Premises Assistant
Reports to: Premises Manager
Contract type: Full time, Permanent
Work pattern: 36 hours per week, All year round (52 weeks)
Hours of work: Monday - Friday, 11.00am - 6.45pm (6.30pm finish on Friday), including a 30-minute unpaid lunch break
Salary information: Starting salary NJC Scale 3, Point 5, £29,436 per annum, rising to a maximum of NJC Scale 3, Point 6, £29,856 per annum
Start date: As soon as possible
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a full-time Premises Assistant to work as part of our on-site team. This is an important role to us, and plays a key role in ensuring that the school is a safe, secure and well-maintained place of work and education. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate and provide a range of DIY skills, including plumbing, carpentry, decorating and basic electrics. Working alongside the Premises Manager and another Premises Assistant, this is an ideal opportunity for a hardworking, experienced, confident and proactive person who is equally happy working within a team and independently. This role is a ‘hands-on’ one and will involve both manual handling and some working at height. There may be occasional need for some weekend working (payable as extra hours). Postholders may also be required to support premises colleagues at other schools within our multi-academy trust. Previous experience of working in a school is desirable but not essential.
Vyners is a very popular and oversubscribed mixed eight-form entry, 11-18 comprehensive school, situated in a pleasant residential area in North West London, bordering Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We have a track record of real success at all Key Stages. We are well known for high academic standards, good behaviour, and our strong community spirit, including a strong house system with students leading their peers. “Pupils have a positive attitude towards their work and enjoy learning” (Ofsted 2019). Many students are involved in extracurricular sport, music and drama, performing at a high level, including prestigious public events and performing in our own school productions.
As part of the Vanguard Learning Trust, we offer staff developmental opportunities via the trust and support from other professionals in the same role across the trust schools.
Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?
Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice.
An application form can be downloaded from here or the Vyners School website: www.vynersschool.org.uk, where all information about this post can be obtained.
Applications should be returned to: Frances Webb, via email to: recruitment@vynersschool.org.uk.Tel: 01895 200853
Closing date: Monday 3 November 2025 at 9.00am
Further information: Early applications will be considered and suitable candidates may be offered an interview before the closing date.
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.
Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.