Site Assistant

Start date: 24 February 2025

Hours per week: 36 excluding a 30-minute lunch break, Monday to Thursday, 10:45am to 6:30pm and Friday 11:00am to 6:30pm, All year round

Ark Kings Academy
Shannon Road
Birmingham
B38 9DE
Telephone number: 0121 459 4451

Contact email: kingshr@arkkingsacademy.org

Contract type: Permanent  

Be part of a truly ‘Good’ school now striving to be ‘Outstanding’ with a dedicated staff team.

About the role:
As Site Assistant, you will play an integral role on the team responsible for ensuring Ark Kings Academy is a safe, inviting and positive learning environment for pupils, staff and visitors. You will complete routine maintenance and minor repairs, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and managing the security of the premises, such as locking and unlocking buildings.

You will also support the operational needs of the school by assisting with the setup of facilities for events and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene. By proactively addressing maintenance and security issues, the Site Assistant plays a vital role in supporting the school’s day-to-day operations and fostering a safe, well-organised environment for students, staff, and visitors.

To contribute to a workplace culture which has safeguarding and child protection at its heart.

About our school:
We are an all-through school serving the local community with pupils from Nursery - Year 11. Our mission is to create a school in which every child thrives, academically and socially.

Our school values are: ‘Wisdom, Resilience, Kindness’ – and they permeate everything we do in school with our pupils, our parents, our staff, and the wider community. We recognise our role in addressing inequality by ensuring that all pupils, regardless of circumstance have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Over the past 2 years we have made remarkable progress, moving from an Inadequate Ofsted rating to a Good. This achievement reflects the dedication and hard work of our staff with Ofsted commenting that pupils “understand the high expectations that staff have for them and strive to meet with”. The strengths of our school include:

• safeguarding: effective in all areas
• behaviour: our pupils know the school rules of, ‘ready, respectful and safe’ and demonstrate these qualities in their behaviour towards each other and their teachers
• an ambitious curriculum: our well-sequenced curriculum, spanning early years to Year 11, ensures that all pupils, including those with special educational needs, receive a high-quality education
• reading strength: our effective teaching strategies empower pupils to become fluent readers, setting them up for success in their academic journey
• personal development: at Ark Kings Academy, we prioritise personal development, preparing our pupils for their future roles as responsible citizens
• attendance: our pupils and parents recognise the importance of high attendance, and at secondary, we sit above the national average

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.  

How to Apply

To view the job description and to apply please visit our website.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. 

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.