Grounds Person
Bedford School
Bedford
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 26 October 2024
Job overview
Bedford School is seeking an enthusiastic Grounds Person to join their Grounds Team.
We are continuously exploring opportunities to enhance our grounds facilities.
As a Grounds Person at Bedford School, you will play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of our school's outdoor facilities, ensuring a safe and aesthetically pleasing environment for students and staff.
Your primary responsibilities will include assisting with the preparation and maintenance of playing fields, sports pitches, artificial surfaces, and grounds throughout the school.
We are committed to fostering continuous learning and growth within our team. You will have the opportunity to learn new processes and skills, and we encourage participation in training programs. Our supportive environment is designed to help you excel and advance your career.
39 hours per week all year round (seasonal hours):
October to March: 7:30 am to 2:45 pm, Monday to Thursday, 7:30 am to 2.00 pm Friday.
April to September: 7:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday
Closing Date: Saturday 26th October 2024
Interview date: TBC
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. Interviews will be arranged with candidates at a mutually convenient time therefore, early applications are encouraged.
Closing date: 26th October 2024
Interview Date: TBC
The Harpur Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other checks. The school may also undertake online checks for short listed candidates.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of
attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust
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About Bedford School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply ‘be’ together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.
Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages – there is no ‘typical’ Bedford student.
Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.
Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.
Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.
Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of ‘sport for all’ and we regularly field E and F teams.
We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.
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