Groundsperson
Latymer Upper School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- Expired
- Salary:
- circa £22K per annum. Full-time permanent contract (40 hours per week)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Groundsperson
- Apply by:
- 9 August 2021
Job overview
Sport plays a major part in school life and the school’s sports grounds at Wood Lane cover 3½ hectares and consists of four winter sports pitches, one sand dressed astro, two cricket squares and four cricket nets.
Games afternoons, matches and training generally take place at Wood Lane and fixtures are played both at weekends and after school.
The Groundsperson will undertake routine preparation and maintenance work on a range of natural sports facilities and surfaces, to include cricket, rugby and football; conducting all work using sound turf maintenance practices.
The post holder will operate a range of modern turf machinery ensuring vehicles and equipment used by self and others are regularly maintained in accordance with routine operating requirements. You will operate a range of powered hand tools, set up sports pitches and deal with the upkeep of artificial and synthetic surfaces.
The role involves undertaking a wide range of horticultural operations including the main school gardens at the Hammersmith site.
To apply, please visit our dedicated recruitment website
Further information on Latymer Upper School is available via the School website
The closing date for applications: 9am Monday 9 August 2021
Interviews: w/c 16 August 2021
Safeguarding - The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of two satisfactory references.
Equal Opportunities – The School is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We seek to attract and retain the very best staff, ensuring that our staff body truly reflects the diversity of our students and local community. We are seeking to increase applications from underrepresented groups and, in particular, those from minority ethnic applicants. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process and will be in line with the Equality Act 2010.
About Latymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School is first and foremost a 'learning school', vibrant, global in perspective, innovative in its teaching and learning and combining the best of the traditional and the modern. A high value is placed on scholarship in both pupils and staff and the School prides itself on the excellence of its teaching and pastoral care, its academic achievements and its exciting and innovative curriculum.
Newcomers are often surprised by the size of the site on which Latymer Upper resides, little realising on first glimpse that the School stretches from the gothic gates on King Street in Hammersmith, to Latymer's Boat House on the banks of the River Thames.
Latymer Upper School’s ethos is as strong today as it was almost 400 years ago when The Latymer Foundation at Hammersmith came into being. Our story starts in 1624 when a prosperous lawyer, Edward Latymer, left part of his wealth for the clothing and education of “eight poore boyes” from Hammersmith.
Edward Latymer's vision was to offer his wards a life-changing education that would equip them to flourish in the wider world. This vision remains firmly at the heart of the School - although we now teach rather more than those original eight Hammersmith boys. The Latymer of today consists of a vibrant, co-educational student body of 1,200 girls and boys from all over West London and beyond, and a further 167 pupils at Latymer Prep.
Latymer Upper is a happy school, where the well-being of our pupils is central to all that we aim to achieve, both in and out of the classroom. Our priority is to ensure our students are equipped with the knowledge and strategies required to live healthy, safe and balanced lives. We believe that our school should help pupils become well-rounded young people, comfortable in themselves and in the company of others, whatever their differences. There are no typical Latymer Upper pupils, but we do encourage values such as politeness and helpfulness, and seek to instill a genuine sense of social responsibility.
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