The role has specific responsibilities which include the following, but not limited to:

Security: Unlocking of the school at 7.15am each morning that school is open.

Perform routine maintenance of school facilities, including but not limited to patching and painting, door repairs, removal of graffiti and other debris, cleaning up and temporary securing of broken windows and doors.

Conducting building and grounds checks for hazards, repairs needed, work required and address issues accordingly.

Maintain outdoor areas including lawns, garden maintenance (pruning, weeding, mulching, watering/feeding), playgrounds, oval, footpaths, and parking lots.

Ensure all tools and maintenance equipment are properly used and maintained, including the correct storage of chemicals

Assist with event setup and takedown, including moving furniture, equipment, and setting up rooms as needed.

Moving of equipment as required (example classroom supplies, end of year classroom movement).

Support with ordering and purchasing of goods and equipment as required, including replenishing maintenance and sanitary supplies throughout the school.

Follow appropriate OH&S and risk management procedures and ensure OH&S requirements and legislated standards are met. Addressing where feasible, any health and safety hazards.

Tradespeople: Calling, obtaining quotes, inducting and working with tradespeople as required.

Maintain amenities/minor cleaning tasks where required to ensure OHS requirements are met.

Retrieving items from rooftops (following working at heights protocols), and maintenance of gutters and drains.

Comply with the Department of Education school-level policies and procedures.

Keep storage facilities clean, tidy and safe, including signage for OHS risks.

Undertake other duties as requested by the Principal Team.

A current driver's licence is required for this position

The position requires attendance during school vacation periods.

About Us:

Dandenong North Primary School enjoys a long-standing reputation as a family-friendly and academically successful school. In keeping with the re-generation of Dandenong as a thriving multi-cultural hub, the actual buildings of Dandenong North Primary School have undergone a transformation to bring the facilities into the 21st Century. Superb, new learning spaces, including a state of the art gymnasium, provide our students with a learning environment which is welcoming and purposeful.

Our wonderful and vibrant students come from a wide diversity of cultural backgrounds and provide a model for the adult Australian society of how diversity can deliver a fantastic team and family approach to learning.

We expect that all students should be able to achieve National and State benchmark standards in literacy and numeracy. We direct enormous resources to make sure that our students will perform at expected levels. We are most fortunate to have a team of highly skilled, capable and experienced teachers and support staff working together as a committed team to ensure every child can achieve to as high a level as possible. We are also in a position to provide intervention programs for any student who may need additional support in the key areas of reading and mathematics as well as providing mathematics enrichment classes for those students requiring extension tasks.

We are proud to be able to provide outstanding specialist programs for many students who enrol in an Australian school for the first time after arriving in Australia from overseas. We are highly skilled at providing smooth transitional pathways into the Victorian Curriculum for all of our students. We operate an innovative two-week Reception Program for newly arrived students and an outstanding, three-tiered English as an Additional Language program (EAL).

As a school with over 800 students we are provided with the resources that allow us to offer an ideal mix of specialist programs that include: Physical Education, Art, Library and Information Communication Technology. Our school encourages and provides pathways to excellence in artistic and sporting fields because we believe that our students should have a love and understanding of the Arts as well as being fit, skilled and healthy in body, mind and soul. We know that fit and healthy children learn faster than those who are not, so we make sure that our physical education program delivers levels of fitness and preparedness that are well above average

Our school prides itself on the successful development of a family feeling and atmosphere among the students and staff. We believe that when students feel happy and relaxed, as they do at “home”, they will be able to make the most of every available learning opportunity. We strive to give students and their families a strong sense of belonging to a very large family! All of our staff believe in the school philosophy of “treating children as if they were our own”, and a tour through the school is all it takes to experience the feeling of a positive and supportive atmosphere.

Our School Council and Staff are committed to delivering an environment where students will be encouraged to be totally engaged in their learning, fearless in expressing their creativity and confident in pursuing their personal goals. We want them to grow and develop as happy, independent, confident and resilient young people who will be in the best possible position when they leave us to make the most of the next phase of their educational journey.