Site Maintenance Operative
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AH20 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
1 June 2025
Latest start date
27 June 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week 10.00am to 6.30pm Monday to Thursday, 10.00am to 6.00pm Friday - during term-time. Working pattern to be confirmed during non-term time. 23 days annual leave (April-March) (increasing to 28 days annual leave after 5 years’ service) + 10 Bank Holidays.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SCP 7-11 £25,584 - £27,269
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you have experience of building /maintenance or associated trade, thrive on variety and challenge? Are you are enthusiastic, flexible and reliable?
Then this will be the job for you.
We are seeking a hard-working and dedicated Site Maintenance Operative to join our busy Site Team. You will work individually or as part of a team, throughout the school to maintain the school site to a high standard.
We are proud to be Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025, Ranked No 1 in the North of England - The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2025.
If you are interested in this position then please visit the vacancies section of ourwebsite www.heckgrammar.co.uk/vacancies.
Completed applications should be sent by email to: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk.
What the school offers its staff
Pension Plan with Local Government Pension Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free On Site Parking
Free Flu Vaccinations
Further details about the role
We are looking for a Site Maintenance Operative who will maintain the school site to a high standard and assist the rest of the site staff in the smooth running of the school.
This is an important role in a high achieving grammar school; the post holder must beextremely reliable, flexible, efficient and effective.
The post holder will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the school siteensuring a high standard throughout.
Experience of working independently and in a team is an essential part of
the role; as isworking in adverse weather conditions.
Protection of children:
Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the
Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain convictions and cautions are‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of itsstudents and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in theSafeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1474 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heckmondwike Grammar School website
- Email address
- recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approx 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.
And for the second year running we are ranked No 2 in the North of England.
This is a fabulous accolade to the whole school community and just reward for years of hard work from staff, students and indeed parents.
The survey includes both GCSE and A level results and is nationally noted as a true measure of school performance using metrics of most interest to parents when selecting a school.
“Such accolades are very pleasing and we are delighted to be recognised, but they only come about because of the week in week out hard work from students and staff and I salute my colleagues and students, they are an exceptional team.” Mr Roberts, Headteacher.
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
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