Site and School Assistant
Faraday School
Tower Hamlets
- £15 per hour
- Expired
- Salary:
- Option for salaried contract after successful 2 term - probation
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 4 August 2024
Job overview
Faraday School has an exciting opportunity for a friendly, reliable, and approachable Sites Assistant to join our support team.
As Sites Assistant, working with the Sites Manager you will play a key role in maintaining the smooth operation of our school, helping ensure the school site and buildings are well maintained, in good repair, and with high standards of cleanliness and tidiness. We are seeking a proactive and flexible candidate with a diverse skill set, including practical and DIY skills, combined with a keen attention to detail and an ability to use their initiative.
The Sites Assistant will also support the Sites Manager with ensuring health and safety standards are complied with, porterage duties, and end of-year tasks such as assisting staff with the moving classrooms and site improvement projects.
During the middle of the day the assistant will provide support for play and lunchtime sessions helping supervise the pupils with kindness and flexibility during our busiest times.
Faraday is a warm, vibrant, expanding, and successful, coeducational independent prep school for children aged 4-11 in East London, Situated on the banks of the Thames at Trinity Buoy Wharf It Is in a truly magical and unique location. There are many good reasons to work with us. The school and the wharf have a real sense of community, and you’ll be part of it. We also offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Discounted hot lunches
- Comprehensive staff well-being cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Professional development and training opportunities
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Good written and verbal English
- Caretaking / Sites management experience
- Initiative and strong organisational skills, prepared to do day to day tasks and a proactive approach.
- Ability to work efficiently and constructively within a small team
- Experience of the education sector and working with children would be helpful.
- DIY skills and experience to include plumbing.
- Comfortable using IT systems, emails.
- Willingness to undergo training as required.
NMS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening and DBS checks.
Apply today with an up to date CV. CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with shortlisting beginning on Monday, July 15th. Early applications are encouraged. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted to arrange interviews on an ongoing basis.
Attached documents
About Faraday School
Founded in 2009, Faraday is a small, happy and vibrant independent primary school in East London. The school's unique riverside location, in the historic and artistic Trinity Buoy Wharf, provides a magical environment and access to a stimulating, creative community that offers exciting learning opportunities for the pupils and staff.
We are committed to giving every child a first-class education, with small classes, quality teaching and a personal approach in a caring and kind environment. In these formative years we develop resilience and inspire a love of learning and hope that this desire to explore, grow and create will stay with our pupils for life. We place a strong focus on literacy and numeracy, with a targeted approach that enables each child to achieve their best, With our rich and broad curriculum and extra curricular activities, many pupils receive scholarships to secondary schools of their choice.
Our children come from the Tower Hamlets, Newham and Greenwich areas, and beyond, with a school bus providing easy access to the school.
Headteacher
Lucas Motion, BA Acting, PGCE QTS
ISI
In November 2022, Faraday had a combined Focused Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection. The Independent Schools Inspectorate judged the school to be fully compliant and judged the Educational Quality at Faraday to be Excellent in both the quality of the pupils’ academic achievements and the quality of the pupils’ personal development.
This is equivalent to the highest Ofsted rating of ‘Outstanding’ and acknowledges the school’s strength in academic success and its commitment to children’s wellbeing.
Key findings are summarised below:
Academic and other achievements:
- Pupils, including children in EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage), attain well above age-related expectations
- Pupils’ subject knowledge, skills and understanding are outstanding
- Pupils display exemplary attitudes to learning and achievement.
Personal development:
Pupils exhibit substantial self-confidence and perseverance
- Pupils display advanced spiritual awareness for their age; they reflect on philosophical and spiritual ideas with maturity
- Pupils display excellent moral understanding and behaviour
- Pupils exhibit extremely strong understanding of how to keep themselves safe and look after their mental wellbeing.
‘Leaders and Staff promote and model the school’s values of kindness, respect and honesty consistently and effectively’ is one of many references praising the leadership and staff and the report refers to parents views including how they agreed with the inspectors that the school;
‘equips their children with team work, and research skills they need later in life’ and ‘helps their children be confident and independent’.
The inspectors also highlight how the ‘pupils’ academic and non-academic achievements are outstanding for the size of the school’ noting that several leavers have achieved art, drama and academic scholarships to senior schools with individual success at national level in gymnastics, football, singing and professional theatre.
‘The school fully meets its aim’ is suffixed with numerous affirmations of the school’s benefits including ‘to enable pupils to grow towards maturity and confidence’; ‘to instil habits of good behaviour from an early age’; ‘to teach pupils in a way that allows them to fulfil their potential’; ‘to inspire pupils; and ‘to deliver value for money’.
The School passed the Compliance Inspection where judgements are given either ‘met’ or ‘not met’ and all standards must be met to pass.
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