Groundskeeper/facilities Assistant

**Estimated start date**:Late March 2025
**Position tenure**:Part Time | Fixed Term
**Weeks worked**:School term weeks only (holidays unpaid)
**Tenure duration**:12 months
**Total Paid Hours (per week) & days required**:25 hours per week - days and times negotiable.
**Salary level, range or hourly rate**:School Officer Level 2: $31.56(School Salary Scale)/(Services Salary Scale)

**Employment conditions**: Diocesan Catholic Education Employing Authorities in Queensland Single Interest Agreement

Our Lady of the Assumption is a Catholic Primary School situated in Enoggera, where the children love to learn & learn to love. As a faith community we commit our talents and skills to quality teaching and learning in a caring environment which integrates faith, life and culture. **Explore**our school website** to learn more about us.**

Our Lady of the Assumption School is seeking an individual with a genuine passion for their work to deliver a range of services for the upkeep, maintenance and development of our school grounds.

**Duties include**:

- Minor landscaping work
- Maintaining clean and tidy school grounds
- Routine maintenance and repairs
- Providing feedback into planning, preparing and development of school grounds
- Liaising with onsite contractors
- Inventory management for grounds supplies and materials
- Liaise with various internal and external personnel on issues of lost property and damage to facilities
- Assist with setting up significant school events
- Compliance with workplace health and safety requirements
- Previous experience in a groundskeeping role would be preferable. You will also have a good work ethic and seek to achieve quality work whilst maintaining the highest level of safety.

**To be eligible to be considered for this role you will**:

- hold a Paid Employee Positive Notice Blue Card prior to commencement;
- be eligible to work in Australia for the duration of the appointment; and
- have a commitment to and understanding of the ethos and traditions of Catholic Education.
- Have a commitment to Safeguarding
- The Archdiocese of Brisbane has standards of conduct for workers to maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Our commitment to these standards requires that we conduct Working With Children (WWC) and background referencing for all persons who will engage in direct and regular involvement with children and young people and/or adults-at-risk. The organisation is fully committed to child safety and has a zero tolerance to abuse of children or adults-at-risk.

**Contact**: Kate MacArthur
**Contact number**: 33552388
**Closing date**:14-Mar-2025