Site Assistant - Part Time

Riverside Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 8ET

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  July 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 June 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 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: July 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. 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

If this challenge excites you, please apply via My New Term.

Closing date: 11th July 2025 at 12pm

Interview date: TBC

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.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Riverside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 442 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Riverside Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverside-primary-school-gillingham

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