Facilities Assistant - The Kingsway School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
24 September 2025, 12.00pm 
Job Advert
Facilities Assistant - The Kingsway School
Contract type: Permanent
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Salary: NJC Scale 4 point 7 £26,403 (pro rata £22,583)
Closing date: Wednesday 24th September 2025 at Noon
Interview date: W/C 29th September 2025
Details of the Role
Facilities Assistants Wanted!
We have two roles available
1 x 37 hours per week NJC Scale 4 point 7 £26,403 (pro rata £22,583)
1 x 16 hours per week NJC Scale 4 point 7 £26,403 (pro rata £9,765)
Join Our School Team – Where No Two Days Are the Same
Do you have a talent for fixing things?
If so, you might just be the person we need.
We're looking for a Facilities Assistant to help keep our busy secondary school running smoothly, safely, and looking great.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Keeping the site safe, clean, and secure for students and staff
• Carrying out minor repairs
• Opening and locking the school buildings
• Helping with event set-ups, furniture moves, and deliveries
• Being our go-to for "Can you just...?" requests
What You’ll Need:
• A practical mindset
• Some experience in maintenance, caretaking, or similar (but we can train you)
• A positive attitude – we're big on teamwork here
• Reliability – the school runs better because of people like you
Perks of the Job:
• Working with a fantastic team in a lively, friendly school
• School holidays (hello, work-life balance!)
• Training and development opportunities
• Daily steps? Smashed it.
How to Apply:
Ready to roll up your sleeves and make a difference?
Send in your completed application form to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk to apply and specify if you are looking for part time or full time.
We can't wait to meet the person who'll keep our school in tip-top shape.
Why Choose Kingsway and Education Learning Trust?
As a proud member of Education Learning Trust (ELT), The Kingsway School offers exceptional professional development pathways tailored to ECTs. You will benefit from:
• A structured induction programme, led by experienced mentors and senior leaders.
• Access to ELT’s high-quality CPD programmes, including cross-trust collaboration, high quality pedagogical development, and subject-specific training.
• Regular coaching and professional learning opportunities focused on reflective practice and continuous improvement.
• A culture of collaboration and support, where innovation and enthusiasm are encouraged.
Our Core Values
At The Kingsway School, we live by our core values, based around the cornerstones of: Opportunity, Achievement, Respect, and Compassion. These principles underpin everything we do – from how we support our students to how we invest in our staff. We are committed to:
• Opportunity: Developing our students and staff by providing a wealth of enriching experiences designed to develop them as individuals.
• Achievement: Empowering all students and staff to achieve their personal best academically but also in every aspect of school life
• Respect: Creating a positive and inclusive school culture rooted in mutual respect and celebrating our diverse community.
• Compassion – Supporting each other and our wider community with care and understanding.
About You
We are looking for someone who:
• Holds (or will hold by September) QTS and has a passion for teaching Business.
• Is eager to contribute to the wider life of the school and department.
• Has a strong commitment to their own professional development.
• Shares our school’s ethos and values.
Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
About ELT:
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).