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Primary Graduate Teaching AssistantCould you add real value in a KS2 classroom while building the experience you need before teacher training? Are you looking for a school where academic support is planned properly, and your input will actually matter?* Primary Graduate Teaching Assistant * September 2026 to July 2027 * £85 - £101 per day * Superb primary school, Central Wolverhampton *** Academic support in KS2 across the national curriculumThe Role: Provide academic support across KS2, helping pupils strengthen their understanding in English, Maths, Science, and wider curriculum subjects. You will work with individuals and small groups, reinforce key learning from lessons, support pupils who need extra guidance, and share progress clearly with the class teacher. KS2 covers the full primary curriculum, including English, maths, science, computing, history, geography, art and design, music, PE, and languages.The Candidate: You are thoughtful, dependable, and good at breaking learning down into clear steps. You want to see how strong primary practice works day to day, you enjoy helping children build confidence, and you are serious about using this experience as a route into teacher training. Primary teachers work with children aged 3 to 11 and support their educational, social, and emotional development, which makes a KS2 support role a strong starting point.Requirements • Degree – A 2:2 or above in any subject., • Communication – Clear and confident verbal and written communication., • Enhanced DBS – Must hold or be willing to obtain an Enhanced DBS certificate., • Desire to work in education/with children – Genuine interest in supporting pupil progress and wellbeing., • Career Goals – A desire to train as a teacher and build a long-term career in education.The School: This superb primary school in Central Wolverhampton offers a strong platform for a graduate who wants more than basic classroom exposure. You will be joining a setting where expectations are high, support is purposeful, and KS2 pupils benefit from focused academic intervention across the curriculum. With statutory assessment and teacher assessment guidance continuing to shape KS2 expectations in 2026, this is the kind of role that gives you useful insight into how schools balance day-to-day teaching with measurable pupil progress.How to Apply Apply today with your CV to be considered for this Primary Graduate Teaching Assistant role. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted to discuss next steps and arrange interview. Early applications are encouraged, as the school may appoint before the closing date.Due to the high number of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted.

Looking for a new opportunity in retail? Want to build your skills, support a great team and help customers feel welcome? About Us As a Store Manager at our Merry Hill store you’ll contribute to leading that team. You’ll help to make the store a friendly place where customers can get expert advice and right products! We’re home to three incredible brands: Cotswold Outdoor (camping, hiking), Runners Need (running), and Snow+Rock (winter sports), and we stock some of the best outdoor names out there, from Patagonia, The North Face, and Rab to Garmin, Brooks, and Hoka, and much more. But we’re about more than just great gear. Alongside supporting adventurers, we’re also a destination for anyone who values style with substance. Many of our world-leading brands have become fashion icons in their own right, blending technical performance with contemporary design. Whether it’s premium outerwear for the city or high-performance kit for the mountains, our mission is to deliver exceptional products and service while promoting sustainability and a deeper connection to the outdoors. How will you make an impact? Our Store Managers drive the customer journey in our stores and deliver a memorable retail experience by: • Leading, motivating, and mentoring the store team to adopt a customer first approach, • Performing core retail operational procedures relating to inventory and stock, audits, and banking, • Presenting the store to a high standard in line with the brand visual merchandising guidelines, including implementing seasonal promotions and campaigns, • Communicating with our People and Product Development team to provide your team with opportunities for development and progression, • Demonstrating your understanding of KPI’s and performance metrics to analyse and improve your store’s performance, • Recruiting, training, and onboarding new colleagues with support from our People Resourcing team You’ll fit right in if… • You have experience running a store including budgeting and planning, operational activities, and visual merchandising, • You lead with a customer first approach and are happy to advise and help customers find the perfect product for their adventure, • You know how to build and develop a great team who share your passion for customer service and the outdoors, • You strive to continuously develop and improve yourself, the store, and your team What you’ll get from us We know that to lead well, you need to feel supported. As an Assistant Store Manager you’ll be trusted to make an impact and we’ll make sure you’re rewarded for it. Here’s what’s on offer: ✔ Competitive salary plus a yearly bonus of up to £4,395 ✔ 40-60% discount on top outdoor brands across our stores ✔ 33 days holiday with the option to buy more ✔ Ongoing training and development, including leadership support and expert sessions from leading brands ✔ Free, confidential wellbeing support whenever you need it ✔ Extra savings on everyday spending like groceries, travel, gym memberships and more through our perks platform... ... But there's more, for a full list of what we offer check out our website – ___ Ready to take the next step in your retail career? Apply today and start your journey with us.

