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Caretaker

Ladybarn Primary School, Manchester, M20 4SR

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• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  25 June 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  6 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Working hours would be 37.5 hours per week, all year round with 26 days holiday to be taken in the school holidays. Hours of work, 7.00am to 11.00am then 3.30pm – 7.00pm, Monday to Friday working during term time and school holidays
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027

What skills and experience we're looking for

Kingsway Community Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic and hardworking caretaker to be based at Ladybarn Primary School who will have responsibility for school premises and grounds including:

• Daily checks and tidying
• Health and safety checks
• Bin management for weekly refuse collection
• Daily cleaning
• Undertaking adhoc practical odd jobs as required.
• They will also be responsible for the opening and locking up of the school each day.

The successful candidate will be trustworthy, very well motivated, positive, able to manage own workload, be able to communicate well with pupils and staff and take a real pride in the work they do.

Interview date: 1 July 2025.

What the school offers its staff

Kingsway Community Trust is a Multi Academy Trust made up of Ladybarn Primary School, Cringle Brook Primary School and Green End Primary School. This provides the staff and children of both schools with enhanced development and networking opportunities.

The Trust is led and managed by one Executive Headteacher and a Trust Board. In each school there is a full time Head of School who lead and manage alongside the Executive Headteacher.

Kingsway Community Trust can offer you:-

A thriving learning community with a positive ethos and innovative approaches

• A supportive and empowering environment, supported by a National Leader of Education
• The support of a well-established, highly successful and forward thinking Trust
• A culturally rich and diverse urban community

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.

Candidates should download the application form and complete full, making sure yto address the person specification. Submissions received without a completed application form will not be considered. Photographs of application forms will not be accepted. We cannot accept CVs as an application. Completed application forms should be emailed to jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk

Commitment to safeguarding

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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About Ladybarn Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 488 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ladybarn Primary School website
• Email address: jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 0161 445 4898
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ladybarn-primary-school-manchester

Ladybarn Primary is part of Kingsway Community Trust, which also consists of Cringle Brook Primary in Levenshulme and Green End Primary in Burnage, both of which are also Ofsted Graded Outstanding. As part of the Trust, Ladybarn benefits from strong links with these two schools.

The curriculum we provide at Ladybarn is tailor made to give all children a thirst for learning, a motivated engagement in school and the best chance to attain high academic success. There is a strong emphasis on developing confidence and skills to be excellent communicators in all situations. Our school has a very strong sense of community, with nurture and strong relationships at its core.

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