Caretaker
Ladybarn Primary School, Manchester, M20 4SR17 days remaining to apply
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 details about the role
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ladybarn Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 479 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
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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