Site Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Whitmore; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Parish CE Primary School is seeking a maintenance assistant to support the Site Manager in keeping the school site safe, clean, and well-ordered. The role involves carrying out maintenance and repairs under direction, assisting with porterage and lettings duties, and helping ensure health and safety and COSHH compliance.

Additionally, you will act as a keyholder responsible for school security, daily lock-up, and cover arrangements.

Qualifications

• Flexible attitude.
• Friendly and outgoing personality.
• Excellent team player.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Has experience of carrying out basic DIY tasks (Essential).
• Able to follow and give clear instructions.
• Experience of a similar background is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Site Manager to keep the school site safe, clean and orderly.
• Undertake maintenance and repairs under the Site Manager's direction, ensuring timely completion.
• Support site management tasks, including porterage and lettings duties.
• Assist to ensure Health and Safety and COSHH procedures are followed.
• Act as a keyholder responsible for school security, daily lock up and cover.

Skills

Flexible attitude

Friendly personality

Team player

Time management

Basic DIY

Follow instructions

Experience background desirable

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job purpose

• Assist the Site Manager in ensuring that the school site is maintained in a safe, clean and orderly condition.
• Undertake maintenance and repair work, following the direction of the Site Manager, and making sure that any repairs are properly and promptly carried out.
• Assist in such tasks as may be necessary for effective site management, including various porterage and lettings duties.
• Assist in ensuring strict adherence to all procedures including Health and Safety requirements and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations.
• Assist As a keyholder to be responsible for the security of the school premises, including daily lock up and cover leave.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have a flexible attitude.
• Friendly and outgoing personality.
• Excellent team player.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Has experience of carrying out basic DIY tasks (Essential).
• Able to follow and give clear instructions.
• Experience of a similar background is desirable but not essential.

What the school offers its staff

In return, we offer:

• a commitment to your ongoing professional development through training, coaching and
• a school in which the pupils are polite, enthusiastic and keen learners;
• a caring staff who are dedicated to learning and to supporting each other;
• a unique environment ranging from purpose-built classrooms to a Grade 2* listed mansion building, a forest school and a large school field.

Commitment to safeguarding

Parish CE Primary School is committed to safeguarding the young people in our care and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check. As an employee of the Aquinas Church of England Education Trust you are required to have regard to the character of the Trust and its foundation and to undertake not to do anything in any way contrary to the interests of the foundation.