Maintenance and Groundsman Team Member

5 months ago


BerwickUponTweed, United Kingdom LONGRIDGE TOWERS SCHOOL Full time

Maintenance Team Member

**Salary**: From £11.91 per hour

Longridge Towers School is seeking to recruit full-time Maintenance Team Members to join our existing team on a full-time/part-time, permanent basis.

The School is situated in beautiful grounds, three miles from the picturesque town of Berwick-upon-Tweed in North Northumberland. Staff work as a team, whether directly teaching or supporting pupils as part of the School and pastoral teams, or as part of our support team making the site work as it should to create a safe learning and living environment in which every pupil can thrive.

Longridge Towers School

Society of Heads, Independent co-educational, day and boarding, 330 pupils, aged 3 - 19 years.

**Maintenance Team Member**

**Responsible to: Site Manager**

**The Role**:
The key purpose of the role is to be part of the maintenance team who look after the site and grounds; including upkeep of the buildings and maintaining the smooth running of the school site whilst constantly looking for opportunities to improve the working environment. This includes the development and maintenance of the school grounds and gardens, including sports turf and other playing surfaces, driveways, footpaths, playgrounds, woodland and boundaries

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Minor building maintenance, refurbishment, repairs and painting and decorating
- General labouring and assisting in-house and sub-contracted tradesmen
- General care-taking duties; including setting up events, moving furniture, car parking, litter
- Cultivation and maintenance of ornamental landscapes, e.g., weeding, mulching, pruning and planting
- Tidying-up of hard landscaping, e.g., blowing, sweeping, leaf collection and removal
- Ensure lawns and sports turfs are regularly cut, strimmed, edged and repaired where necessary
- Prepare for sports events and fixtures, hard courts, artificial turf and pitch/track marking
- Read and comply with school and local policies and procedures
- Be involved in regular safety and compliance checks

**Qualifications/Experience**
- A good range of general maintenance skills, trade skills and experience
- Practical grounds care and gardening experience
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team, whilst able to work with mínimal supervision
- Ability to produce high quality workmanship and attention to detail
- Ability to understand safe working practices and health and safety legislation.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven reliability, punctuality and adaptability
- Be willing to undergo training and development opportunities relevant to the role

**Training and Development**
- Full on-the-job training will be provided to the successful applicant.
- Undertake in-house training and other training identified as appropriate by the manager
- To take part in an appraisal review to be held at appropriate intervals, one of the benefits of which will be the identification of job-relevant training needs.

**Legislative and Organisational Requirements**:
To adhere to current Health & Safety and Fire legislation and best practices to ensure one’s own safety and the safety of others e.g., staff, pupils, visitors and contractors at all times. The post holder will conduct themselves and perform their duties with due adherence to all School and departmental Policies and Procedures.

**Terms and Conditions**

**Hours of Work**:
Full and part time roles considered between the hours of 7am to 5.30pm. However, the post holder will be required to work such hours as are necessary to properly discharge the duties of the role as outlined in this specification. Some flexibility in working hours will be required, to cover for absence and holidays. There may also be the occasional need for out-of-hours/weekend work.

**Holidays**:Holiday entitlement is six weeks plus statutory holidays.

**Salary**:Salary will be dependent on qualifications and experience.

**Pension**: Pension auto enrolment is in operation at the School.

**Notice**: All appointments are probationary for the six months, after which the notice period will be one month from either party.

**Contract**: Full time/Part time permanent

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From £11.91 per hour

Expected hours: 20 - 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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