Caretaker

Grove Park Primary School, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 1PT

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  May 2025

• Closing date

  21 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 April 2025

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: £12.13 -£12.21 per hour

Caretaker job summary

Grove Park Primary school is seeking a dedicated and proactive Caretaker to join our well-trained Site team.

This role is essential to maintaining high standards of cleanliness, maintenance, tidiness, and safety throughout our school site. Primarily based at Grove Park Primary School, but you may also be required to support across our other trust schools.

This post is part-time 20 hours a week, to be predominately worked over 2 days (Monday and Friday) for 52 weeks a year. Initially hours of work will be 7.00am-6.00pm, although flexibility will be required.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the health and safety compliance of the school site.
• Maintaining site security and safeguarding pupils, staff, and visitors.
• Managing / undertaking planned and unplanned maintenance tasks.
• Responding to unforeseen issues to maintain a safe school environment.

This position is physical in nature and includes working outside and may involve lifting / moving furniture and equipment and you will need to be hardworking, skilled, dependable and self-motivated with a good range of practical skills.

You will need to be competent at DIY tasks and be able to work both on your own initiative and under the guidance of others.

Ideally the successful candidate will have a good trades background, and be able to work with some flexibility, to meet the needs of the staff and maintenance schedule. Any general plumbing, electrical and / or carpentry skills would also be an advantage.

We can offer you:

• A friendly and supportive team;
• A healthy work-life balance;
• An inclusive environment where you feel valued;
• A supportive leadership team.
• Excellent pension scheme
• Counselling Service
• Health Cashplan (after 6 months service)
• Free parking
• Discounted breakfast and after school club for your child (if your child attends one of our trust schools)

In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, we may bring the closing date forward. We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.

CVs will only be accepted when accompanied by a fully completed online application form. No agencies please.

Bourne Alliance MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare for all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post is subject to references and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Grove Park Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 417 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grove Park Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grove-park-primary-school-sittingbourne

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