Sports Centre & Lettings Duty Manager
St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4TD28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP - subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 8am
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Sports Centre and Lettings
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,115.00 - £29,330.00 Annually (FTE) H5 Grade
Sports Centre & Lettings Duty Manager job summary
About St George's Lettings
St George’s School is a large, day and boarding school occupying an attractive open site in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Our facilities include a Sports Centre, Fitness Suite, Gymnasium, Drama Studio, Assembly Hall, Old Library, Chapel, Boarding Houses, meeting and class rooms, as well as Rugby, Lacrosse and Cricket pitches. Our main facilities are available to hire on both weeknights and weekends and throughout school holidays. Our Boarding Houses are available to hire during the school holidays on a fully catered basis. We are also able to provide catering for our hirers on request.
Further information about our Lettings activities can be found via: www.stgeorges.herts.sch.uk/lettings
About the Role
We are looking for a professional, friendly and flexible person to facilitate day-to-day operation of all Sports Centre and Lettings activities.
The ideal candidate will be proactive, possess strong customer service skills and have the knowledge and experience of setting up sports equipment. The postholder is required to work evenings and weekends on a rota basis.
Full-time or part-time hours could be considered for the right candidate. If you wish to apply on a part-time basis, please specify this on your application.
Please refer to the Application Pack and Job Description for details of the role.
We can offer:
- Additional training and support
- Ongoing professional development
- Free Lunch on working days
- Free parking on school site
- Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym
- Staff Wellbeing Programme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy
Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.
Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)
St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
Online Searches
We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.
Right to work in UK
We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.
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 St George's School
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1384 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St George's School website
DO YOU WANT TO WORK WHERE YOU FEEL YOU BELONG?
TEN GREAT REASONS TO JOIN THE ST GEORGE'S TEAM
1. Be part of a vibrant, inspiring and supportive team
2. Everyone’s contributions are valued and encouraged
3. A place where your work will ‘make a difference’ and be appreciated by pupils
4. Learning is what we do; with passion
5. Unique opportunity to work in one of the leading state boarding schools in the country
6. Students champion and promote our community’s high standards and aspirations
7. Excellent behaviour is the norm, not the exception
8. Career development is encouraged and supported through great training
9. A sense of belonging; part of a community and the St George’s ‘Family’
10. Where the worst thing about work is going home at night
Working at St George’s also comes with a number of free additional fringe benefits*: childcare voucher scheme; Employee Assistance Programme; on-site parking; access to excellent sports and fitness facilities and provision of lunch. On-site accommodation for specific posts may also available at reduced rates.
* Staff terms and conditions are liable to review and change from time to time
In 2014 OFSTED wrote that "This school has got the magic formula", and we have to say we agree!
St George’s is a unique place to work. It is the perfect blend of high quality, innovative teaching and a community which cares. It has a highly supportive pastoral system as well as a residential state boarding community, all of which is firmly cemented in our Christian principles and strong commitment to our values of mutual respect, endeavour and sense of community. We hold on to our tradition and embrace the future with equal relish.
St George’s is consistently in the top percentile of schools nationally for academic performance and rated outstanding by Ofsted. However we are not driven by such external measures but by our passion to provide the best learning and life experience we can for the pupils entrusted to our care.
We hope that you will share our enthusiasm and drive to continue to make St George’s an exciting place to work and learn.
Join us for a career at a school that certainly wants us to "Aim Higher".
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