Grounds Person

**Estimated start date**:Commencing January 2025
**Position tenure**:Fulltime | Permanent
**Total Paid Hours (per week) & days required**:38 Hours - During School Term (Holidays unpaid)
**Salary level, range or hourly rate**:Services Staff Level 1 - $31.32 per hour(School Salary Scale)/(Services Salary Scale)

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

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School is situated in Coorparoo and offers co-educational experience to students and has an approximate enrolment of 600 students. Our school seeks to be a place where children are educated in faith, life and learning so that they may take their places as purposeful people with the courage, wisdom and will to embrace the work of Jesus through Gospel values to build a better world.

**Explore **our school website** to learn more about us.**

We are looking for an enthusiastic grounds person to join our wonderful School Community to deliver a range of services for the upkeep, maintenance and development of our school grounds and facilities.

**Duties for this position include**:

- Minor landscaping work
- Maintaining clean and tidy school grounds;
- Routine trade and non-trade 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.

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**: Warren George Fields
**Contact number**: 33977125

**Closing date**:11-Nov-2024