Maintenance Worker
Queensmead House School
Windsor and Maidenhead
- £24,908 - £26,609 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- + excellent benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2023
Job overview
Maintenance Worker
Team: School Support Services
Location: Windsor, Berkshire
Salary: £24,908 - £26,609 + excellent benefits
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Interview Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Closing date: Monday, 17 April 2023, 23:59
Huge Small Victories
Being a maintenance worker in our school means being part of something big. You’ll be doing your bit to make sure the school building is a great place to be for our young people.
Get out what you put in
You’ll do all the general, day-to-day repairs needed to keep our school up and running, drive the school vehicles and keep them in good working order, as well as making sure the school grounds and garden are kept neat and tidy. You’ll also be a familiar, friendly face, this means our young people will sometimes stop to chat to you so we’ll give you some training on child safeguarding to give you that extra confidence!
One of the best environments in SEND
Queensmead House School is located on a historic site with views of Windsor Castle. This inspiring setting, with a rich heritage of education, is now home to a specialist learning environment recently rated Good by Ofsted.
QHS is an independent specialist day school, with both primary and secondary settings providing high quality education. The school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours.
What we do for you
We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the education sector. With us, you’ll get to bring learning to life and make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:
- Training: A full induction and on the job training
- Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with 35 days holiday including bank holidays
- Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
- Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
- Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
- Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here
- A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 bonus every time
Bring your whole-self to work
Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we’re looking for will:
- Have some maintenance skills, either professionally or as a DIY enthusiast
- Have a ‘can do’ attitude – a team player who rolls up their sleeves to help others
- Be confident taking responsibility for buying smaller pieces of maintenance equipment
- Willing to undertake Health & Safety and other relevant training
Interested in joining us?
Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.
The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.
For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.
Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD
About Queensmead House School
About Queensmead House School
The stunning Queensmead House School is on the same site as the former Queensmead School, which has wonderful views of Windsor Castle and offers a truly inspirational environment for our young people. Queensmead House School is a co-educational, independent specialist day school, providing the highest standards of education and care for children and young people, between the ages of 11 and 19 years, with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours. The school will be one of our largest, with capacity of up to 130 young people, 90 of whom will be in the Secondary provision. We would expect the school to reach optimum capacity by 2024; that’s 130 children and young people’s lives we can make a real difference to across the region!
Like all of our schools, Queensmead House School will benefit from excellent staffing ratios, highly resourced learning environments and endless academic and vocational options. The site has been a school since 1948 and our property team are working to ensure that it offers an inspirational learning environment where our young people can thrive. The school will include a full size sports hall, MUGA, and specialist classrooms for science, food technology, DT and computing. Pupils will be supported in small class sizes (maximum of 8), by well qualified and experienced staff who are able to offer an extensive range of academic, practical, vocational, sport and leisure activities, to support both a young person’s educational achievements and social and communication skills.
About Witherslack Group
We are dedicated to fulfilling the hope of every parent by releasing their child’s full potential.
We want every young person to get the most from life. We aim to maximise their opportunities while giving parents and carers peace of mind. At the same time, our expert blend of therapeutic, emotional and educational support provides unmatched value for local authorities. We focus on each child, giving them stability and support they need. Across all Witherslack Group settings, the model that we implement is our ‘Internal Team Around the Child (ITAC)’ approach. This approach ensures that young people have access to cohesive services and all the relevant practitioners concerned with an individual young person meet regularly. This ensures the services delivered are integrated, prioritised, coherent and achieve their intended outcomes.
We are the leading provider of specialist education and care for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs, communication difficulties (autistic spectrum conditions, Asperger’s Syndrome, speech, language and communication needs), complex learning needs and challenging behaviours. Seeing a young person learn, smile and grow is incredibly rewarding. At Witherslack Group you and your team will have far more than just a job, you'll have a career where you’re free and supported to grow with us!
About Windsor
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is 30 miles west of London and within 15 minutes’ drive of Heathrow Airport. Luton and Gatwick airports are within an hour's drive.
The whole of the Royal Borough is easily accessible via the major motorway networks of the M4, M3, M25 and M40 and is well served by public transport including two train stations, Windsor and Eton Central, and Windsor and Eton Riverside.
Located 30 miles west of London, 15 minutes' drive of Heathrow Airport and easily accessible via the motorway and public transport networks, the Royal Borough offers a fantastic base to stay packed with history and heritage, quality accommodation and a scenic riverside setting.
Top attractions
Windsor Castle, Windsor Great Park, Changing the Guard, Ascot Racecourse, Royal Windsor Racecourse, The Savill Garden, LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort, Cliveden
www.windsor.gov.uk – official visitor website for days out and short breaks
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