Facilities Warden

Facilities Warden
Academy 360
Sunderland
SR4 9BA

£21,029 per annum
Permanent
37 hours per week, all year round

Trustees are seeking to appoint a Facilities Warden for Academy 360 with effect as soon as possible. Your role will be to support the school by providing operation efficiency, site responsibility, security, and be a key part of the school working within the Sunderland cluster.

In May 2022, Academy 360 was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted where pupils were recognised as being ‘aspirational and committed to their studies’.  Leaders ‘show a strong moral purpose’, have established an ‘ambitious curriculum’ and are ‘inclusive in approach and want the best for all pupils’. Academy 360 holds the prestigious Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) and is recognised as a Centre of Excellence.  The school was recently recommended for Flagship Status acknowledging its exceptional culture of inclusivity.

The Laidlaw Schools Trust is a growing family of eight schools helping transform thousands of young lives in North East England.  LST invests significantly in the training and development of all staff and is able to offer all staff a wide range of opportunities and benefits.

Academy 360 is an all-through Academy providing education for students aged 4 – 16. As a member of Laidlaw Schools Trust it benefits from the support of being a partner in a small local Multi Academy Trust which also includes one of the main feeder Primary schools for Academy 360’s Secondary school.

The successful candidate will join a successful MAT where all Academies support each other to the benefit of our pupils and their families. Our Academies also enjoy strong support from an experienced LST central team, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Further details and an application pack can be downloaded from the Careers section on the Laidlaw Schools Trust website https://www.laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk/72/vacancies-1. Candidates are welcome to get in touch to arrange an informal conversation about the post or a tour the school, please contact: emma.rutter@academy360.co.uk

Closing Date: 12 noon on Friday 1^st December 2023
Interviews will take place:  TBC
Applications should be returned to: hradmin@academy360.co.uk
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a range of other pre-employment recruitment checks. 

An online search will be undertaken for shortlisted candidates as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process and candidates will have the chance to discuss any issues of concern that may arise during this search at interview.

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