Apprentice Caretaker Assistant

Wimbledon College, London, SW19 4NS

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  15 July 2026

• Closing date

  30 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11.50 Hourly £17,940 p.a. (This is significantly above the National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices.)

Apprentice Caretaker Assistant job summary

Wimbledon College is seeking a reliable, motivated, and proactive individual to join our dedicated site team as an Apprentice Caretaker Assistant. This is a fantastic opportunity to kickstart your career in facilities management, gaining hands-on experience at our historic school site while earning a professional qualification.

Working under the guidance of our Site Supervisor, you will play a vital role in ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors.

What You'll Do:

• Security & Safety: Assist with locking/unlocking the premises, conduct security patrols, and train as an emergency Fire Marshall.
• Maintenance & Grounds: Carry out minor repairs (carpentry, doors, windows), maintain school grounds, and tackle seasonal tasks like winter snow clearing.
• Operations & Logistics: Support the setup of rooms for school events and external lettings, assist with deliveries, and safely move furniture.
• Compliance & Hygiene: Monitor cleaning standards, restock supplies, and maintain essential health and safety logs.

Why Apply?

• Earn While You Learn: Receive a competitive salary of £17,940 per year (£11.50/hr)—significantly above the standard National Minimum Wage for apprentices.
• Professional Qualification: Gain a Level 2 Facilities Services Operative qualification with specialist training delivered by GLP Training.
• Future Prospects: Successful completion opens up potential for permanent employment within our site team or progression into facilities management.
• Supportive Environment: Work within a school community that prides itself on Cura Personalis (care for the whole person).

Please Note: As this role is based within a school, the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and must support the school’s distinctive Jesuit ethos.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

At Wimbledon College we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils.
We make every effort to provide an environment in which children and adults feel safe, secure, valued and respected, and feel confident to talk if they are worried, believing they will be effectively listened to.

We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding policy.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Wimbledon College

• School type: Local authority maintained schools, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1258 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wimbledon College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wimbledon-college

Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level with results significantly above national averages. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.

The school is accommodated in striking Grade II listed buildings on Edge Hill, above the parish church of the Sacred Heart, on a spacious green site in a conservation area. Private and public funds have facilitated a substantial development of the facilities of the College over the last fifteen years.
The College currently has close to 1300 boys on roll including 270 in the Sixth Form. It is a great place to work with a supportive, committed staff who share the school’s high expectations. All teachers are specialists in their subjects and there is a well-established CPD programme which encourages staff to work collaboratively on self-identified areas of research and pedagogy.

Wimbledon College has a strong system of pastoral care and discipline. All teachers are form tutors and work with Heads of Line in ensuring every boy is supported, cared for and challenged to progress academically and become involved in the wider life of the school. The school’s intake is truly comprehensive academically, socially and economically and ethnically. It draws from across southwest London and from Surrey and north of the Thames also. Last year saw boys join the College from over 40 different schools. Places in Y7 are regularly oversubscribed threefold.

We encourage all of our boys to be involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities and we offer over 80 different such opportunities to the boys. The school has a strong tradition of drama and music as well as a very extensive sports programme in the school, financially supported by parents’ donations to the School Fund.

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