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Job Title: Outside Porter
Location: Regent's Park NW10
Monday to Friday
Salary: 23,933
Responsibilities:
The Outside Porter is responsible for maintaining the exterior areas of the school, ensuring they are clean, safe, and welcoming. This includes managing school entrances, pathways, playgrounds, car parks, and other external surfaces according to seasonal weather conditions. The role also involves monitoring school bus arrivals and departures, coordinating parking, managing traffic, and ensuring the safe collection of Lower School children. Additionally, the Outside Porter handles driving requests and deliveries.
Summary of Duties
* Cleanliness and Safety: Maintain all exterior school areas, empty exterior waste bins, and ensure daily refuse collection.
* Stock Monitoring: Replenish consumable items such as bin liners and cleaning agents.
* Daily Cleaning: Clean exterior walkways, entrances, and areas of refuse and leaf litter twice daily, and manage puddling or ice in winter.
* Waste Management: Compact refuse daily for collection and arrange for disposal of minor furniture items.
* Bus Coordination: Record and monitor the arrival and departure of minibuses, ensuring orderly and safe parking.
* Gate Management: Unlock and monitor the playground gate at the end of the Lower School day, ensuring only authorized parents or guardians enter and children are safely collected.
* Parent Assistance: Aid parents/guardians with inquiries about deliveries, collections, and drop-offs.
* Maintenance Assistance: Assist the maintenance department as needed.
* Visitor Liaison: Ensure high standards of child safety and well-being through close interaction with parents and visitors.
* Gardening: Water external plants and trees and perform gardening tasks as requested.
* Driving Requests: Coordinate with the transport office for deliveries and collections.
* School Participation: Engage in school events, committees, and extracurricular activities.
* Additional Duties: Perform other duties as requested by the Facilities Operations Manager.
Requirements
* Experience: At least two years in maintenance, porter, or janitorial roles.
* Skills: Ability to multi-task, manage projects to deadlines, and handle various tasks promptly.
* Interpersonal Skills: Strong diplomacy and tact when interacting with parents, faculty, and staff.
* Teamwork: Excellent collaborative skills and a team-focused attitude.
* Child Safety: Proven commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of children.
* Driving: Clean UK driving license and confidence driving in London.
* Educational Setting: Experience working in a school or educational environment.
* Community Knowledge: Understanding of international and/or independent school communities.
Benefits
* Bereavement leave
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted or free food
* Enhanced maternity leave
