Job Description

Part-time, 24 hours per week

Shift times: 7am-3:30pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, however, these are flexible and can work around your schedule.

Reporting on a day to day basis to the Dean Close St John\xe2\x80\x99s Senior Grounds Care person, but accountable to the Dean Close School (DCF) Head of Grounds Care, the Assistant Groundsperson will have routine responsibility for the daily delivery of general grounds care and maintenance across the site and at the associated nurseries.

An interest in grounds care and equipment maintenance coupled with organisational and communication skills are required. Appropriate training will be given in Health and Safety to ensure that all work is conducted within this framework. It is essential to recognise that providing the best possible educational environment in line with the ethos of the Dean Close Foundation is at the heart of this role.

Other responsibilities include:

• Assist with the routine preparation and maintenance of a range of sports and amenity surfaces as detailed on work schedules
• Assist with the preparation and cultivation work to maintain safe, quality playing surfaces
• Assist with setting up sports pitches and amenity surfaces
• Assist with minor construction and landscaping work
• Assist with grounds care for all designated gardens, estate grounds and external areas, ensuring tasks are conducted in a timely, efficient and effective manner
• Ensure standards of work are maintained and tasks completed
• Ensure vehicles and equipment are regularly maintained in accordance with routine operating requirements.

Dean Close School is a co-educational day and boarding school which provides continuity of education from age 2 to 18. The School was established in 1886, and is set in 50 acres of parkland in the centre of Cheltenham. In 2015 the Dean Close Foundation was formed, when the School acquired St John\xe2\x80\x99s on-the-Hill Preparatory School and three nurseries in the Chepstow area. In 2017 the Foundation purchased a further two nurseries, Tree Tops in Cheltenham and Gloucester, taking its total to five.

Dean Close is renowned for focusing on individual development. Small classes, excellent learning facilities plus a 550-seater professional theatre, amphitheatre, 2 floodlit astro-turfs, 25m indoor pool, climbing wall, indoor rifle range, dance studio and fully equipped gymnasium all help to nurture each child\xe2\x80\x99s strengths and talents. With around 300 pupils in the Prep School and 500 in the Senior School, Dean Close is small enough to allow everyone to know one another and to feel valued. It also allows everyone to get fully involved in the life of the School. However, it is large enough to have an extremely strong boarding community, vibrant and exciting creative arts, impressive academic results and great sports achievements across all ages.

Visitors to Dean Close regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it, and we believe that this positive environment can be attributed directly to the Christian heart and principles of the School.

Dean Close Foundation