Caretaker
Longsands Academy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1LQ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404.00 - £25,992.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 4 - 8
Caretaker job summary
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Caretaker to join our supportive estates team. This role is crucial to ensure the smooth running of the school.
This role is based at Longsands Academy - St Neots, PE19 1LQ.
Our ideal candidate:
- Has high standards, and a willingness to learn and to undertake training
- Is organised, uses their own initiative and works well as part of a team
- Passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs
- Understands the importance of providing a safe learning environment
- Is proactive and approaches challenges pragmatically to ensure the best outcome for students and the wider academy team.
Longsands Academy is a successful, fully inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and its surrounding area. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging, purposeful and supportive environment in which all of our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential. Longsands is at a very exciting stage of its improvement journey and is brimming with potential. The academy has pledged to provide a rich, broad and varied education to all the pupils it serves and is very much at the heart of the community.
What we offer:
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- A strong caring ethos and supportive team
- The opportunity to make a real difference
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme and Employee Assistance Programme
- An induction and well-being package
- Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team.
Please see the attached Applicant Brief for more information. We welcome visits and informal conversations about the role.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Longsands Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1653 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Longsands Academy website (opens in new tab)
Longsands Academy, part of Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully-inclusive secondary school at the heart of its community. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging and supportive environment in which our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence. Our staff are committed to nurturing the abilities of every child with a curriculum which promotes academic excellence and is delivered by subject specialists. The opportunities we provide allow all students to showcase their talents, whether through the traditional school day or as a result of the wealth of extra-curricular activities on offer. Furthermore, in order to develop the important qualities of independent learning and resilience, our students are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning both in and out of lessons. We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students that are a result of the high expectations, students’ hard work and commitment and the supportive relationships that exist between staff, students and their parents/carers.
The pursuit of academic excellence is at the heart of the Academy. Through high expectations of behaviour, a commitment to great standards of teaching delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum, and positive working relationships with all members of the academy community, all students, regardless of their background or personal circumstances, are encouraged to achieve their academic aspirations. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge that takes students beyond their everyday experiences. We believe in a traditional, subject-based approach to teaching in order to create a scholarly culture that is disciplined and joyful. We want to ensure that we open doors for every students’ future and develop in them a life-long love of learning.
We are committed to developing our staff to be the very best that they can be by striving to ensure that all of our colleagues can access high-quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Our CPD programme is both department-based and in collaboration with academies within the Astrea family and external partners. Wide-ranging opportunities for professional development are available for staff at all stages of their career, including ECTs, experienced classroom teachers, middle and senior leaders and support staff.
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