Handyman/woman

4 months ago


Lancashire, United Kingdom Shaw Education Trust Full time

We are seeking to appoint a hard-working, committed individual to join an existing Site Support team. Duties will include the maintenance and security of all school buildings and regular liaison with external contractors.

Working under the supervision of the Facilities Manager, in a supportive and collaborative team, Site Support at The Westleigh School are pivotal to the successful running of our school, and this is an exciting opportunity to join us in providing outstanding support to our students, staff and wider school community.
- Willingness to be flexible and support the school when needed
- Bring rigour and an eye for detail and experience to our ambitious school
- Be professional and approachable.

**In return we can offer**:

- A forward thinking and innovative Senior Leadership Team
- An open and transparent workplace that has an honest and respectful culture
- Friendly and enthusiastic children
- Caring, friendly colleagues with a strong team spirit and a positive attitude
- Supportive parents and Academy Councillors

**Salary: G4 (SCP 13-16) £21,190- £21,968 - 37 hours per week, all year**

The Westleigh School enjoys a successful partnership with the Shaw Education Trust, which is a growing multi academy trust led by an Executive Leadership Team steeped in school leadership and improvement experience.
Working with the Shaw Education Trust also allows colleagues to access a large range of well-established training opportunities and work alongside like-minded professionals across a range of schools.

SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was founded in 1982 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.

**The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment**:

- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- **Support Staff only** based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment ( **36 days holiday** **rising to 38 days** after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you **grow, contribute** and **flourish** in your role and in the Trust.

**The Westleigh School** is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

**In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.**

**Application deadline: 24thh March 2023**
**Interview date: TBC**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 37 per week

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 24/03/2023