Site Operative 

Start date: as soon as possible 

Grade/salary: Single Status Grade 6, currently between £26,825 - £27,694 per annum, full time equivalent  

Contract: Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week  

Beacon Academy in Crowborough is seeking a reliable and hardworking Site Operative to join our friendly and dedicated team on a shift rota basis. The shift rotas are: 6:30-14:30, 8:00-16:00 and 11:30-19:30. This is a key role supporting the day-to-day maintenance, security and safety of the school site, helping to ensure a clean, welcoming and well‑maintained environment for students, staff and visitors. The successful candidate will be practical, flexible, and able to work independently, with a strong sense of responsibility and pride in their work. If you enjoy a varied role and want to make a positive contribution to a school community, we would be delighted to hear from you. 

Benefits of working at Beacon Academy  

Beacon Academy is a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1600 students, including over 300 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the south coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells. 

In September 2022, Beacon Academy, together with Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formally Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym, MARK, was selected because staff who work in the Trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. We were pleased to expand our Trust further in September 2025 with the addition of Hailsham Academy. This continued growth reflects our shared commitment to educational excellence, collaboration and supporting the success of all students across our Academies.  

We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students, and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly-effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students.   

For further details, please contact the Human Resources department on 01892 603000 or email cburgess@markeducationtrust.org. Please be advised that we do not accept curriculum vitae.  

All schools within MARK Education Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to disclosure and barring service checks along with other relevant employee checks. 

 NB: we advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.