Site Services / Facilities Assistant
Wycombe High School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 1TB40 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37.5 hours per week preferred, (plus some paid additional hours required) but we are 'happy to talk flexible working'
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Approximately £27,000 per annum
Pay scale
- Bucks Pay Scale
Additional allowances
Extremely generous employer pension contributions (22.1%)
Employee Assistance Programme
Mind Wellbeing Index Gold Award winners
National Whole School Wellbeing Gold Award 2024
Voted: Sunday Times 'Secondary School of the Year' in 2023
What skills and experience we're looking for
Wycombe High School is seeking to appoint someone with a 'can do' attitude to join our Site Services team, due to the forthcoming retirement of one of the team members. Experience of working in an educational environment would be desirable, but is not essential.
The Site Services Assistant will play a crucial role in maintaining the school’s facilities, ensuring a safe, clean and conducive environment for learning. This role involves a variety of tasks including site maintenance, key-holder duties and supporting the overall functionality of the school premises.
The successful candidate will undertake general porterage duties, including deliveries, moving furniture and equipment within the school, plus setting up for various events and de-rigging.
They will be able to undertake minor repairs and maintenance of fixtures, fittings, buildings and the site. Training will be given for the postholder to drive the school minibus. The full job description can be found on our website.
The characteristics that we are looking for include:
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Responsible and trustworthy, as the postholder will be a keyholder
The ability to undertake minor repairs and maintenance of fixtures and fittings onsite
A hands-on approach, able to operate systems such as building management system, heating, hot water, cooling, lighting, Paxton controlled automated gates, CCTV, and requests via the Helpdesk
Good interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with staff, visitors and contractors across the site
Ability to relate well to adults and young people
A shared approach to problem-solving skills and achieving goals
Proactive and able to use initiative
Experience of working in a busy, people-based environment
Planning and organising skills
Committed to the ethos, vision and values of Wycombe High School.
What the school offers its staff
Cycle to work scheme
Very generous employer pension contributions (22.1%)
Free onsite parking
Flexible working opportunities
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
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About Wycombe High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1322 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wycombe High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@whs.bucks.sch.uk
Wycombe High School is a girls’ selective state academy school with 1304 students on roll, of whom around 400 are in the Sixth Form. Each year 192 girls are admitted into Year 7. All students are assigned to a vertical tutor group consisting of about 21 students; usually three students from each year. group There are six houses with 10 tutor groups in each house. Our school is part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust.
The school has educated girls of High Wycombe for over a hundred years and is very highly regarded in the local and wider community. There is a strong and shared sense of community and collective pride, built on core values. Parental support is strong. We have excellent links with other local schools, colleges and universities. We have a knowledgeable and supportive Governing Body fully involved with all aspects of school life, and an enthusiastic and active Parents and Friends Association.
Our staff are professional, forward-looking and committed to extending the horizons of our students, encouraging them to aim high, to take on leadership roles and to become independent learners. We have an ambitious development plan, with a focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning, both within and beyond the classroom.
We are a National Support School, a Teaching School and one of 35 Mathematics Hubs nationally. We are delighted to have been recently designated as a National Mathematics and Physics SCITT in 2017 and have strong community partnerships. We have invested substantially in IT systems and training. We also have an outstanding reputation for the performing and visual arts. Numerous educational visits take place each year and for every age group, at home and abroad.
Our school motto summarises our ethos and sense of community. All those who study, work at, or send their children to our school are part of this community and are role models for our ethos.
Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter
(Courageously, Faithfully, Joyfully)
Courageously:
Each student is encouraged to embrace our core values of honesty, respect and hard work. She is encouraged to speak out against injustice, supported to take risks, and is not afraid of failure. She learns new subjects and skills. She pushes herself to her personal limits and beyond. She is encouraged to listen to the opinions of others, as well as to voice her own. She accepts responsibility for herself and other students. She leads the school in partnership with staff and the governing body. She is independent and innovative in thought and action.
Faithfully:
Every student is expected to uphold our school rules and traditions. She acts with integrity and is truthful and honest in all she does. She keeps promises and is reliable. She works hard to achieve her full potential. Above all she is a good friend, a good neighbour and a good citizen. She contributes positively to school life and society.
Joyfully:
All our students contribute to making our school the happy and joyful place it is. Each student demonstrates mutual respect and empathy for all and is proud of her own achievements and those of others. She shows commitment to a fair and peaceful community and embraces diversity. Our students are happy and positive in approach, and support others to be the same.
As an immediate adopter of the Early Career Framework, any NQT applying will be guaranteed two years on a reduced timetable, a dedicated mentor and access to an exceptional career development programme.
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