Site Caretaker/Maintenance Person
Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
23 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade C, range 5-7 (Actual £23,500 - £24,294)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Working with other caretaking staff and/or cleaning staff to ensure that all cleaning and maintenance of the premises is to the standard required.
- Arranging access to the site, as required such as in the absence of the Senior Site Caretaker for external contractors.
- The cleaning of the premises to the standard required in line with the grading of this post, including in emergency situations.
- Maintenance tasks in line with the grading of this post.
- Carry out repairs and maintenance projects.
- Responsible for completing compliance checks as directed by the Site & Facilities Manager.
- To fully secure the premises to include checking that all doors are locked, windows are closed and alarms set as appropriate when the campus closes. This particularly applies during evening working.
- Checking for any damage, making said damage safe and reporting to the Site & Facilities Manager all aspects of graffiti, damage and vandalism.
- Throughout the shift checking of toilets, washrooms etc. and replenish toilet rolls, paper towels etc. as necessary.
- Checking of heating and lighting to ensure maximum efficiency.
- Maintenance of the external areas of the premises as directed by the Senior Site Caretaker in line with the grading of this post. To include pathways, driveways, steps and gullies, clearance of leaves and basic maintenance of surfaces to include weeding, salting and gritting.
- Carrying out litter duties at the direction of the Site & Facilities Manager.
- Availability to respond to emergency call-out in line with procedures as defined by the Senior Site Caretaker or the Site & Facilities Manager.
Health & Safety:
- Ensuring that all aspects of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) are followed at all times.
- To comply with specific health and safety guidance when carrying out role such as working at height, manual handling, safe working practices, the use of PPE etc.
- Work within the requirements of the Academy’s Health and Safety policy, performance standards, safe systems of work and procedures.
- To complete annual Health & Safety training as required.
Other job requirements:
- Act at all times in accordance with appropriate legislation and regulations, codes of practice, the provisions of the Academy’s constitution and its policies and procedures.
- To be active in your continued professional development and have an interest and ambition in improving their practice.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade of the post.
What the school offers its staff
Relationships & Culture
Building a positive culture underpins any successful school and we, therefore, work hard as a team to create a culture rooted in mutual respect, in which teachers can teach and students can learn. We believe that students should be Ready, Kind and Safe for learning and our Ten Habits of Excellence are explicitly taught through our pastoral curriculum. At Tor Bridge High, we pride ourselves on setting the highest of standards for our students and we uphold these through positive relationships that are built on trust, kindness and safety. Staff are supported through a consistent and centralised behaviour system underpinned by a dedicated pastoral team.
Continuing Professional Development
At both Tor Bridge High and the Ted Wragg Trust, we invest in our staff as part of our Trust ‘Grow Great People’ strategy. We are committed to growing you into the best leader possible and believe that staff development is fundamental to building a highly ambitious and aspirational school. Moreover, we are proud to have a staff body who have high expectations for themselves and who model these to our students in order to create the same culture at all levels. Staff are the most valuable asset within a school, thus, our second-to-none commitment to coaching encompasses both 'instructional coaching' for teaching and 'leadership coaching' to foster the development of our teams and the continuous improvement of our staff. At Tor Bridge High, there is a culture of feedback with an emphasis on self-reflection and impact. All staff receive personalised instructional coaching every two weeks. We want to create dynamic and innovative teams where staff are learning collaboratively from one another; we encourage staff to seek these opportunities both internally and externally and to deliberately incorporate evidence-informed practice into their teaching to improve our school performance.
Growth & Development
We believe passionately that every student will succeed through an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all students and through highly skilled adaptive teaching. Our curriculum is driven by academic rigour and powerful knowledge that prepares students for the rigours of future study and work. We are committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity through our curriculum. We have a centralised curriculum, collaborating across departments and other schools to both share resources and to avoid duplication and unnecessary work at all levels. We provide our curriculum teams with the autonomy to decide the very best curriculum to enable our learners to thrive and flourish. The centralised curriculum ensures that all students have an equity of experience and ensures that teachers are not burdened by daily planning; instead they can focus on adaptive teaching and meeting the needs of all learners, alongside reducing workload.
Community, Personal Development & Enrichment
Tor Bridge High is the heart of the community and therefore, we take pride in our responsibility to serving our local families through strengthening family and community engagement, and helping the community to access services and additional resources. We understand the social and economic challenges faced by the community and the impact these can have on our students and their families, and we believe that we have an important role to play in tackling inequality by working in close partnership with families and the wider community. Education is not simply a collection of grades obtained at the end of examinations; education is about holistic growth and cultural development. We aim to accelerate the personal growth of all students by providing them access to a range of experiences that may not otherwise be available to them. This includes trips to theatres, galleries and concerts; residential trips that develop character; sporting opportunities; charity expeditions abroad and so much more. Further growing the breadth of extra-curricular activities is important to fulfilling our vision to ensure that every single child has access to culturally rich experiences.
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.
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About Tor Bridge High
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1171 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Tor Bridge High website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- bgeorgiev@torbridge.net
- Phone number
- 01752207872
Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.
We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.
Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bgeorgiev@torbridge.net.
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