In a Nutshell If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team within Vistry North West Midlands, at our Wolverhampton office. As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will work within our wider Commercial, Estimating and Buying team, you will be responsible for supervising, managing and advising on the financial and contractual aspects of multiple construction projects. You will take responsibility for the execution of the Quantity Surveying function on allocated contract/s, in order to fulfil the requirements of the Company in maximising quality of service and profitability. You will provide a range of cost control and financial reporting duties across all aspects of construction work undertaken by the company. We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we're also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated. Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus, • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance, • Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees, • Up to 39 days annual leave plus bank holidays, • 2 Volunteering days per annum, • Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover, • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, • Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice, • Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary, • Share save and share incentive schemes, • Christmas company shutdown, • HNC / HND in Surveying or equivalent, • Proven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder (dependent on position level), • Experience maybe gained from a similar position or promotion, • A good understanding or building regulations and legal obligations, • A good knowledge or construction methods and materials, • Strong mathematical and IT ability, • Ability to assess and analyse information, • Good business sense, • Good understanding of budget management, • Negotiating and networking skills, • Excellent communications skills, • Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work, • Good team working skills, • Accurate with an eye for detail, • A methodical approach, • Degree in Surveying or similar, • Lead, support and coach your direct reports and the wider team to support their growth and development, • Be active in the recruitment of new starters to the team and then throughout the employee life cycle, including holding development reviews and succession planning exercises, • Working closely with other departments, including Land, Development and Construction, you will attend design meetings to advise on all areas that may have a cost implication, • Recognise and advise Site Managers on delays, extensions of time and loss and/or expense and ensuring relevant notices are issued., • Attend development meetings when appropriate, contract pre-start and subcontract package review meetings, • Upon receipt of Contract Documentation, you will be responsible for checking all contract drawings to identify errors, omissions, anomalies and areas where unnecessary cost may arise, • Receive initial tender information and assist in the preparation of the proposed tender lists and updating of subsequent procurement programmes, • Distribute design information packages and tender drawings, whilst preparing all tender documentation and letters including carrying out preliminary checks on subcontractors, • Preparing construction cost analysis, which includes analysis of quotations resulting from the tender enquiry, requesting additional and outstanding information as required, • Arrange and adjudicate budget settlement meetings, with the support of the wider Commercial team, • Prepare stage payment schedules to assist in the financing of the works, • Carry out pre-order meetings including all necessary Health & Safety requirements, finalising a tender sum and agreeing a stage payment schedule for payment purposes before preparing all contract documentation and placing the order, • Issue variation orders and development changes alongside providing cost advice on major variations prior to issue. You will issue revised contract drawings to subcontractors; negotiating the cost of variations including liaising between Buyers and Build Managers. You will provide a full range of pricing information for purchaser's extras, • Check all costs posted to each contract, collate and reconcile all costs resulting from subcontract works, variation orders, site instructions, material order and preliminary / running costs. This will include providing monthly analysis of costs and identify possible areas of over expenditure at future dates, • Check and arrange subcontractor payments, obtaining necessary authorisation for passing payments for all elements of subcontractor works. You will agree final accounts with subcontractors, ensuring all works have been carried out within budget and analysing costs to assist on future estimates, • Take responsibility for the preparation of documents for the basis of external valuation with the client's agent (CSA, Stage payment schedule, Tick offs), • Keep the RAMS schedule updated and issued to all relevant parties, • Preparation of financial reports including:, • Internal Valuations/CVRs and subcontract liability reports in accordance with schedule of accounting period end dates and deadlines, • Margin Analysis reports., • Commercial Analysis (final margin) forecasts and Cost to Complete forecasts, • Cash Flow forecasts, • Turnover forecasts, • De-brief reports, • Compile and present CV2 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice Manual. Compile and present CV1 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice manual. Coordinate the activities of the Material Buyer and Company Estimator to achieve CV1 and CV2 sign-off., • Place and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice to budget and within programme requirements., • Attend and minute all sub-contract order adjudication meetings., • Compile reports on contract letting vs. estimate for each site periodically, as required., • Liaise with build department on sub-contractors' performance and compliance with order conditions., • Complete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes and fully adjudicate prior to issue of documentation., • Control and report post contract cost movements per development every month. Update CV1 and CV2 site specific reports and provide details of all 'unscheduled' and 'scheduled' order revisions i.e. Site Instructions and site purchase orders. To provide such monthly reporting as required by the Commercial Manager., • Review professional fee provisions and statutory service cost, and credits, with the technical department., • Ensure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract., • Immediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider., • Where necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment and liaise with Build Department in this respect., • Diligently use the Vistry Group construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc., • Assist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations., • Properly categorise on the construction system 'unscheduled' and 'scheduled' order amendments., • Settle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract., • Process groundwork's payments/applications for payment using the Vistry Group AGA payment system as outlined in Commercial Best Practice Manual., • Ensure the collection of retention against all sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy. Manage and certify retention releases on completion of the development., • Complete and agree sub-contract final accounts within 6 months of the last legal completion on-site and prior to the first release of retention to the individual sub-contractors., • Maintain final account schedule., • Maintain completed development provision on CV1., • Maintain CV2 reserves as part of the 'Old Site Reserve' central file., • Liaise with the technical department to secure site adoptions and tender, let and administer maintenance orders, as required., • Complete formal site closedown procedure in accordance with Group Policy., • Assist the Commercial Director / Manager to ensure:, • correct financial controls of sites is maintained at all times., • all sub-contract payments are recorded and processed through the surveyors and payments clerks in accordance with the general terms and conditions of purchase orders., • Inform the management team of any abnormal cost or circumstances which will have a significant effect on cost or have long term cost implications., • Ensure Quantity Surveyors are pro-active on sites within their daily control, advice and discuss any operation or method where cost savings could be achieved., • Mentor, manage and develop assistant/ junior surveyors and ensure the efficient running of the surveying team., • Ensure you keep up to date with legislation changes and attend training and technical training as and when require by the Company. We build more than homes, we're making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you'll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we're a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. xrnqpay Join us in making Vistry. #LI-AD1

