Head of Grounds

**Silcoates School**
Wakefield

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**Job type**:

Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
25 September 2024

**Job overview**:
Silcoates is a successful independent co-educational day school with a long and proud history. We achieve excellent academic results and offer a broad and stimulating variety of co-curricular activities. We are looking for a self
- motivated and hard
- working individual who has a keen interest in the turf and horticulture industries to lead a small Grounds team.

The school is set in 50 acres of grounds in Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, within easy reach of the M1 and M62, offering an all-through, fully co-educational day school experience for children from 3 to 18. The School has a long tradition of sports excellence, and prides itself on the standard of its facilities and the presentation of the school grounds.

Reporting in to the Bursar, the Grounds team ensure that the school grounds are maintained to the highest standard, including pitches (natural and artificial), gardens, woodlands and other facilities, boundaries and areas of the campus. You and your team will be responsible for our sports pitches and courts, as well as undertaking maintenance duties for grounds facilities and common areas and general gardening duties.

In return we offer a pleasant and friendly working environment, competitive salary, free parking and free lunches during term time.

Ideally this is a full time post, although applicants wishing to work part time will be considered. There is a requirement for the Head of Grounds to be on site at the start of the day and flexibility to work occasional Saturday mornings is essential.

Silcoates School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS.

**Closing date: Wednesday 25th September, 9am**

**Attached documents**:

- Job Description
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**About **Silcoates School**:
**Silcoates School**
- Wrenthorpe, Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF2 0PD
United Kingdom
+44 1924 291614
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Silcoates is a 3 to 18 school which seeks to bring out the very best in every pupil through instilling in them a love of learning and a willingness to seize every opportunity they are given. Whilst many of our pupils begin their life at Silcoates in the Junior School, others join aged 11 and 16 (and at many points in-between). This continuity serves to embed the skills and qualities that make our pupils enthusiastic and effective learners. It also ensures that they develop strong and life-long friendships with their peers. New pupils to the School are given an especially warm welcome and they soon feel valued members of our community.

Whilst we are academically selective, the pupils have a broad range of abilities and needs and thus we have a curriculum that becomes increasingly flexible as pupils develop their own strengths and aptitudes. However, the most academic will succeed at Silcoates, with recent leavers obtaining places at Cambridge and Durham universities and medical school. The breadth and variety of our curriculum is matched by the range of activities on offer outside the classroom. Having all the School on one site enables the pupils in the Junior School to benefit from the vast array of facilities on offer, from the all-weather playing surfaces to the indoor swimming pool to the fully-equipped Drama Studio.

Sport and exercise are important features of life at Silcoates. Boys are introduced to our core sports of rugby, hockey and cricket in the Junior School and, due to our size, most have the opportunity to play for the School throughout their career; girls are equally as competitive in hockey and netball.

All pupils are given every encouragement to express themselves in the full range of artistic activities and push themselves way beyond their comfort zones through going on trips and expeditions abroad. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme is very well established and several pupils achieve Gold every year. ‘Grit’ and determination are also evident on our biennial expedition to Tanzania.

The principal accolade that many parents and former parents afford the School is that it is a warm and welcoming community and that their children make friendships here that last them a lifetime.
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