Caretaker

Wolvercote Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 8AQ

49 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 May 2025

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: £25,465.14 - £27,592.13 Annually (Actual)

Caretaker job summary

This role is key within Wolvercote Primary School. We are looking to recruit a reliable and flexible School Caretaker to join our team. This is a varied and essential role, key responsibilities include; maintain site security, carry out general caretaking requests and ensure the upkeep of H&S and presentation of the school.

Candidates should be enthusiastic individuals who enjoy working alone and can show initiative as well as the ability to work well in a team. As an important part of our staff team you should be comfortable interacting and engaging with small children. Should you wish to be part of our future we welcome your application. Due to insurance purposes we require all applicants to be aged 18 or over.

Visitors comment on the warm atmosphere in the school. Our children are friendly, enthusiastic and welcoming. They strive to do their best and enjoy attending school. We offer candidates the opportunity to join our supportive and motivated team of staff and governors with excellent opportunities for professional development.

Our school is part of the River Learning Trust. Our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools which demonstrate commitment to excellence, everyone learning, respectful relationships.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

We encourage applicants to visit the school and have a look around. To arrange a visit please contact the school office on 01865 558301.

Please see the link on the school website. Please contact Louise Eames, School Business Manager, at leames@wolvercoteprimary.org with any queries.

To find out more about the school please visit our website

http://www.wolvercoteprimary.org

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate.

The River Learning Trust and Wolvercote School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

Commitment to safeguarding

The River Learning Trust and Wolvercote Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people.

Please refer to MyNewTerm advert

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Wolvercote Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 335 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wolvercote Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wolvercote-primary-school-oxford

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