Caretaker

Spixworth Infant School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR10 3PX

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  11 August 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  18 July 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: £12.64 per hour

Caretaker job summary

Based across the CARE Federation 

Spixworth Infant School, Ivy Road, Spixworth, Norwich NR10 3PX

Woodland View Junior School, Ivy Road, Spixworth, Norwich NR10 3PY

Tel: 01603 898292

Email: business@carefed.org.uk

Website: www.spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk

Executive Headteacher: Ms H Jordan

• Salary – C4, £12.64 per hour
• Permanent
• Part Time
• 23 hours per week 
• Term Time plus 4 weeks
• Required for September 2025

At The CARE Federation, we live by our values of CARE: Community, Adventure, Respect and Excellence.

We are looking to appoint a Caretaker to join our successful team, based at Spixworth Infant and Woodland View Junior Schools. You will work across the two schools, providing high quality support to the schools as a whole, ensuring safe, accessible and welcoming sites for all. The position is available for a September start date. Hours of work, 6.30-8am and 3.30-6.30pm with some flexibility for managing alternative letting arrangements.

Key skills required are:

• A positive, can-do attitude
• Knowledge of premise management or a willingness to train in these areas.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team, leading a small team of cleaners 
• An ability to safely complete maintenance and basic repairs
• Good organisational skills
• An ability to communicate effectively with other staff and contractors
• Able to work at the beginning and the end of the school day and some unsociable hours
• Will care for our school environment and the health and safety of everyone within it

We can offer:

• Beautiful school sites
• Approachable, caring staff, who work as a whole team
• Children and families that respect our schools
• Training and certification in all relevant areas
• Regular reviews and support from leaders

Previous experience of caretaking/cleaning in a school or similar environment would be an advantage but training will be provided.

As the appointment is taking place within the school holiday, visits to the schools may not always be possible. Please email any questions or view our website to find out more about our schools. 

How to apply

A job description is available from ‘Attachments’.

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Completed forms should be returned to – business@spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk 

Closing date: 11 August 2025, 9am

Interview date:  15 August 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Spixworth Infant School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 121 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Spixworth Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/spixworth-infant-school

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