Site Manager
Edith Moorhouse Primary School, Carterton, Oxfordshire, OX18 3HPThis job expired on 22 August 2024
Start date details
1st September or sooner
Closing date
22 August 2024 at 10am
Date listed
19 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,702.00 - £26,873.00 Annually (FTE)
Site Manager job summary
Edith Moorhouse Primary school is seeking to appoint a practical person who has had experience of working within a premises/site related role, preferably in a school, has knowledge of health and safety procedures and record keeping and is confident dealing with contractors.
You would thrive at Edith Moorhouse if you are a person who:
- Is passionate about safety, security and site management;
- Has good standard of DIY/maintenance skills;
- Has good decision-making skills a pro-active attitude and can ‘think on their feet’;
- Has high standards and takes pride in their surroundings
- Conducts themselves with a positive and professional manner at all times especially working around children;
- Has sound IT skills and is happy to use IT packages to support their working practices;
- Relishes in opportunities to develop your own practice through CPD;
- Enjoys working as part of a team;
- Recognises the importance of great relationships with contractors, colleagues, pupils and parents.
Duties will include:
- Take responsibility for the efficient operation and day to day management of the school site including site security, on-going maintenance, cleaning, health and safety procedures and paper/online record keeping, site inspections and contractor visits.
- Act as first point of contact for all contractor bookings and visits from regular scheduled visits to ad-hoc emergency bookings.
- Liaise regularly with the school business manager to ensure that larger scale issues are efficiently managed and dealt with.
- Management of other site staff including cleaners.
- Site Security: Lock/unlock school building areas for pupils and staff at the beginning and end of every school day, depending on the working hours agreed.
- Promote positive values, attitudes and good behaviour from pupils and parents/carers around the school site.
- If appropriate, deal promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and/or report any concerns or incidents to the appropriate person.
- Comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, safeguarding, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
- Liaise sensitively and effectively with colleagues, pupils and parents/carers as agreed with the School Business Manager.
- Attend and participate in regular meetings if required.
- Participate in training and other learning activities as required.
- To undertake other duties, appropriate to the grade, as may reasonably be required by the Head teacher.
The role is being advertised part-time up to full-time so please state your preference in hours in your application. We could adapt the role for the right candidate. The contract is over 52 weeks and will include holiday and bank holidays.
If you would like more information or a visit to the school we would welcome this. Please email helensmith@edithmoorhouse.org to arrange this.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The River Learning Trust and Edith Moorhouse Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.
About Edith Moorhouse Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 355 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
We are a popular primary school in the Oxfordshire town of Carterton, close to RAF Brize Norton. Visitors to our school often comment on the calm and friendly atmosphere, and our children are happy and enjoy their learning. As a school we have worked really hard over the past few years to build a strong and committed team with the capacity to improve the outcomes for our pupils. We are proud to be an academy as part of The River Learning Trust. We feel very strongly that our school team, along with the wider family of the River Learning Trust, is what makes our school successful.
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