Site Person
Wootton Park School
Northamptonshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- New Scale D3
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2019
- Apply by:
- 28 June 2019
Job overview
About Us
Wootton Park School (WPS) opened in 2016 with two Reception and four Year 7 classes. We continue to grow exponentially year on year until the school is at full capacity with 1260 learners in 2022.
Currently housed in a first rate, bespoke modular building, due to be extended in June 2019, we will move into our £20 million state-of-the-art permanent school building in 2020.
WPS offers a first-rate and unique learning environment, ensuring high levels of academic achievement and personal development for all, while promoting the value of public service and building a stronger society. As an all-through (4-19) school, we believe this brings a significant number of benefits to learners and staff, and we seek staff who share this vision with us.
The Role
Working to support the Site Manager your duties will include general building maintenance, site security, overseeing external contractors on the site, safety of all equipment and ensuring the safety of all site users, including learners, staff and visitors. You will also be required to plan ahead to ensure the future needs of the school.
The successful candidate will have a good level of numeracy, literacy and ICT skills. You will be flexible in your work to accommodate daily experiences and site bookings. Being able to work as part of a team and good communication skills are a must.
The position is a full-time all year round post, hours of work are flexible - some work outside core hours will be required.
What We Are Looking For
A background in facilities maintenance and health and safety compliance. The ideal candidate will be totally committed to securing the best outcomes for all our School and its Learners and will ‘go the extra mile’ to do this.
You must be a proactive and a strong problem solver, resilient, committed to high standards, maintain a positive attitude, possess excellent communication skills.
Our quest for excellence, must also be combined with our unwavering commitment to care and support. Therefore, anyone seeking appointment to this role must demonstrate warmth, humour, resilience, and above all, emotional intelligence in order to uphold the values of our school.
If you are inspired by this exceptional opportunity to join our exciting journey to excellence, we want to hear from you!
What We Can Offer You
- An opportunity to innovate
- A staff well-being programme
- Highly engaged work colleagues
- Exemplary learner behaviour and engagement
How to Apply
Applications will be accepted via TES, CVs will not be accepted.
References will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.
Application closing date: Friday 28th June 2019
Interviews the week following.
Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to close the vacancy before the application closing deadline on receipt of sufficient applications.
Other Information
We are an equal opportunities employer.
WPS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
For further information on our School please either go to the school website http://www.woottonparkschool.org.uk or email hrservices@woottonparkschool.org.uk.
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About Wootton Park School
Our Journey...
WPS opened in 2016 with two Reception and four Year 7 classes.
In September 2022, we had our first Year 6 cohort, so are now operational in every year group. In 2020 we moved into our brand new £20 million state-of-the-art school building, allowing our primary children to learn in state of the art science labs, food room and sports hall. As an all-though school, our primary children benefit from subject specialist teaching in Spanish, PE, art and technology.
WPS offers its learners a first-rate and unique learning environment, ensuring high levels of academic achievement and personal development for all, while promoting the value of public service and building a stronger society. As an all-through (4-19) school, we believe this brings a significant number of benefits to learners and staff, and we seek staff who share this vision with us.
What we can offer you...
As you can imagine, WPS is at an exciting stage of its journey. With school growth, there is an exponential amount of potential to develop responsibilities and grow your career by shaping policy, launching initiatives and contributing to the school's desire to achieve excellence.
Our school coaching policy promotes a supportive and encouraging work environment to all staff in achieving their own goals and professional development.
Staff achievements are openly acknowledged and encouraged.
Wootton Park School rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted
We are delighted that our school received the top grade in all five inspection categories of its first Ofsted report: overall effectiveness, leadership and management, behaviour and safety of pupils, quality of teaching, achievement of pupils and early years provision.
Ofsted praised the school for its outstanding leadership: “The principal, together with senior leaders and governors, leads with unapologetic ambition and an unwavering determination to secure the highest possible standards of education and well-being for pupils and staff".
Inspectors also noted that “The quality of teaching, learning and assessment is of a consistently high quality” and that “Achievement is outstanding in the early years and at key stages 1 and 3".
"Staff morale is exceptionally high" Ofsted 2019.
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