BATTERSEA SENIOR SCHOOL

Thomas’s Putney Vale Caretaker

To submit an application please send the completed application form, a copy of your CV and a covering letter to John Haythornthwaite, Assistant Head [email protected]

www.thomas-s.co.uk Ofsted Outstanding - March 2018 “Leadership is truly inspirational. Leaders’ and governors’ visionary outlook creates a highly effective education for all its pupils.” Our website www.thomas-s.co.uk contains detailed information about Thomas’s London Day Schools in general and Thomas’s Battersea in particular.It will give an insight to our values, ethos, facilities, curriculum and community.

Application Details We are seeking a cheerful, To apply for this post please complete enthusiastic and highly committed the school’s application form and Caretaker to work from 0730 to 1800, forward it together with your CV to Monday to Friday. The Caretaker will [email protected] be required to help with functions and events in school during the evenings Closing date: and weekends, for which they will be 9am Friday 9th July 2021 remunerated. The role involves liaising with the Assistant Head, to ensure that Interviews to be held: our pupils learn in a safe, clean and Week commencing 12th July 2021 healthy environment. The successful candidate will be an important Start date: member of our team and have a Wednesday 1st September 2021 positive approach to this key role. We are committed to safeguarding Applications will be considered the welfare of children and young upon receipt. people and expect all staff to share this commitment and work in For further details go to the accordance with our child protection Thomas’s London Day Schools policies and procedures. All posts are website: https://www.thomas-s.co.uk/ subject to an enhanced DBS check. join-our-team/ or email: [email protected]

Thomas’s Battersea Senior School - Putney Vale Caretaker 2 Job Description for Key areas of responsibility Thomas’s Putney Vale Caretaker General Thomas’s Battersea Senior School, • Strict adherence to the procedures contained in the Caretaker’s Mandatory Putney Vale Campus, Stroud Crescent SW15 3EQ Maintenance and Fire Safety Tasks Schedule. • Setting up furniture etc for school events, assemblies and showrounds as necessary and clearing away after events. Accountable To John Haythornthwaite, Assistant Head • Manning the school gates and traffic marshalling at the end of the school day and at other requested times. Responsible • Manning the school gates/Reception, if necessary, for any after-hours The Caretaker will work proactively as part of the administration team to school functions or events. ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the school. They will uphold the • The porterage of goods, furniture, equipment and other items including school ethos and support the aims and values of Thomas’s Battersea Senior errands on behalf of the school. School, performing their duties to a high standard to ensure that the excep- • Staff training where necessary, eg use of the fire alarm system. tional school buildings are cared for and maintained to the level expected of • Upkeep of the school gardens and school playground. an outstanding independent school. The Caretaker will liaise at all levels, both • Assisting during school functions as required. within and outside the organisation, to protect the interests of the school and to ensure that Thomas’s Battersea Senior School, Putney Vale Campus meets its Health and Safety obligations in line with good practice. Maintenance • The upkeep of heating, lighting, water, drainage and other services Hours including the reporting of failures or dangers to the Assistant Head. 0730 to 1800 Monday to Friday • Reporting any maintenance issues that need to be addressed via the maintenance system. Please note that the school also holds events and functions and the successful • Regular tests of the fire alarm, emergency lighting and security systems candidate may be required to work additional hours in the evening or weekend. These will be paid as overtime. and the recording thereof. • Taking regular readings of all meters. Holidays • Maintaining all equipment, safety equipment, implements and tools Six weeks holiday, plus bank holidays. Holidays may not be taken during term. • in good, safe, working order, minor repairs, maintenance and other work.

Thomas’s Battersea Senior School - Putney Vale Caretaker 3 Key areas of responsibility Cleaning • Security of the school site, its building and facilities at all times. • Ensuring the cleanliness of all buildings, facilities and their contents. • Reporting breaches of security to the Assistant Head. • Liaising with the cleaning company (meet with cleaning supervisor daily). • The unlocking and locking of buildings and facilities at times stipulated • Cleaning up of any accidents that may occur during the school day and ensuring fire safety doors are closed. eg accidents, illness etc • The unlocking and locking of buildings and facilities for any necessary • Maintaining stocks of cleaning materials and ordering supplies. works that may have to be carried out after hours or during weekends, • Issuing cleaning stores to cleaners in an efficient and safe manner. as necessary. • The upkeep of all waste storage areas and equipment and the disposal • The upkeep of locks, keys and labelling of keys. of waste. • First point of contact (Key Holder) in the event that the fire or burglar • Ensuring that the means of escape within the building are kept clear alarm is activated. at all times.

Health and Safety N.B. If within the school grounds, the caretaker may be asked to deal • Health and Safety Coordinator and Lead Fire Warden. with issues that have arisen during his/her break. • Observance of and supervision of Health and Safety requirements. • Developing and presenting suitable staff induction training, to include local fire action, emergency evacuation procedures, First Aid procedures. • Carrying out fire drills with the Assistant Head at least once per term and recording the outcome. • Ensuring all staff are kept up to date with any changes to systems and procedures. • Carrying out any relevant in-house training e.g. operation of the fire alarm. • Working with CLT, SLT, Subject Leaders and other members of staff to This role falls within the category of regulated The post holder’s responsibility for promoting ensure the assessment of risk to staff, pupils, parents and members of the activity, therefore you will be required to and safeguarding the welfare of children public are reviewed and recorded at least annually and in light of significant have an enhanced DBS check and a barred and young persons for whom he/she is list check. Should you receive any cautions responsible, or with whom he/she comes changes. Documentation to be distributed and also held centrally. or convictions whilst in our employment into contact will be to adhere to and ensure these must be reported immediately to compliance with the school’s Child Protection your line manager. Policy Statement at all times. If in the course of carrying out the duties of the post, the The School is committed to safeguarding post-holder becomes aware of any actual and promoting the welfare of children and or potential risks to the safety or welfare of young people and expects all staff and children in the school, he/she must report volunteers to share this commitment and any concerns to the school’s Designated work in accordance with our safeguarding/ Safeguarding Lead or to the Headmaster/ child protection policies and procedures. Headmistress (if different).

