Senior Groundsperson
Lord Wandsworth College
Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Up to £28,840 depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 18 August 2024
Job overview
Department: Estates
Responsible to: Grounds Manager
Location: On Campus
Contract: Full-time, permanent, 52 weeks per year
Salary: Up to £28,840 per annum depending on experience
The Senior Groundsperson will report directly to the Grounds manager and be responsible for ensuring that the College’s extensive and varied sports fields and campus on 1200 acres continue to provide an attractive and inspiring setting for us all to enjoy.
The College continues to invest heavily in its outdoor spaces, including around 10HA of new sports pitches innovative irrigation systems and around £1m in state-of-the-art machinery.
You will assist the Grounds manager in maintaining the highest standards of playing surfaces, sports and amenity surfaces for the College. You will use your technical and detailed operational expertise to ensure safe and consistent quality playing surfaces are always available as required. This position will deputise in the absence of the Head Groundsperson.
Please be aware this is a physically demanding and active post.
We offer a great range of staff benefits including:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Fee remission for children
- Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
- State-of-the-art, restaurant-quality hot and cold food available (complimentary)
- Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
- Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
- Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
- Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
- Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please feel free to contact Tom Wood via woodt@lordwandsworth.org.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on Sunday 18th August 2024
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 28th August 2024.
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1922.
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About Lord Wandsworth College
- Lord Wandsworth College
- Long Sutton, Hook
- Hampshire
- RG29 1TB
- United Kingdom
Lord Wandsworth College is named after Baron Sydney Stern, a Liberal MP and the second son of a Jewish banker. Granted a peerage less than four years after winning the seat of Stowmarket in 1891, Stern took the title of Lord Wandsworth in reflection of his many links with the area. When he died in 1912 he left a generous bequest to educate the children of agricultural workers; children who had lost one or both parents and needed the support of a boarding environment. Lord Wandsworth’s Trustees purchased the site on which the College now stands and the first ‘Foundationers’ arrived in 1922, followed by fee-paying students in 1945. Our site houses the College buildings, our considerable facilities and Stern Farm. This arable farm provides a timely reminder of those early students and of the College’s agricultural heritage.
Today, Lord Wandsworth College is a successful, well-respected boarding and day school for 560 boys and girls aged from 11 to 18. Located in 1200 acres of rolling countryside on the North Hampshire/Surrey border, LWC offers a broad, well-balanced curriculum and an incredible range of sports, activities and co-curricular opportunities. Committed to upholding the wishes of Lord Wandsworth, every year the Lord Wandsworth Foundation offers a number of assisted ‘Foundation’ places to children who have lost the support of one or both parents and would benefit from an outstanding education in a caring, nurturing environment. Our Foundationers come from a very wide range of backgrounds and have faced difficult challenges in their personal lives; we are proud that our Foundation has such a positive impact on them as well as the friends, housemates and teammates who live and work alongside them.
We believe that cognitive ability is not the primary determining factor in the happiness, prosperity and positive contribution to society of our pupils. It is one’s character and application that really shape one’s destiny. At LWC we aim to establish a foundation upon which all pupils feel able to build a full and happy life. We want them to leave school with a better understanding of who they are, their strengths, moral values and aspirations. To achieve this we need to equip pupils with emotional intelligence and literacy, a growth mind-set and a schooling in the characteristics that allow a person to be a good, decent member of society. This is called our character education programme.
Character is who you are. It is what makes you…you. It is what you believe in and how you act with others and when you are on your own. It is your values and your virtues.
Every aspect of the delivery of the curriculum, co-curriculum and pastoral provision endeavours to imbue pupils with the following “moral” character attributes: Fairness, Generosity, Empathy, Gratitude, Loyalty, Courage. Learning and achievement will be rewarded emphasising Perseverance, Self-control, Engagement, Optimism, Curiosity and Creativity. These “performance” attributes are taught, monitored and developed by every member of staff in all areas of school life. By promoting character education, we give our pupils the best chance of realising their full potential.
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