Senior Estates Officer
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £31,250 - £33,000, depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 October 2022
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced person to join our school Estates team. Someone who will directly support the Estates & Operations Manager with the organising and managing of the planned and preventative maintenance program and to also support the day-to-day facilities management of the school.
If you offer experience of working at a school and possess good DIY skills, this position offers an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, receive training and play a key role supporting the security and maintenance of one of London’s top day schools.
You will join our friendly and supportive Estates team and contribute to the smooth day to day operation of the school. Your responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring the security of buildings
- Regular maintenance of systems such as heating, cooling and lighting
- Supervising contractors, such as cleaners and grounds people
- Undertaking general porterage duties
- Ensuring the cleanliness of the swimming pool
- Health and safety checks of buildings, grounds, fixtures and fittings
We will provide full Health and Safety training and are able to support you with apprenticeships and facilities management training.
To be considered for this role you will need similar premises or building management experience.
A trade qualification i.e. plumber, electrician, carpentry, decorator, would be advantageous.
The school has been the beneficiary of significant investment over the past few years, and we now have exciting new facilities to manage. We have taken ownership of a brand new Sixth Form Centre and Auditorium this academic year - in addition to the new STEAM Tower, which was completed September 2020, and our new dining facilities, completed February 2021.
About the School:
We are based in the centre of Wimbledon – which is served by excellent transport links. Please visit our website for more details:
https://www.wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/about-us/facilities
https://www.wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/community/project-ex-humilibus
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.
As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, 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
Although shortlisted candidates will be required to complete an application form in due course, interested applicants are initially asked to send a CV and covering letter to recruitment@wim.gdst.net
Closing date is Monday 17 October 2022 at 9.00am.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 25 October 2022.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
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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