The candidate will manage design work packages, coordinating closely with design teams and sub-contractors to ensure delivery meets project objectives. A leading construction firm in Wolverhampton is seeking an experienced Assistant Design Manager.

As the Assistant Design Manager, you will:. Work to the Design Management Plan, ensuring design control processes / governance are applied. That designs coordinate and integrate as they develop and information is shared between parties so that designs proceed as planned.

Assistant Contracts Manager (construction) Wolverhampton. Looking to take the next step in your career as an Assistant Contracts Manager with an new build and refurbishment sector? We are looking for an Assistant Contracts Manager who wants structured training and development. If you are looking for a structured career path as an Assistant Contracts Manager with in construction and have related experience. Rad on!! you must have a construction background and already have experience in estimating, contracts or project support, this is a genuine opportunity to grow within a stable, progressive business. You’ll be given real responsibility, structured support and a clear path forward, becoming a key part of the team delivering construction related projects across commercial and education environments. • £35,000–£45,000 salary with company vehicle, • Clear pathway into senior-level project leadership, • Hands-on mentoring and structured development, • Exposure to small projects up to £1m in value, • Pension scheme and supportive team environment What you’ll be getting stuck into as an Assistant Contracts Manager • Supporting delivery of construction projects from enquiry through to handover, • Assisting with estimates, quotations and variations, • Coordinating programmes, subcontract labour and site activity, • Attending site, progress and design meetings, • Monitoring costs, materials and labour to protect margins, • Supporting H&S compliance and ISO quality standards What you’ll bring to the table as an Assistant Contracts Manager • Experience of new build and refurbishment and commercial fit out projects, • Previous experience supporting projects, supervision or estimating, • Solid understanding of construction regulations and site coordination, • Experience working alongside Project Managers and subcontractors SMSTS desirable but not essential If you’re ready to progress your career as a Assistant Contracts Manager, apply now and take the next step into project leadership