Site Security Officer

Job overview

Would you like the opportunity to work as part of a team of highly experienced and ambitious colleagues?

Graveney School is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed site security officer. The post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day security and cleanliness of the school campus, ensuring visitors and students on site comply with all safeguarding and reporting procedures.

Applicants will need to demonstrate the ability to handle site situations in a sensitive and calm manner and communicate with a range of people at all levels.

In addition, during quiet periods, undertaking a range of tasks in consultation with the site manager to assist the site team, as required, is also an important part of this position, including, but not limited to:

• Ensuring the road and adjacent playgrounds are free from litter
• Checking for any potential health and safety issues and reporting on these
• Ensuring signage in this area of the school site is up to date, clean and well secured

Essential requirements for this post are:

• Reliability and a u201ccan-dou201d and flexible attitude
• Good levels of fitness to work outside in all-weather conditions and to undertake additional duties and tasks required of this role (please refer to the job description included on the website for more details)

This role is term time only, working all year round, to start as soon as possible. We will consider one full-time position or two part-time positions which will cover 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and overtime will be available.

Graveney is an extremely popular and successful 11u201318 school situated in South West London, SW17 with the benefit of being situated in beautiful campus-style surroundings with excellent facilities and a warm community atmosphere. We have a commitment to providing the best opportunities to all students and to developing the professional skills and career opportunities of our staff within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Designated u2018outstandingu2019 by Ofsted in November 2022 and widely recognised as one of the top 100 state-funded schools in the country.

u201cTop-performing local school again, based on an aggregation of the five key accountability measuresu2026u201d The Times

At Graveney, we are committed to delivering a broad and exciting curriculum to all of our students. We are a school with the highest aspirations and ensure exemplary standards of behaviour. We consistently achieve outstanding examination outcomes at both GCSE and A level; however, we believe in far more than academic success. Our curriculum encompasses a full range of experiences that will develop our students into confident, resilient and successful young adults with the prospect of a great future.

Graveney Trust is committed to safeguarding and ensuring the well-being and safety of staff and students. All our employees, volunteers and contractors share this commitment, and we will carry out enhanced DBS checks for all appointments, as well as ensuring that our rigorous pre-recruitment checks are strictly adhered to.

We foster an inclusive culture that promotes equality of opportunity and values diversity creating an environment where the rights and dignity of all members of our community are respected. We promote a culture that allows staff to grow and flourish, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or expression, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

As part of our commitment to this inclusive culture, we kindly ask that you complete the separate equal opportunities recruitment monitoring form in addition to the application form.

Strictly no contact from agencies. Please respect this request.