Estates Operative

3 months ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom Dean Close Foundation Full time

The Role_
- 40 hours per week, 7am to 3:30pm (with flexibility)
- 52 weeks per year

The Estates Operative will work within a small team involved in the upkeep, care, and development of the school site. The role requires independent and team working in order to ensure to keep the gardens and grounds in good safe condition, maintenance of equipment necessary to deliver these services. You will be required to provide labour to trades and any other Estates Department to help fulfil their duties as directed.

It is essential to recognise that providing the best possible educational environment in line with the ethos of the Dean Close Foundation is at the heart of this role.
- Duties_
- To provide support to all Estates staff, to ensure they are able to carry out their role effectively and to the agreed standards and schedules.
- Assist with setting up sports pitches.
- Ensure all external areas are maintained to a high standard at all times.
- Participate in continuous professional development, attending training courses as necessary in support of the role and responsibilities, and as agreed annually at appraisal.
- Attend Health and Safety training and always promote and adhere to safe working practices.
- Support the efficient use of resources.
- Emptying of litter bins and litter picking around all school sites.
- To escort contractors and visitors when necessary.
- Any other duties which fall within the spirit of this job description, whether within the Estates department or within the wider campus.
- Person Specification _
- Able to work in a clean and tidy manner.
- Ability to work inside or outside in any conditions maintaining a professional approach.
- Sufficient physical fitness and dexterity to cope with strenuous work.
- Be loyal, honest, trustworthy, and reliable.
- Enthusiastic, highly motivated, and well-organised.
- Confident, proactive with a helpful and flexible approach.
- Able to demonstrate initiative and creativity.
- Ability to work well in a team and alone, with minimum supervision, maintaining a professional and enthusiastic approach.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all colleagues.
- Strong desire to improve knowledge.

For further details please see the attached job description below.

**Internal applicants**

Dean Close School is a co-educational day and boarding school which provides continuity of education from age 2 to 18. The School was established in 1886, and is set in 50 acres of parkland in the centre of Cheltenham. In 2015 the Dean Close Foundation was formed, when the School acquired St John’s on-the-Hill Preparatory School and three nurseries in the Chepstow area. In 2017 the Foundation purchased a further two nurseries, Tree Tops in Cheltenham and Gloucester, taking its total to five.

Dean Close is renowned for focusing on individual development. Small classes, excellent learning facilities plus a 550-seater professional theatre, amphitheatre, 2 floodlit astro-turfs, 25m indoor pool, climbing wall, indoor rifle range, dance studio and fully equipped gymnasium all help to nurture each child’s strengths and talents. With around 300 pupils in the Prep School and 500 in the Senior School, Dean Close is small enough to allow everyone to know one another and to feel valued. It also allows everyone to get fully involved in the life of the School. However, it is large enough to have an extremely strong boarding community, vibrant and exciting creative arts, impressive academic results and great sports achievements across all ages.

Visitors to Dean Close regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it, and we believe that this positive environment can be attributed directly to the Christian heart and principles of the School.



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