It is a pleasure to welcome you to Forest Park School, a Hampshire local authority maintained special school. We provide education for children and young people aged 2-19 years with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties. In addition, the majority of our pupils have co-occurring needs including Autism, Down Syndrome and physical disabilities.
Forest Park is split across two sites, one mile apart. We have a Primary School in Ringwood Road, Totton catering for around 100 children and a Secondary School in Commercial Road Totton, catering for around 40 young people with the most profound and complex learning difficulties.
At Forest Park we are committed to providing a highly personalised curriculum and stimulating learning environment, which starts with the individual needs of each child and young person. We seek to prepare every member of our school community for the next significant phase in their lives, whatever that might be. In addition, we are dedicated to ensuring that our pupils enjoy school, are happy, confident and proud of themselves and their achievements.
In school we are supported by and work in collaboration with, a range of professionals including School Nurses, Speech and Language therapists, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists.
I hope you enjoy your journey around our website and look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful school at some point in the future.
Ashley Oliver-Catt
Headteacher
All our vacancies can also be found on the Hampshire school jobs page
Site Manager
Job/Person Summary
We are seeking to appoint a positive, versatile and enthusiastic Site Manager for our happy and successful school from October 2024, or as soon as possible after this date.
Our Site Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the proper management and maintenance of the school's building facilities to the highest standards. This includes creating a clean, tidy, safe and compliant working environment for pupils, visitors, and staff. An excellent knowledge of health and safety, security, repair and maintenance, compliance and record keeping are all essential for this role.
The Site Manager acts as the main key holder and has responsibility for the security and maintenance of our school. You will carry out a full range of duties to ensure that the school’s buildings, furnishings, grounds and minibuses are maintained to the highest standards. You will have responsibility for all health and safety matters, lead maintenance projects, manage external contractors, lettings and ensure the smooth operation of the school premises at all times including for evening and weekend lettings and through the school holidays.
You will need to be able to use your own initiative, manage your own time well, whilst at the same time enjoy working as part of a team. You will be fully competent with general DIY skills and have strong literacy, numeracy and IT skills. You will also be able to plan, organise, execute and inspect all relevant works relating to the general school site, including health and safety, and compliance.
You will have responsibility for the line management of the school’s cleaning teams, assistant site manager and will need to communicate and work effectively with the entire staff team at Forest Park.
Learning Support Assistant - Grade B
We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic, inspiring, resilient and skilled Teaching Assistants to join our great school.
Forest Park School is a special school for pupils aged 2-19 years. Our pupils have a range of needs including profound and complex difficulties, severe learning difficulties and autism. Recently inspected by Ofsted and judged as a ‘Good’ school overall with ‘Outstanding’ in personal development.
We have a strong team of dedicated, friendly and highly skilled staff who provide an exciting, balanced curriculum which emphasises personal and academic success. We also provide a comprehensive training schedule.
We are based on two sites (Primary and Secondary) and staff may be required to work on either site.
If you are up for a challenge, and really want to help make a positive difference to the lives of pupils with special educational needs then this could be the place for you.
If you are shortlisted for interview please plan to be in school for the whole morning. This is a permanent full-time position however, there may be flexibility and this could be negotiable.
We reserve the right to review applications and interview before the stated closing date which may result in earlier vacancy closure.
Interview Date – TBC
MDSA
Midday Lunchtime Supervisors
Forest Park is a Special School in Totton. Recently inspected by Ofsted and judged as a ‘Good’ school overall with ‘Outstanding’ in personal development. We need midday supervisors to help our children with physical disabilities and learning difficulties eat their lunch and to supervise their playtime afterwards.
You will be required to work between 11.45am - 1.15pm daily which is 7.5 hours per week. Term Time only. We are a split site school, and you may be required to work on either site.
Following a successful probation period there may be the opportunity to work extra hours on a casual basis in the classroom if this was of interest to you. Many of our Learning Support Assistants have started their career as Midday Lunchtime Supervisors.
The position is to start as soon as possible after the appropriate safeguarding checks.
We are looking for a candidate who:
Grade: A1 - Annual Actual Salary: £3,522
Closing date: TBC
Interviews: TBC
Please note that we may invite suitable applicants for interview prior to the closing date.
Co- opted Governor
We currently have a vacancy for a co-opted Governor. This cannot be a parent or member of staff at the school.
Would you like to make a difference to our amazing children and young adults at Forest Park? Please contact the School Business Manager for an application form.
The main requirements are attending 6 meetings per year (usually evenings) and having some flexibility to visit school during it open hours. Most importantly, to want to help children get the best out of life.