Site Assistant
Northallerton School & Sixth Form College, Northallerton, DL6 1ED12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 March 2026 at 8am
Date listed
9 March 2026
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
- £25,988.00 - £27,254.00 Annually (Actual) Grade E, Scale Point 06 -09 based on £25,988 - £27,254. Salary dependent upon qualifications and experience.
Site Assistant job summary
To ensure a safe, functional working environment across the school site for all users. To contribute to the site duties detailed below, including call-out requirements. To be flexible in the nature of the duties, cover, emergency arrangements and work periods to meet the operational needs of the school. Ensuring operational implementation of associate Trust wide policies and procedures.
Job Details
Hours of Work: This is a 37‑hour per week role (all year round) on a two‑week rotating shift pattern:
Week 1 - Early shifts
Monday-Thursday - 6.30am - 2.30pm (30 minute break - unpaid)
Friday - 6.30am - 2pm (30 minute break - unpaid)
Week 2 - Late shifts
Monday-Thursday - 11.30am - 7.00pm (paid 30 minute break)
Friday - 12noon - 7pm (paid 30 minute break)
There is also an expectation of occasional Saturday opening/locking up, paid at the hourly rate. This will be discussed further at interview.
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Site Manager
Travel Required: Yes
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Northallerton School & Sixth Form College is seeking a hardworking, reliable and proactive Site Assistant to support the safe and efficient operation of our school site. As a key member of the Estates Team, you will help maintain a secure, clean and functional environment for all students, staff and visitors. You will report directly to the Site Manager and support Trust‑wide estate operations where required.
About the role
The Site Assistant will contribute to day-to-day duties that ensure the school site is safe, well-maintained and fully operational. This includes supporting school activities, maintaining buildings and grounds, responding to emergencies, and assisting with routine safety and compliance tasks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Opening, unlocking and securing the site, including lettings and community use
- Performing daily site and security checks and responding to emergencies (including out of hours where needed)
- Undertaking minor repairs and first-line maintenance (e.g. painting, fixing fixtures, basic DIY tasks)
- Supporting building projects and contractor supervision
- Portering duties, such as moving furniture, setting up exam rooms and school events, and managing deliveries.
- Maintaining external areas, including litter picking, grounds maintenance, and ensuring paths and entrances are free of snow/ice.
- Carrying out routine compliance checks (e.g. heating systems, boiler checks, utility readings)
- Supporting statutory testing (e.g. Legionella, PAT, emergency lighting, fire alarms)
- Ensuring health and safety, safeguarding and data protection requirements are followed at all times
- Responding flexibly to operational needs across the school and Trust
This role involves working both indoors and outdoors in all weather conditions, with the use of tools, equipment and cleaning products (appropriate PPE provided).
An enhanced DBS check is essential - this is will form part of our pre-employment checks.
About you
We are looking for someone who:
Essential skills and experience:
- has experience is carrying out building maintenance tasks using hand and power tools
- can communicate effectively with staff, contractors and external agencies
- has good organisational, problem-solving and time management skills, with the ability to work independently
- Understands Health and Safety requirements and safe working practices, including basic compliance and risk management
- Can work flexibly and respond to occasional out-of-hours needs (e.g. emergencies, severe weather)
Desirable (training can be provided):
- knowledge of building regulations or technical maintenance tasks
- familiarity with compliance reporting software (e.g. Every)
- a general Health and Safety qualification or trade-level training
What we offer:
- a friendly, supportive and collaborative working environment
- opportunities for training, skill development and progression within the Trust
- membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- the chance the make a meaningful contribution to the safety and smooth running of our school
For an informal chat about the role please contact Mr M Shepherd, Site Manager, on mshepherd@northallerton-alt.uk or 01609 773340.
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
- Health, happiness and wellbeing
- A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
- A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
- High standards and expectations
- Integrity, kindness and good manners
- Respect for individuality and difference
- Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why work for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
- Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
- Are committed to our Trust values.
- Show initiative and are responsive to change.
- Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
- Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
- Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
- Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
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 Northallerton School & Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1037 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Northallerton School & Sixth Form College website
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