Caretaker / Lettings Caretaker
Surbiton High School
Surbiton, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 23 January 2017
Job overview
Prime Function: The caretaker will be part of the caretaking team and provide caretaking and maintenance services to all buildings and grounds forming the school site, assisting to ensure a safe and secure environment. The caretaker will be required to work evenings and weekends, the shift times will be dependent upon bookings.
Reporting Line: Premises Manager
Tenure: Permanent, Full-time, 40 hours per week:
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 1:00pm -9:00pm
Wednesday: 6:00pm - 12:00am
Saturday: 8:00am – 6:00pm
Surbiton High School is on Ten sites: The main Senior School; a purpose built Sixth Form; Girls’ Preparatory School; Boys’ Preparatory School; Surbiton Assembly Rooms; a thirty-three acre Sports Ground at nearby Hinchley Wood; Oaken Lane Sports Grounds; Charles Burney House; Mary Bennett House and the School Boat House on the River Thames
Key Responsibilities
1. Security:
- Assist with ensuring the security of the School premises and its contents, both in term time and school holidays, including routine and non-routine (e.g. emergencies), opening and closing and during lettings, reporting any emergencies outside own areas to the relevant line managers
- Close all appropriate external gates, doors, windows
- Turn all lights, equipment off
- Ensure access for emergency services to site and assist as requested
- To be on call for emergencies
- Check for any break-ins or forced entry and inform the police if necessary
2. To investigate system failures in heating, lighting, water, sewerage, and electric circuits, and to make minor repairs where appropriate, in consultation with the Premises Manager
3.To keep records of supplies, monitoring use and re-ordering in consultation with the Premises Manager.
4. To set up for events/lets and clear up as required
5. To keep the grounds neat, tidy and clean
6. To ensure that all drains, gullies and low level gutters are free and flowing clean
7. As necessary clear pathways of snow and ice and treat them as required
8. To receive deliveries of stores, including teaching supplies, materials and other goods, and arrange storage with relevant staff
9. To assist with erecting fixed sports equipment at the beginning of the season and take down and store away at the end
10. To assist with keeping an inventory of tools and power equipment and ensure they are kept in good repair in line with current legislation
11. As necessary, to check and keep register of all fire equipment e.g. extinguishers, smoke detectors, heat detectors, bells and press buttons, hose reels, dry/wet risers and hydrant points. Liaise with the fire brigade when routine maintenance is carried out on these
12. To assist the Fire Manager to arrange fire practices
13. Drive school minibuses and transport as required
14. To accompany outside contractors and other workmen having business on the premises where necessary
15. To take and collect urgent post and local deliveries in accordance with the priority timescales
16. To carry out visual security checks of the premises on all days when the school is completely closed.
17. To carry out other such reasonable duties within the responsibilities of the post
Person Specification
The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:
Personal Qualities
- Highly effective verbal and written communication skills
- Initiative
- High standards of personal presentation
- Organised with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work alone
- Reliability and integrity
- Ability to take responsibility
- Positive, enthusiastic and energetic approach to life, with a can-do attitude
- Committed to the Surbiton High School’s ethos
Experience
- Be able to carry out general repairs and maintenance to a high standard
- Be computer literate
- Have practical knowledge of vehicle and machinery maintenance
- Experience of driving a minibus preferable, with D1 or equivalent plus a clean driving licence
- First Aid (training could be offered)
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email recruitment@surbitonhigh.com or call 0208 4391 349
Closing Date: 12:00pm Monday 23 January 2017
Attached documents
About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Principal
Rebecca Glover
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