Thomas’s Battersea Senior School - Putney Vale Caretaker 4 Person Specification for Thomas’s Putney Vale Caretaker

We are looking to recruit a friendly, cheerful, enthusiastic and highly Safeguarding and Child Protection committed Caretaker who will ensure that our children learn in a safe, clean We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and healthy environment. You will be an important member of our school team and expect all staff to share this commitment and work in accordance with and have a positive approach to this key role. A flexible approach and a can our child protection policies and procedures. All posts are subject to an do, will do attitude must be the driving intent of the successful candidate. enhanced DBS check. The successful candidate will be expected to commit to the following; You will: • Be dedicated, hardworking and take pride in your high standard of work. Thomas’s London Day Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting • Be a team player who is friendly and professional, relating well to adults the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child and children. protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past • Be responsible, flexible, reliable with a good understanding of health employers and the Disclosure and Barring check. and safety requirements. Applications In addition to the candidate’s ability to perform the duties of the post, the A brief letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a completed and interview will also explore the issues relating to safeguarding and promoting signed application form, should be addressed to the Assistant Head, the welfare of children including; Mr John Haythornhwaite, as soon as possible.

• Motivation to work with children and young people. The Assistant Head would be delighted to talk on the phone to any • The ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal candidate who would like to know more about the post. He can be boundaries with children and young people. contacted by email - [email protected]

Salary and Support For further details go to the Thomas’s London Day Schools website: Salary: £25,000 per annum. Please note this salary is per annum and not https://www.thomas-s.co.uk/join-our-team or you can email the pro rata. Contributory pension scheme. Assistant Head, Mr John Haythornwaite, [email protected]

This post offers a very exciting opportunity to work in one of the outstanding independent schools in the country.

Thomas’s Battersea Senior School - Putney Vale Caretaker 5 Our Values

Kindness Courtesy Honesty Respect Perseverance Independence Confidence Leadership Humility Givers, Not Takers KINDNESS As our pupils become old enough to reading around subjects that interest to be wrong; to risk making an unpopular We expect pupils at Thomas’s to be kind; understand the characteristics protected them, carrying out their own research decision, if they believe it to be for the to be good friends to those around them, by law, we look to them to challenge and making full use of the many greater good; to earn the trust and always on the lookout for and ready discrimination in all its forms and excellent resources available to them. respect of others. We hope that our to support those in need of a word of to foster healthy, positive relationships As a result, we would like our pupils pupils will experience at an early age encouragement or a listening ear. grounded in mutual respect. to gain a growing sense of enquiry and the opportunities and challenges wonder about the world around them; of leadership. COURTESY PERSEVERANCE about the vast body of knowledge and We would like our pupils to appreciate We expect our pupils to be unfailingly skills that has brought mankind to where HUMILITY the importance of, and to show, courteous and polite; to have regard for we are today – and about how much Notwithstanding their confidence, our perseverance; to acquire a ‘growth the needs of others; to be responsible for there is still to learn. pupils are expected to retain a sense of mindset’ by understanding that the impact of their behaviour on those humility; to be without arrogance; to be intelligence can be developed; to around them; to stand back, holding the CONFIDENCE conscious of the advantages they enjoy embrace challenges; to persist in the We expect our pupils to acquire self- door open, to allow adults through; to be and to show gratitude for them by putting face of setbacks; to see effort as the path knowledge by encountering both success particularly aware of the very young and them to best use by helping others. We to mastery; to learn from criticism; to find and failure in an environment of support the very old; not to ‘hog the pavement’ on hope that all our pupils will acquire a lessons and inspiration in the success of and encouragement, both at school and school trips; to say “please” and “thank sense of the eternal and that this will others and, as a result, to reach ever- at home. Consequently, they should be you” without prompting. inform their perspective of their place higher levels of achievement and a ‘comfortable in their own skin’, full of self- in the world. HONESTY greater sense of free will. confidence, yet always free of arrogance, We expect our pupils to be honest, to and able to make sound judgements. GIVERS, NOT TAKERS act with integrity at all times and to INDEPENDENCE We would like our pupils to become their Above all, we would like our pupils to be understand and uphold the rule of law. We would like our pupils to become best selves, not a second-hand version of givers, not takers; to show generosity of independent learners; to work hard; someone else. spirit; to use their skills and talents first RESPECT to be responsible, organised and to for the benefit of others. We hope that We encourage all members of the manage their belongings effectively. In LEADERSHIP our students will leave their school with community to respect themselves, each the classroom, we would like them not We aim to equip our pupils to lead by a strong sense of social responsibility, other, their learning environment and only to make valid contributions, but also example and to recognise service as set on a path to become net contributors the wider community. We expect our to be good listeners, who respect and a powerful form of leadership; to be to society and to flourish as successful, pupils not just to tolerate but to celebrate encourage the efforts of their peers. prepared to stand out from the crowd; conscientious and caring citizens of difference, to respect the right of others We hope that, as a result of their lessons to be the first to respond to someone in the world. to hold differing beliefs or views and to at school, our pupils will begin to take need; to stand up for what they believe develop an awareness of individual liberty. responsibility for their personal learning, to be right; to challenge what they know

Thomas’s Battersea Senior School - Putney Vale Caretaker 6 Be Kind Be Thomas’s