Assistant Caretaker - Lettings

Thames Park Secondary School; Grays; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package up to £8,000

SLT support

Work-life balance

Career progression across the Trust

CPD opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

National Conditions of Service

LGPS enrolment

Job summary

Thames Park Secondary School in Grays is seeking an enthusiastic Evening Assistant Caretaker to join the site team. You will support lettings, act as the hirers' contact and help secure and maintain the school site.

The role runs 25 hours per week, including Saturdays, with duties across cleaning, maintenance and security under the Site Manager. The ideal candidate will have initiative, good DIY skills, physical fitness for lifting and a willingness to participate in training.

Qualifications

• Ability to use your own initiative and prioritise workload to keep the site safe.
• Good DIY skills.
• Physical fitness for heavy lifting, moving and handling.
• Willingness to participate in training and development.

Responsibilities

• Support the school facility lettings and be point of contact for hirers.
• Lock the school site at the end of the day and undertake caretaking duties.
• Carry out cleaning, maintenance and site security under the Site Manager.

Skills

Initiative

DIY skills

Physical fitness

Willingness to training

Job description

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, pro-active, and hardworking Evening Assistant Caretaker, to join our school as part of the site team to support the school facility lettings. The successful candidate will additionally contribute to the safety, appearance and upkeep of the school. The role is for 25 hours per week, including Saturday's. The successful candidate will be involved in the after-school lettings, be the point of contact for the hirers and resolving any issues that may arise. They will also be responsible for locking the school site at the end of the day, and will also undertake general caretaking duties including cleaning, maintenance and security of the site and will work under the direction of our Site Manager. The successful candidates will need to have: Enthusiasm for maintaining a school environment to a high standard to support children's learning., Welcome to Thames Park Secondary School, where we strive to provide an outstanding education for all our pupils. We aim to provide pupils with a digital-focused education to guide their academic learning and prepare them for the future. Our school has a clear set of co-operative values, self-help, self-responsibility, equity, equality, democracy, and solidarity. These values underpin everything we do. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.Documents Please be aware that some uploaded documents may require special software such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

Recruitment and Selection Policy

Person Specification

• The ability to use your own initiative, be able to prioritise your workload and work effectively as part of a team that looks after the safety and welfare of the site.
• Good DIY skills.
• A physical fitness to undertake some heavy lifting, moving, and handling.
• A willingness to participate in training and development.

Thames Park Secondary School opened in September 2020 in Thurrock and moved to our state-of-the-art facilities in 2022 in north Grays. Thames Park Secondary Schoolaims to provide an outstanding education for all its students. We have a strong focus on digital education running throughout our curriculum and are passionate about making our learning both exciting and memorable. We are a school which is firmly rooted in serving our community. We are proud to be an inclusive co-educational comprehensive school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. We measure our success by much more than exam results as we recognise that such data tells only a part of the story of each of our young people. Thames Park is already a great place to teach and learn and we have many strengths including

• Motivated and polite pupils, who have a strong voice in the school with diversity champions and student parliament
• Staff are aided by extensive and wide-ranging in-house support and coaching, by dedicated and helpful colleagues
• Knowledgeable and dynamic Trust with supportive governors, with a robust understanding of education

Thames Park Secondary School is a member of Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. Osborne Co-operative Academy Trustis a Multi-Academy Trust, withtwelve member schoolswithin Essex. All schools in the Trust work in equal partnership and are members of the schools' Co-operative Society. Our Co-operative Values focus on enabling all students to achieve their potential both academically and as young people.

What the school can offer:

• Relocation package of up to£8,000where applicable, for new employeesrentingorbuyinga property
• Support from highly experienced SLT members and the wider trust network
• Support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance
• Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
• Excellent CPD opportunities through the school and the trust
• Fully Subsidised Employee Assistance Programme
• Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
• Recognised National Conditions of Service
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme