in an efficient manner.
We are seeking a committed Site assistant who will carry out general repairs and maintenance, liaise with contractors and suppliers and ensure our school maintains a high level of health and safety.
You will join our friendly and hardworking facilities department to help keep our school safe, clean and in a good state of repair.
Key Duties
Security of premises
Portering
Grounds maintenance
Heating and lighting
Driving and vehicle maintenance
Health & Safety
Cleaning
Building maintenance
Please see further details of job description and person specifications within the attached Recruitment booklet.
The successful candidate will have
Experience of site assistant duties in a general capacity
Strong IT skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to problem solve and use own initiative
Basic handy-person skills, able to carry out minor repairs including: some simple plumbing and joinery work.
Substantial knowledge of Health and Safety, including COSHH
An understanding of safeguarding.
Willingness to undertake relevant training.
Job Specifics
Start Date asap
Salary AS 4-12 £24,704-£28,011 dependent on experience
Job role Full time, permanent, 52 weeks, 7.5 hours per day (shift pattern to be agreed)
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline 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.
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 pupils. The successful applicant 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 are not accepted.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 517 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Houstone School website (opens in new tab)
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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