School Sergeant

**Salary**:
Pro-rata this equates to £7,604.72 per annum.

**Job type**:
Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

6 January 2025

**Job overview**:
The role will involve setting up and breaking down rooms for various events, locking and unlocking buildings and car parks, undertaking traffic control duties, undertaking minor repairs and maintenance, and ensuring Foundation security.

The hours of work will be 15 per week, between Monday and Friday, term time only. The normal hours of attendance are 6.00am until 9.00am.

With some 2,500 pupils, Bolton School is a large, thriving, academically selective day school. It is situated a mile or so from the town centre in a stunning 32-acre campus and is within easy reach of some of the nation’s finest cities and countryside.

A large Foundation Services Department supports the School operations and within this there is a trading arm, Bolton School Services Limited (BSSL). This includes BSS Weddings and Events, BSS Leisure Services, Kidzone and Patterdale Hall, a superb Outdoor Pursuits Centre situated at the Southern end of Lake Ullswater. Those who work within the organisation are able to combine the experience and pleasure of educating and being around young people with some of the challenges of a business environment.

An attractive salary and benefits package are available.

Interviews will be held on Monday 13 January 2025

**About**Bolton School**:
**Bolton School**
- Chorley New Road
- Bolton
- BL1 4PA
- United Kingdom

+44 1204 840201

Bolton School is one of the country’s pre-eminent educational establishments. In 2019 we won the _TES_ Independent School of the Year and the _Independent School Parent Magazine_ School of the Year Award. In the same year, we won the Independent School Fundraising Campaign of the Year.

In recent years, we became the first school to be awarded the Queen’s Award for Volunteering, we won the _TES’_ Community Initiative Award and the _MEN’s_ Active Community Award.

**Staff Benefits at Bolton School**

There are many benefits to working at Bolton School, including;
- Training and development opportunities will be offered.
- A generous level of PPA.
- Lunches will be provided free of charge on campus.
- Payment whilst absent will be in accordance with the current Teachers’ Sick Pay Regulations, as defined in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (teaching members of staff only).
- Where appropriate fee remission arrangements will be offered for children to attend the Primary and Senior School.
- In line with school policy employees will have the opportunity to arrange to educate their children from Nursery age to 6th form; all on the Bolton School campus.
- Convenient, affordable, quality childcare provision will be available before and after the school day for children who are also Bolton School pupils.
- Life Assurance cover at 2 times salary up until the age of 65.
- Free parking on site and an easily accessible campus with strong transport links (including being on a direct bus route).
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme for all employees and their family members. As well as access to a 24-hour confidential helpline with counselling services, this benefit includes access to the Health Assured website and App, both of which have a wealth of well-being advice and guidance available.
- Free parking on site and an easily accessible campus with strong transport links (including being on a direct bus route).
- Ride to Work Scheme available.
- Sporting and leisure facilities will be available including gym, outdoor pursuits centre, swimming pool and tennis courts.
- Warm and friendly community.

**Pension Scheme**

All new members of staff are able to join the Bolton School Group Personal Pension Scheme. In this scheme the minimum employee contribution is 6% of gross earnings and the employer contributes 10%. There is the option to join the Group Personal Pension Scheme on a salary exchange basis.

**Mission Statement**

It is our aim to inspire each pupil to reach their full potential.

We provide challenge, encourage initiative, promote teamwork and develop leadership capabilities. It is our aim that students leave the School as self-confident young people equipped with the knowledge, skills and attributes that will allow them to lead a happy and fulfilled life and to make a difference for good in the wider community.

We do this through offering:

- a rich and stimulating educational experience which encompasses academic, extra-curricular and social activities
- a supportive and industrious learning environment for pupils selected on academic potential, irrespective of means and background.

**Why You Should Choose to Work at Bolton School**

**_ Academic Excellence_**

The curriculum is delivered by a highly qualified, experienced and dedicated teaching staff, who create an industrious but supportive working environment where pupils are motivated to learn. We are an academically selec