Job Description

Uplands Academy

East Sussex
26,825 - 27,693 per year

Salary:

26,825 - 27,693 (Single Status Grade 6)

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

30 September 2025

Job overview

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Required as soon as possible

We are seeking a proactive and reliable Trust Site Operative to support the smooth running of three vibrant academy sites across our Trust. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in maintaining safe, clean and welcoming spaces for our students, staff and visitors.

This is a permanent, full-time role for 37 hours per week, and a driving licence is essential. Please refer to the within the Recruitment Pack for more information.

MARK Education Trust is a small multi-academy trust responsible for three secondary schools in East Sussex: Beacon Academy in Crowborough, Hailsham Academy in Hailsham, and Uplands Academy in Wadhurst.

Our schools are "ambitious for excellence" and aim to benefit from working in partnership, forming a community of best practice and sharing expertise to improve outcomes for children and young people. As a Trust, we seek to know and serve our communities well, developing successful schools with their own unique identities that are the school of choice for their local community and the employer of choice for the best professionals.

Our mission statement

Our vision is to provide the best possible education for our students, preparing them for life in the 21st century so they can stand equally alongside their peers locally, nationally and globally.

Our name embodies our guiding values:

M

- Motivated: to create exceptional, caring and safe educational establishments

A

- Ambitious: high expectations of staff and students

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- Resourceful: ensuring efficiency and value for money

K

- Knowledgeable: valuing learning for life

Our vision

MARK Education Trust will create:

Schools with their own strong identity underpinned by shared values Schools with expertly taught, broad and balanced curriculums which give students the knowledge they need to further their education and thrive in adult life Schools which, through collaboration, constantly improve so that they are recognised for their outcomes at a local, regional and national level Schools which are the school of choice for their community and the employer of choice for the best professionals Safe and happy environments which enable students and staff to thrive and succeed Governance, leadership and management that is robust at all levels, ensuring that the Trust is fully accountable to its stakeholders A strategy of 'growth with care', ensuring that the Trust is able to meet the needs of and invest in its own academies, as well as the capacity to support further academies

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Closing date: 10.00am on 30th September 2025.

Interview date: w/c 6th October 2025 (TBC).

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. MARK Education Trust (Beacon, Uplands and Hailsham Academies) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

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About

Uplands Academy

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Uplands Academy

Lower High Street, Wadhurst
East Sussex
TN5 6AZ
United Kingdom

+44 1892 782135

We are a mixed 11-16 non-selective converter academy with approximately 835 students. Uplands Academy converted to an Academy in September 2022 and became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formerly Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym MARK was selected because staff who work in the trust are

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otivated,

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mbitious,

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esourceful, and

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nowledgeable. This partnership provides many exciting opportunities for professional development, and the sharing of good practice across the two schools.



Uplands Academy is situated in Wadhurst, a small, rural town in East Sussex with traditional, independent shops and a warm community. Wadhurst is close to Royal Tunbridge Wells which is approximately seven miles north with its bustling shopping centre, iconic landmarks, thriving social scene and fascinating architecture. Alot of our staff commute to Uplands from a variety of places such as the south coast including Hastings and Eastbourne and also Kent.



We attract students from our local community and further afield where the smaller secondary school is a draw for some families.

Vision, Culture, Expectation and Outcomes

At Uplands Academy, it is our vision to provide the best possible education for all our students and to be an exceptional educational establishment, both locally and nationally.



Our curriculum for our students is rightly ambitious - it is as broad as it is balanced. It has a strong academic core which, where relevant, includes vocational and technical ambitions and wide-ranging choices. Our curriculum maximises educational opportunities and prepares our students to be socially and economically successful. It is expertly planned and implemented. Subsequently, students develop keen interests, a lifelong passion for learning and an impressive, coherent, and cumulative understanding of the world. All of this means that they consistently achieve highly and are prepared for future success and happiness in education, employment, or training.



We have uncompromisingly high expectations for the quality of education that our students receive, including the most disadvantaged and those with SEND. There is no room for complacency.



We support and encourage our school community - we expect everyone to make their MARK academically by being motivated, articulate, resilient and knowledgeable, and socially by having excellent manners, being accepting, respectful and kind. These expectations are reflected in the exceptional relationships that exist between our board of trustees, staff, students, parents, carers and the wider community.



Our staff care deeply - each day they strive to be positive role models, thus supporting the inclusive culture of our school environment. Our staff want our students to feel safe and happy and listened to, academically, socially and in terms of their well-being. We have a culture that is highly aspirational and ambitious for excellence in all we do, where commonalities are identified and celebrated and that differences are respected, accepted, valued and nurtured.



As staff we model what we want to see from one another and our students - we promote and expect a positive and motivated commitment to education from our students and their parents and carers.



Our standards are unapologetically high - this applies to both our staff and students, thus enabling our teachers to teach and our students to learn and excel in their time at Uplands Academy and beyond.

Exam Success

We are proud to announce that 2023/2024 was a year of great GCSE results at Uplands Academy, reflecting the motivation, articulacy, resilience and knowledge of our fantastic Year 11 students. The unverified data indicates that 62% of students achieved Grade 9 -4 in both English and Mathematics GCSE, and 39% achieved a Grade 5 or above in the two subjects.



There were some fantastic results across the curriculum, and we are particularly delighted to highlight the impressive progress made in Photography, DT, Art and English, where students have achieved some excellent outcomes.

Training

We are dedicated to developing world-class teaching and learning through research-based CPD and school-to-school support.



Uplands Academy is passionate about training the next generation of teachers and are delighted to be working with UCL Institute of Education in partnership with Sussex Coast Schools Alliance to provide professional development for Early Career Teachers.



We value all our staff - teaching staff and support staff - and recognise that our students' progress and achievements spring from the quality of the learning experiences which, together, our whole staff can offer. Our students' development rests on our professional development.



For our teaching staff, we design a comprehensive programme of CPD opportunities based on our whole Academy Advancement Plan. Uplands is active in the development of teaching staff from initial teaching training, progress to middle leader roles, and through to headship preparation.

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