Site Officer
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As Soon As
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 10am
Date listed
11 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,535.00 - £33,987.00 Annually (Actual) Scale 5 (Point 12 (£32,535) – Point (£33,987)
Site Officer job summary
Site Officer (General Maintenance/Handy Person)
Shift/Flexible working, 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week.
Over 7 days Sunday to Monday.
Scale 5 (Point 12 (£32,535) - Point (£33,987)
Permanent
Shift/Flexible working, 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week (between 05:30-22:00). over 7 days Sunday to Monday.
Are you motivated and driven with a strong work ethic and a background in building maintenance and/or facilities support?
Do you relish a challenge and like to be kept on your toes? Do you take pride in your work and enjoy undertaking maintenance and practical work?
If so, this may be the opportunity you are looking for….
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive Site Officer who will help improve standards of maintenance and work as part of our site team. You will have high standards, excellent communication skills and be driven to provide a first-class service.
Barking Abbey School are seeking a committed, reliable, and enthusiastic Site Officer and General Handy person who would be available to work at either our Longbridge Road or Sandringham Road Campus, both based in Barking, East London.
In this role you along with other site officers will be responsible for making sure that the school environment is safe, well maintained and comfortable for all students, staff and visitors working within a team of six staff working across two campuses.
This is an exciting time to Join Barking Abbey School and a fantastic opportunity for someone with general maintenance, communication and organisational skills who would like to within the education sector and make a difference to the life of our students by making sure our learning environment is the best it can be.
You will work 7 hours a day, between the hours of 06.00 and 10pm for five days a week over 7 days. Shifts and working days to be agreed in advance with employees.
This role is within the site services team which is part of the Schools wider central core team encompassing all business support services. Including, Exams, HR, Finance, Administration, Catering and IT.
Having now reached our final year of growth and expansion we are looking to improve, develop and streamline our facilities management services and processes to ultimately impact upon the outcomes for our students.
The successful candidate will:
Have relevant experience, skills and/or qualifications.
Be enthusiastic, have great communication skills both written and verbally, and time management skills.
Be passionate about fixing things and maintaining buildings.
Always work to deliver an outstanding service.
Have an eye for detail.
Be Self-motivated and driven.
Enjoy working in a busy environment and keeping active.
Lead by example and lead with the highest professional standards and expectations.
Be responsible for the security and maintenance of school buildings.
Be responsible for undertaking repairs and maintenance tasks.
Be responsible for performing security checks for the buildings in their care.
Oversee the cleaning of the school site.
Carry out caretaking and manual handling duties as required to ensure the needs of the school are met including moving furniture, equipment, setting out of spaces around the building for example.
Comply with the policies and procedures of the organisation regarding safeguarding and welfare of children.
In return we can offer:
A good school with outstanding features (OFSTED 2017).
A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop
their talents.
A supportive and encouraging staff team.
Great Career development opportunities.
Onsite training development and support.
The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school.
A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management.
Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed dual Campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and has a well-deserved reputation for its friendly and supportive atmosphere and its excellent academic achievements.
The school is located less than 10 minutes’ walk from Upney tube station and Barking mainline station (25 minutes from Liverpool Street).
As a maintained school we offer our staff great terms and conditions and Local Government employee benefits, such as a generous annual holiday entitlement, a great Local government pension scheme, access to our employee assistance programme and much more.
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:www.barkingabbeyschool/join-us/staff-vacancies
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 Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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