Site Supervisor - Driver
Tor View School, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 6LR12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 21391 - 21730
Site Supervisor - Driver job summary
Site Supervisor & Driver (Grade C)
We are seeking to appoint a dedicated and proactive combined role of Site Supervisor and Driver to join our site team. The post holder will be required to work from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Monday through Thursday, and 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM on Fridays. The Site Supervisor role is essential in ensuring that the school environment remains clean, safe, and well-maintained for pupils, staff, and visitors. This combined role also requires a reliable and safety-conscious individual to provide essential transport services for the school. This involves transporting pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). As the role entails performing minibus duties, the candidate must possess a D1 license to fulfill their responsibilities as a driver.
Key Responsibilities Site Supervisor:
- Supervise and coordinate cleaning staff to maintain high standards of cleanliness.
- Work collaboratively with the site team to ensure the school buildings and grounds are well maintained.
- Carry out minor repairs and general maintenance tasks, such as replacing light bulbs, fixing door handles, and unblocking sinks.
- Ensure the effective operation of heating, lighting, and security systems.
- Maintain outdoor areas, including clearing pathways, managing waste disposal, and ensuring playgrounds and car parks are safe.
- Manage stock levels and ensure cleaning supplies and equipment are replenished as needed.
- Act as a key holder, responsible for securing the premises and responding to any emergencies.
- Ensure all health and safety regulations are followed, including COSHH requirements.
- Support with deep cleaning and site maintenance during school closures or holiday periods.
This role requires a strong team player who can work collaboratively with colleagues to maintain a high standard of site management.
Key Responsibilities Driver:
- Drive a range of vehicles, including specially adapted and commercial vehicles, ensuring safe and efficient transport of pupils and staff.
- Carry out daily vehicle safety checks and basic maintenance to ensure vehicles remain roadworthy and clean.
- Assist passengers, including securing wheelchairs and supporting safe entry and exit from the vehicle.
- Load and unload goods safely, utilising lifting equipment when necessary.
- Report any vehicle defects, incidents, or mechanical issues in accordance with school procedures.
- Maintain accurate records and complete necessary paperwork.
- Support school trips and community activities as required.
- Adhere to safeguarding procedures and promote pupil well-being at all times.
The successful candidate will work closely with the premises and wider school team, ensuring efficient transport services and contributing to the smooth day-to-day operation of the school.
A specialist driving license is required, and local area knowledge is beneficial. Further details of the role can be found in the SVT – Premises 3 & Driver Grade C Job description available in this advert.
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 are not accepted.
About Tor View School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 260 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tor View School website
Tor View is an all through school, providing an ‘Outstanding’ education for children and young adults, aged 3 – 19 with a wide range of educational needs. Predominantly, we specialise in teaching children with learning difficulties, either moderate (MLD), severe (SLD) or profound and multiple (PMLD); many of our children have accompanying conditions such as Autism, Down Syndrome or Cerebral Palsy. All of our children attend school because they have complex and lifelong learning disabilities which means they need an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Tor View School is very well equipped and benefits from a range of multi-sensory rooms, a hydrotherapy pool and a therapy dog, Ruby. Throughout the school, provision is made for pupils with additional needs arising from physical disabilities, sensory impairments and specific conditions including Autistic Spectrum Condition. In addition, the Academy has a specialist resource, the Intensive Support Centre (ISC) which accommodates young people with complex needs arising from behavioural and communication difficulties. Tor View also has a café, The Garage Café, which is open to the public and provides the learners with valuable work experience. As well as providing an ‘Outstanding’ education for its learners, Tor View is also a National Support School, has been a Teaching School since 2013 and has recently been designated as a Teaching School Hub.
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