Site Assistant - Part Time 15 hrs (Monday - Friday)
Riverside Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 8ET25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
13 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 July 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
- £9,983.00 - £11,055.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade D2 Point 4-11
Site Assistant - Part Time 15 hrs (Monday - Friday) job summary
Salary: NJC Grade D2 Point 4-11 £9,983 - £11,055 per annum
Hours: 15 hours per week, All Year Round (52 Weeks)
Required: September 2025
We are seeking a reliable and proactive Site Assistantto join our friendly and supportive team at Riverside Primary School. This is a key role in helping to maintain a safe, clean, and secure environment for our pupils, staff, and visitors and relevant previous experience is essential. Shift patterns may vary between mornings and afternoons.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist the Site Manager in ensuring that the school buildings, grounds, and extended facilities are well-maintained, secure, and presentable at all times.
- Support the coordination and implementation of health and safety procedures, ensuring all regulations are met and adhered to across the school site.
- Contribute to the overall ethos, values, and aims of the school community, working collaboratively with all staff.
- Responsibility for opening and locking the school premises on a daily basis as the designated key holder.
Riverside Primary School:
We are a popular, mainstream community school, which is part of Rainham Mark Education Trust. The school had a good Ofsted Inspection in November 2019, and was recognised as being Outstanding in the areas of Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development. The key values held by our school community add to the success and inclusive nature of the school. These values are Curiosity, Happiness, Aspiration, Respect, Articulacy, Community, Teamwork, Equality and Resilience – ‘Character’.
The school has two integrated special provisions for a small number of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Visual Impairment, who are taught in the mainstream classes with appropriate support.
A visit to the school is highly recommended, please call 01634 623500 to make an appointment.
Benefits of Working for Rainham Mark Education Trust:
- Free Health Checks
- Free Flu Jabs
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- High quality CPD opportunities
- Discounted gym membership at Avenue Tennis, Gillingham
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Onsite free parking
- A Trust committed to achieving a healthy work/life balance
Please note if you have previously applied for this role, please only reapply if your experience or circumstances have changed.
If this challenge excites you, please apply via My New Term.
Closing date: 13th August 2025 at 12pm
Interview date: Week Commencing 25th August 2025
This vacancy will close on or before the specified closing date depending on the volume of suitable applicants. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short listed on this occasion. We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.
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 Riverside Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 449 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Riverside Primary School website
School location
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