Assistant Caretaker (Site Assistant)

Oaks Park High School, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7PQ

8 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  17 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: LBR 4 Pt 7-10
• Additional allowances:

  LBR 4 Pt 7-10

Assistant Caretaker (Site Assistant) job summary

About Us:

Oaks Park High School is a popular and oversubscribed mixed comprehensive school. We pride ourselves on being an ambitious and inclusive community. Oaks Park is highly regarded for its high standards of pupil behaviour and its orderly, purposeful learning environment. The school is centrally located in the London Borough of Redbridge with excellent transport links, including Newbury Park station just a four minute walk away.

We are looking for an Assistant Caretaker to work alongside the Site Manager and other team members to ensure the whole school site is well maintained, safe, and provides a good working environment for staff, students and visitors.

The Role:

As a Site Assistant, you will support the Site Manager and the wider facilities team in maintaining a safe, clean, and secure school site. Your role is essential in supporting the daily operations and contributing to an environment conducive to learning and wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Site Manager with site maintenance and upkeep.

• Ensure the school site is safe, tidy, and secure by conducting routine checks and reporting hazards.

• Support school events and activities by setting up and clearing areas as required.

• Follow safeguarding protocols to protect the safety and wellbeing of students and staff.

• Work collaboratively within the site team and wider school community.

• Locking up duties at the end of the school day to ensure the site is secure.

Working Pattern:

• Proposed Hours: 20 hours per week (primarily covering school closing duties), with the possibility of overtime as required

• Preferred Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 14:00 - 18:30 (including a 30-minute break)

• Hours may be negotiable and discussed further at interview

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to work well as part of a team

• Commitment to health, safety, and safeguarding procedures

• Practical site maintenance skills or willingness to learn

• Reliable, proactive, and hardworking

• Good communication skills with attention to detail

Why Work With Us?

• Join a supportive, ambitious, and diverse school community

• Opportunities for training and career development

• Play a vital role in creating a safe and welcoming environment for students and staff

If you have any queries, please contact us on 0208 590 2245

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Oaks Park High School

• School type: Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1783 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oaks Park High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oaks-park-high-school

Oaks Park High School is a very popular and oversubscribed mixed comprehensive school which is expanding the number on roll to meet community demand. The school prides itself on being an ambitious and supportive multi-cultural community that keeps our child-centred philosophy at the heart of everything that we do. Oaks Park is highly regarded for its exceptional pupil behaviour and purposeful learning environment.
The school is centrally located in the London Borough of Redbridge, with very good transport links to central and outer London, with Newbury Park station only a four minute walk away.

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