Site Assistant - Furze Down School
Location: Buckingham
Overview
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 2 £24,879 - £26,961 depending on Experience
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Closing date: 16/12/2024 12:00
Interviews to be held: To be confirmed
Start as soon as possible
About us
At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure
Website: https://www.fds.org.uk/
About the role
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Health and Safety
• To ensure safe working practices, following school policies and procedures and implementing the regulations relating to Health and Safety
• To use personal protective equipment and follow lone working procedures- See Health and
Safety Policy
• Report any accidents, incidents or near misses
• Assist Site Manager with health and safety inspections and tests
• Use and maintain two-way radio to stay connected at all times
• Act as a Fire Warden
• Assist with legionella prevention, water temperature checks and outlet purging
Security:
• Open the school building in the morning or securing in the evening (working patterns are subject to change when needed), checking all evacuation routes and emergency exits are clear. Make notes of any problems and report them to the Site Manager
• Operate Alarm system
• Unlock, open, close and lock gates as required. Maintain security being vigilant for any strangers on the site and checking their identity.
• Monitor and support contractors working on site.
Deliveries
• Receive and distribute deliveries keeping reception and the service yard clear.
• Deliver any urgent post as required
School Cleaning
• Support cleaning staff to carry out job effectively; doors unlocked, and cleaning materials can be accessed. Report any issues related to the quality of work to the Site Manager
• Directly undertake any emergency cleaning as required: Spills kit situated in cleaning cupboards
• Monitor stock levels of cleaning consumables
Please see Job Description
About you
Please see Person Specification Attached
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01296 711380
Email: [email protected]
Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
We have a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.
This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
