Site Officer
Barking Abbey School
Barking and Dagenham
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Scale 5 Pt 12-15( £30,033-£31,440)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2024
Job overview
Site Officer (General Maintenance/Handy Person)
Shift/Flexible working, 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week.
Over 7 days Sunday to Monday.
Permanent , Full time or Part time considered.
Shift/Flexible working, 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week. over 7 days Sunday to Monday.
Are you motivated and driven with a strong work ethic and a background in building maintenance and/or facilities support?
Do you relish a challenge and like to be kept on your toes? Do you take pride in your work and enjoy undertaking maintenance and practical work?
If so, this may be the opportunity you are looking for….
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive Site Officer who will help improve standards of maintenance and work as part of our site team. You will have high standards, excellent communication skills and be driven to provide a first-class service.
Barking Abbey School are seeking a committed, reliable, and enthusiastic Site Officer and General Handy person who would be available to work at either our Longbridge Road or Sandringham Road Campus, both based in Barking, East London.
In this role you along with other site officers will be responsible for making sure that the school environment is safe, well maintained and comfortable for all students, staff and visitors working within a team of six staff working across two campuses.
This is an exciting time to Join Barking Abbey School and a fantastic opportunity for someone with general maintenance, communication and organisational skills who would like to within the education sector and make a difference to the life of our students by making sure our learning environment is the best it can be.
You will work 7 hours a day, between the hours of 06.00 and 10pm for five days a week over 7 days. Shifts and working days to be agreed in advance with employees.
This role is within the site services team which is part of the Schools wider central core team encompassing all business support services. Including, Exams, HR, Finance, Administration, Catering and IT.
Having now reached our final year of growth and expansion we are looking to improve, develop and streamline our facilities management services and processes to ultimately impact upon the outcomes for our students.
The successful candidate will:
• Have relevant experience, skills and/or qualifications.
• Be enthusiastic, have great communication skills both written and verbally, and time management skills.
• Be passionate about fixing things and maintaining buildings.
• Always work to deliver an outstanding service.
• Have an eye for detail.
• Be Self-motivated and driven.
• Enjoy working in a busy environment and keeping active.
• Lead by example and lead with the highest professional standards and expectations.
• Be responsible for the security and maintenance of school buildings.
• Be responsible for undertaking repairs and maintenance tasks.
• Be responsible for performing security checks for the buildings in their care.
• Oversee the cleaning of the school site.
• Carry out caretaking and manual handling duties as required to ensure the needs of the school are met including moving furniture, equipment, setting out of spaces around the building for example.
• Comply with the policies and procedures of the organisation regarding safeguarding and welfare of children.
In return we can offer:
• A good school with outstanding features (OFSTED 2017).
• A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop
their talents.
• A supportive and encouraging staff team.
• Great Career development opportunities.
• Onsite training development and support.
• The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school.
• A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management.
Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed dual Campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and has a well-deserved reputation for its friendly and supportive atmosphere and its excellent academic achievements.
The school is located less than 10 minutes’ walk from Upney tube station and Barking mainline station (25 minutes from Liverpool Street).
As a maintained school we offer our staff great terms and conditions and Local Government employee benefits, such as a generous annual holiday entitlement, a great Local government pension scheme, access to our employee assistance programme and much more.
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:www.barkingabbeyschool/join-us/staff-vacancies
Attached documents
About Barking Abbey School
Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed split site secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, and has a well-deserved reputation for its friendly and supportive atmosphere and its excellent academic achievements. With a large KS5 provision and Additional Resourced Provisions (ARP) on each of our campuses, the school provides a varied role for the right individual.
Headteacher
Tony Roe
Values and vision
Our school motto is 'Give and Expect the Best' and we do this by living our values each and every day. Bravery, Excellence, Self-Discipline and teamwork.
Barking Abbey School aims to provide world-class teaching and learning to all its students. Staff strive to offer outstanding pastoral care, and to deliver an inclusive and challenging curriculum while offering regular and robust assessment. The secondary school also has a programme of high-quality enrichment classes.
Recruitment process
We serve a diverse community and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. We also welcome candidates with a non traditional background. The most important thing for us is your desire and ability to make a difference in young peoples lives.
Our recruitment process is fair and transparent and designed to get the best candidate for the role. A sample of our recruitment process is listed below
- Advert placed on TES, internally and in LBBD boards
- Blind shortlisting by a panel against the Job description. Potential applicants are scored. Shortlisting by at least 3 people including one SLT.
- Shortlist for interview based on scores from shortlisting.
- Interview process will depend on role and may include; lesson observations, data or admin tasks, panel interviews, student panels and a final interview
- All assessed tasks are scored according to set criteria and scores are moderated to ensure consistency.
- All panel interviews and final interviews are scored. Each interview has a moderation process to ensure consistency of scores where appropriate. Questions are common to all applicants.
- Feedback is provided by a member of the panel.
Ofsted report
A clear theme running through the school is the positive behaviour of pupils and their excellent attitudes to their work. Pupils are keen to do well and seize the opportunities given by teachers to work hard. They conduct themselves well around the school and are polite and respectful towards others. These attitudes have a strong impact on pupils' achievements because they enable learning to take place without undue interruption.
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