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Premises Team Member
Closing date: 16th October 2025
37 hours per week
Monday - Thursday 9.30am- 5.30pm
Friday 10.00am - 5.30pm
Starting Salary Scale 5 point 9 - £27,254 per annum
Application forms are available at www.shsg.org/vacancies/#how-to-apply
Applications and supporting letters to be submitted to recruitment@shsg.org
Southend High School for Girls is seeking a motivated and skilled individual to join our dedicated Premises Team. We are looking for someone with experience in buildings maintenance, who is proactive, flexible, and eager to contribute to maintaining our well-loved school site.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Perform a wide range of maintenance tasks across the school's buildings and grounds, ensuring everything is kept to the highest standard.
- Work with initiative and take pride in your work, always maintaining a professional approach.
- Assist our Caretaking staff with deliveries, furniture movement, and general site security.
- Be on a rota for out-of-hours call-outs as needed, ensuring site security and urgent maintenance tasks are addressed promptly.
- Flexibility to assist with after-school and weekend events, with overtime pay provided.
- Undertake some lone working when necessary, with a commitment to health and safety at all times.
- Maintain and update records on computers, including training materials, emails, and maintenance logs.
Requirements:
- Experience in buildings maintenance is essential. A trade qualification would be a distinct advantage, but other specific building skills are also beneficial.
- A good awareness of Health & Safety regulations, particularly in relation to buildings and grounds maintenance.
- Flexibility in working hours and duties to meet the school's needs.
- Ability to work proactively and manage your day-to-day tasks independently.
We will provide:
- A strong, highly committed team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit.
- Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing
- An environment which promotes innovation.
Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls' grammar school rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.
For all enquiries, please contact Sinead Carter by e-mail at recruitment@shsg.org
We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.
Information about the School
“Pupils flourish and excel at Southend High School for Girls.”
– Ofsted, July 2024
Southend High School for Girls (SHSG) is an outstanding grammar school with academy status, proudly educating generations of students for over a century. We blend tradition with innovation, creating a dynamic learning environment where students are safe, happy, and successful.
Our school is a family-orientated community where pupils thrive. Students achieve exceptionally high outcomes and benefit from an ambitious curriculum and an exemplary careers education programme. As one pupil told Ofsted, “The school will literally help you do anything you want to do.”
We offer a vast range of clubs, trips, productions, and leadership opportunities, including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and World Challenge. Students are encouraged to lead and contribute, with many acting as ambassadors and house captains.
SHSG is proud to be a member of NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education), reflecting our commitment to stretching and challenging all learners. Our curriculum goes far beyond the National Curriculum, with students in Key Stage 3 studying three separate sciences and two languages, and engaging in ‘super-curricular’ tasks that promote independent research and critical thinking.
Staff are passionate, well-supported, and receive high-quality professional development. Our shared ethos of high expectations, mutual respect, and continuous improvement makes SHSG a truly special place to work.
If you are enthusiastic about education and excited to join a high-performing, caring school community, we warmly invite you to explore our current vacancies and consider becoming part of the SHSG family.