Estates Operative
Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon
- Expired
- Salary:
- GDST Grade 3 Salary Band: £21,876 - £28,371pa
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 1 February 2019
Job overview
Hours (36 hours per week Monday to Friday, 1.30pm to 9.30pm, including breaks)
Holidays (30 days per annum plus bank holidays)
If you have experience of caretaking, premises management or building maintenance, this is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the security and maintenance of one of the leading schools in the UK.
You will be based at our central Wimbledon site, complete with original Victorian red-brick buildings, sitting alongside purpose built facilities such as a sports centre, Science labs and studios. Working with the team of Estates Operatives, you will be responsible for the security and maintenance of the school site, buildings and equipment, portering services and ensuring the highest standard of cleanliness and appearance. You will also assist the Estates Manager in the day-to-day facilities operations and compliance requirements of the school.
You will need a basic level of IT skills, for example, sending and replying to emails, monitoring the maintenance log as well as the ability to lift and carry items. Knowledge of security systems, emergency lighting, and operating a fire panel are also essential. Experience of pool maintenance is desirable.
About the School:
One of London’s top day schools, Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent facilities and a friendly and supportive working environment.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am Friday 1st February 2019.
Interviews will take place on Friday 8th February 2019.
Wimbledon High School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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