Lets Janitor

The Role
Kelvinside Academy is looking for a **suitably qualified and experienced** Lets Janitor.

The position of Lets Janitor of Kelvinside Academy is one of responsibility, requiring a person of high calibre, practical skill, and efficiency. The duties include the day-to-day administration of the school estate, including all buildings and grounds and ensuring prompt action is taken to rectify and report to the Facilities Manager any appropriate incidents or damage.

As a customer facing role, excellent service is paramount and an ability to interact well with young people and members of the public.

**Responsibilities**

The person appointed will:

- Take up the post from June 2024.
- Have experience in a school environment (desirable)
- Security and key holding tasks across the school site, ensuring that all buildings within the school grounds are checked, locked, and secured at the end of each day or evening. The same requisite duty applies to the opening of the school buildings.
- To conduct routine and regular checks/inspections of school buildings and grounds.
- To contribute to the maintenance of the school estate including the carrying out of repairs, using practical skills to undertake a range of DIY including electrical, plumbing, heating, decoration, grounds maintenance and joinery tasks.
- To operate the school computer system to respond to service requests and access the school helpdesk for information appropriate to the role.
- To ensure that all outside areas of the school grounds are maintained and kept in a clean and tidy condition and to partake of daily litter picking and rubbish removal.
- Responsible for Lets within the school premises. This include preparing school for lets as appropriate, opening and closing of premises before and after lets and checking identity of those responsible for lets. It addition supervision of premises and grounds during lets
- To co-ordinate room and furnishing requirements for meetings or other activities including those outside of normal school hours e.g., school lets and events.
- To work flexibly with colleagues to meet school operational needs and requests for work outside normal shift patterns and holiday periods. A rota is established for work out with normal working hours and any additional hours.

Applicants should be, or eligible to become, a PVG Scheme member.

**Salary**: Competitive Salary dependant on Qualifications and Experience.

Working Hours: 40 (flexible) hours, Monday to Saturday with the occasional Sunday.

**About Kelvinside Academy**

Kelvinside Academy is an independent, HMC, co-educational day school with 640 pupils aged from 3 to 18. It may have first opened its doors in 1878 and be housed in a Grade A listed building in Glasgow’s West End, but there’s much more going on inside the walls than meets the eye.

It is a forward-thinking independent school with a focus on progressive pupil-centric learning at every stage and pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional academic assessment. It combines high standards of teaching and a superb extra-curricular programme within an inclusive and caring ethos to encourage the individual talents and ambitions of every young person.

Results in examinations are well above the national average. Pupils are encouraged to take advantage of the many opportunities for personal development through sport, music, drama, outdoor pursuits and clubs and societies.

The first of its kind in the UK, Kelvinside’s state of the art Innovation School facility has enabled design thinking and an architectural design studio model to be incorporated into the school’s curriculum from J1 to S6.

Junior school classrooms are inspired by the collaborative, pupil-oriented Scandinavian school model featuring bleacher seating, mobile teaching stations and whiteboard desks. All Junior School pupils enjoy weekly Forest School sessions and Innovation School classes.

Outdoor education plays a primary role in learning with our Wilderness Campus in the Cairngorms National Park, School Yacht ‘Level Best’, external roof garden classroom and Forest School partnership with the University of Glasgow.

Our Greek motto translates as ‘Ever to be the Best’. In recent years, this has been given a more modern interpretation and the ethos of the school is to challenge each individual pupil to ‘Be The Best You Can Be’ in all aspects of life.