Apprentice Caretaker

St Peter's Collegiate Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2025

• Closing date

  6 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  20 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £7.55 Hourly National Minimum Wage for apprentices

Apprentice Caretaker job summary

St Peter’s Collegiate Academy is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Apprentice Caretaker to join our dedicated site team from October 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for someone starting their career in facilities management, maintenance, or estates, offering valuable hands-on experience in a supportive and professional school environment.

As an Apprentice Caretaker, you will play an important role in helping us maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for our pupils, staff, and visitors. The role is offered as a fixed-term apprenticeship contract, working 37 hours per week, all year round, with salary in line with the National Apprenticeship Wage.

About the Role

Working under the guidance of our Site Manager and caretaking team, you will learn the essential skills required to maintain a large and busy secondary school site. Your training and day-to-day work will cover a wide range of responsibilities, including:

• Assisting with the security of the school site, ensuring that buildings are opened, locked, and alarmed as required.

• Supporting the maintenance of school buildings, grounds, and facilities, carrying out basic repairs and reporting issues that need specialist attention.

• Helping to ensure that classrooms, communal areas, and external spaces remain safe, clean, and fit for purpose.

• Working alongside contractors, suppliers, and Academy staff when maintenance or improvement works are carried out.

• Developing awareness of health and safety procedures, including fire safety, manual handling, and COSHH regulations.

• Supporting the wider school community by helping set up for events, activities, and exams.

This apprenticeship is designed to provide you with practical knowledge and transferable skills in caretaking, facilities support, and property management. You will receive training and mentoring, while also gaining formal apprenticeship qualifications to support your career progression.

About You

We are looking for a candidate who is eager to learn and ready to contribute positively to the life of our Academy. You will need to demonstrate:

• Energy and enthusiasm, with a practical, hands-on approach to work.

• A willingness to learn new skills and complete training as part of the apprenticeship programme.

• The ability to work effectively as part of a team, while also developing confidence to carry out tasks independently.

• Good communication skills and a professional approach when interacting with staff, pupils, and visitors.

• A commitment to upholding the values of Service, Respect, and Aspiration that underpin life at St Peter’s Collegiate Academy.

Previous experience in a similar environment is not required, but a genuine interest in facilities work and supporting the smooth running of a school is essential.

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

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 St Peter's Collegiate Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Peter's Collegiate Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-peter-s-collegiate-academy

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