Premises Assistant

Job Title:          Premises Assistant

                           Full-time - 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Reports to:      Premises Manager

Salary:              Starting salary NJC scale 3, scale point 5, £28,521 pa.

                 Rising to a maximum of NJC scale 3, scale point 6, £28,929 per annum. 

Working Days:    5 days per week, 52 weeks per year.

Working Hours:  36 hours per week 11.00am - 6.45pm (6.30pm finish on Friday), including 30 minute unpaid lunch break.

Place of Work:    Vyners School

Start date:         As soon as possible

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a full-time Premises Assistant to work as part of our on-site team.  This is an important role to us, and plays a key role in ensuring that the school is a safe, secure and well-maintained place of work and education. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate and provide a range of DIY skills, including plumbing, carpentry, decorating and basic electrics.  Working alongside the Premises Manager and another Premises Assistant, this is an ideal opportunity for a hardworking, experienced, confident and proactive person who is equally happy working within a team and independently. This role is a ‘hands-on’ one and will involve both manual handling and some working at height. There may be occasional need for some weekend working (payable as extra hours). Postholders may also be required to support premises colleagues at other schools within our multi academy trust. Previous experience of working in a school is desirable but not essential. 

Vyners is a very popular and oversubscribed mixed eight form entry, 11-18 comprehensive school, situated in a pleasant residential area in North West London, bordering Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.   We have a track record of real success at all Key Stages. We are well known for high academic standards, good behaviour, and our strong community spirit including a strong house system with students leading their peers. “Pupils have a positive attitude towards their work and enjoy learning” (Ofsted 2019). Many students are involved in extracurricular sport, music and drama, performing at a high level including prestigious public events and performing in our own school productions.  

As part of the Vanguard Learning Trust, we offer staff developmental opportunities via the trust and support from other professionals in the same role across the trust schools.

Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?

Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice. 

For more information please refer to the documents below. An application form can also be downloaded from the Vyners School website: www.vynersschool.org.uk

where all information about this post can be obtained.

Applications should be returned to:

Frances Webb, via email to: recruitment@vynersschool.org.uk. Tel: 01895 200853

CLOSING DATE:                       9.00am on Monday 17 February 2025

INTERVIEW DATE:                   TBC w/c 24 February 2025

Early applications will be considered and suitable candidates may be offered an interview before the closing date.

Vanguard Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.

Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.