Grounds Operative Apprentice
Wellacre Academy
Trafford
- Expired
- Salary:
- Hourly rate: £3.50 with a progress review, Weekly wage: £140
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
Job overview
Working days: Mon – Fri
Working hours:
07:00-15:30 Mon – Thurs
07:00–14:15
Time allocated for lunch: 1 hour
Overall weekly hours: 36 ¼
Wellacre Academy, in conjunction with the Manchester College, is seeking to employ an apprentice following the promotion of the current post-holder to a Site Manager role in another school. The successful candidate will support several schools within our schools grounds maintenance service and work under the guidance and supervision of the Grounds Manager.
Wellacre Academy is an excellent school in which to work and learn and is situated in Trafford, amid spacious and well planned grounds. Wellacre Academy Trust provides Grounds Maintenance services to various schools in the Trafford area, from Cutting Grass and Marking Sports Pitches to General Site Maintenance including Painting and minor repairs.
There is now an opportunity for a hard working candidate who is keen and willing to learn about all areas of Grounds Maintenance and Horticulture, plus some general maintenance skills.
Duties include –
- Monitoring and maintaining health and safety
- Preparing various sites for landscaping
- Establishing and maintaining plants outdoors
- Maintaining general amenity turf, including sport pitches and marking out running tracks, football pitches etc.
- Establishing decorative amenity areas
- Transporting plants and equipment. Loading/unloading vehicles, equipment and plants
- Installing and maintaining drainage systems
- Using and maintaining equipment and machines
- Constructing new structures and surfaces
- Maintain the condition of sport surfaces
- Handyman/Caretaker tasks will be required from time to time, especially on rainy days.
- Respond to customer requests and problems
Plus – Communication with the team and customers on site. Using various pieces of equipment including ride on mowers, so a good health and safety understanding is essential. A driving licence would also be an advantage. There will be minor repair task from time to time, this will develop the candidates skills over the winter months and will aid with progression on completion of the Level 2 Apprenticeship course.
Prospective candidates should contact The Manchester College Apprenticeships Team 0161 920 4030.
Wellacre Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its staff and pupils. The appointment will be conditional on DBS enhanced clearance and other pre-recruitment checks.
Attached documents
About Wellacre Academy
Message from the Principal
It is a great honour and privilege to lead the Wellacre community as Principal.
Wellacre is a safe, happy and caring school which students are happy and proud to attend.
Staff are dedicated and committed to the school and its values and we work together to instill a strong sense of belonging for all.
Our priorities are the right ones for our students and we pursue them relentlessly:
- We invest in a thriving school environment which is safe, welcoming and inclusive.
- We provide a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum, so every student can fulfill their potential, whatever their background or need.
- We have strong inclusive practices at the heart of everything we do and promote wellbeing, fairness and equity for all.
- We provide the right challenge and support at the right time from highly skilled staff, to enable everyone at Wellacre to be successful.
- We create confident, knowledgeable and skillful students who tell us they "feel included" and have a strong sense of identity.
Our school values matter to us and are used to exemplify the attitudes and behaviours we expect from all our students.
Honesty:
We are honest with ourselves and each other. We will strive to be the people that others can trust.
Pride:
We take pride in our appearance, our work and our Academy.
Respect:
We respect ourselves, others and our environment.
Aspiration:
We aspire to be better than our best. We believe in ourselves and believe we will succeed.
Resilience:
We are resilient and never give up. We learn from our mistakes and always work hard.
Our ethos and values are reinforced through our House system with each student belonging to either Lowry, Pankhurst or Turing. The Houses reinforce our sense of belonging. Students are provided with opportunities to broaden their knowledge, interests and skills though our Co-Curricular provision which includes the Royal Navy Cadets, the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Ecology projects, Chess Club, Book Club & EDT Industrial Cadets.
Our commitment to the continuing professional development of all our staff is recognised in the Teacher Development Trust Gold Award. Our policies and practices promote positive mental, physical and emotional wellbeing, including:
- Time sensitive restrictions on the sending of work related emails
- Reasonable deadlines
- Consideration of flexible working requests
- Absence policy which supports good attendance
- Well lead appraisal process which recognises the individual
- Access to Occupational Health and counselling
- Inclusive practices
- Weekly Staff Yoga
- Wellacre Walking Group
- Staff Social Events
- Biannual data capture
- Centralised detentions.
Mrs Julie Sharrock
Principal
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