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Porter
Job Reference westminsch/TP/5065/145
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Package Description
Required for: As soon as possible
Location: Deans Yard - Westminster School
Contract: full-time, permanent
Hours of work: 40 hours per week:
07:00 and 16:00 each day Monday to Friday (includes a 1 hour lunch).
07:00 and 10:00 every other Saturday during term time.
Salary: £27,868 per annum
The deadline for applications is 09:00 on Thursday 28th March 2024. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 2nd April 2024 or Wednesday 3rd April 2024.
Holidays: 25 working days’ holiday, plus Public Holidays and any discretionary stand-down period which may be granted over the Christmas / New Year period.
Job Introduction
We are seeking a conscientious, hardworking Porter to join our current Porterage Team. We are looking for an individual who can work as a directed member of a team, as well as working independently on regular tasks.
The role will involve setting up for day-to-day school events, distribution of packages and deliveries as well as completing work dockets.
Porter experience would be advantageous, and an understanding of Manual Handling and basic Handyman skills is desirable. The ideal candidate will be friendly, approachable with good communication skills and a can-do attitude.
The role is full time.
Main Responsibilities
Main purpose of job
To work as part of the Site Services Team helping to deliver events and services vital to the functioning of the School on a day to day basis.
Main responsibilities and key tasks
- General tasks around the School, this includes the Under School.
- Preparing School buildings and rooms as required – usually specified on the weekly events diary.
- Move, lay out or set up furniture and other items as required.
- Labouring tasks including general waste clearing and removal.
- Distribution of packages and parcels across the Estate.
- Assisting other departments, e.g. collect and deliver Laundry,
- Completion of dockets as provided.
- Maintaining battery operated devices needed across the site.
- Carrying out other tasks, as may be instructed by the Senior Porter, Head of Site Services, Director of Estates or other senior members of the School Management.
Please note this job description is not exhaustive. Any significant and permanent amendments to the document will be made after consultation with the job holder.
The Ideal Candidate
Please refer to the attached person specification.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
Safeguarding and Child Protection
Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About The School
Working at Westminster
Westminster School is a busy, purposeful and vibrant place to be and an excellent workplace. The community is made up of 750 pupils, 120 teaching staff and 108 support staff.
Westminster School is friendly and welcoming, and all newcomers quickly become part of the rhythm of life here.
There is a real sense of community here as, being a boarding school many members of staff and pupils live on site and the School’s premises are very much treated as a home away from home. School life starts before breakfast and continues way beyond the working day; as a result, there is always a lively atmosphere in and around School and always someone to share a tea and biscuit with in the Common Room. Support staff as much as teaching staff are encouraged to embrace the School’s day-to-day activities, whether that be attending an evening concert or a morning service in the Abbey.
At Westminster we will always select the best candidate for every position. We do know, however, that we can only truly choose the best person on every occasion if a broad and diverse pool of candidates see the job advertised and are encouraged to apply.
As such, we continue to work on how our job roles are encountered, and particularly welcome applications from groups who have traditionally been underrepresented here.
Westminster School is for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. We hope you are encouraged to apply.
The School
Westminster School is a selective day and boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 and girls aged 16 to 18. There are approximately 360 boys in the Lower School (Years 9 to 11) and 400 boys and girls in the Upper School (Years 12 and 13). One quarter of the pupils board, and the School is structured and run as a boarding school, with an extended day and week and a strong House-based system of pastoral welfare, for boarding and day pupils alike.
Westminster is an ancient school, whose origins can be traced to a charity school established by the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey. Its continuous existence is certain from the early 14th century. Henry VIII personally ensured the School’s survival by statute and Elizabeth I, who confirmed royal patronage in 1560, is celebrated as the School’s foundress. Westminster is rare amongst long-established schools in remaining on its original site in the centre of London. Its proximity to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and the use of the Abbey for its chapel, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, account in part for its special atmosphere and outlook.
The School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence both in this country and internationally. Central to its academic ethos is the dialogue between teachers and their pupils, whether in the classroom or in tutorials, inspiring enjoyment of intellectual enquiry, debate and search for explanation and the development of skills of rational, independent thought well beyond any standard examination syllabus. The desired environment is happy, busy and purposeful; the pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged, with plenty of opportunities to develop initiatives and to articulate and defend their views, in line with the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the School’s Charter. That tradition is fully committed also to the nurture of each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies - and to the preparation of young people for fulfilled private and public lives beyond School.
