Senior Groundsperson
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Westminster School
Westminster
- £34,000 per year
- New
- Salary:
- £34,000 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 August 2024
Job overview
Westminster School is seeking an experienced Groundsperson to play a key role maintaining the school’s playing surfaces and surrounding areas to the highest of standards.
Working under the supervision of the Head Groundsperson, you will undertake a variety of grounds maintenance duties, marking and overmarking sports areas and maintaining artificial playing areas.
You will also undertake horticultural operations (e.g. ground preparation, planting, turfing, seeding and pruning) as well as be responsible for the setting up, dismantling and maintenance of sports equipment.
In the absence of the Head Groundsperson, you will liaise closely with games staff and external parties to ensure the availability of sports pitches and equipment.
You will need a Level 2 GMA Technical Certificate in Turf Surface Maintenance (or equivalent) in addition to experience of grounds maintenance and an understanding of health and safety.
About the school
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the school has a special atmosphere.
We offer a variety of benefits, including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and discretionary Christmas stand-down period. Leave should be taken when convenient with the workload and deadlines
- Pension – contributory defined contribution scheme
- Free school lunch is provided
- Use of school gym (restricted hours)
- Private medical cover (opt-in)
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
The deadline for applications is 09:00am on Friday 9th August 2024.
Interviews will take place w/c Monday 12th August 2024.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The school is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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