Caretaker
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QG11 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
1 July 2025
Latest start date
1 August 2025
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
21 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,269 - £32,654
What skills and experience we're looking for
Knowledge
- Knowledge of basic plumbing, electrical, decorating and repair procedures
- Knowledge of Health & Safety procedures and precautions
- Knowledge of industrial cleaning products and relevant health and safety guidelines
- Knowledge of COSHH regulations
- Knowledge of moving and handling procedures
- Knowledge of health and hygiene procedures
- Knowledge of security/alarm systems
- Knowledge and experience of managing budgets
Qualifications
- Good numeracy/literacy skills / GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English
- NVQ 2 OR equivalent qualification in relevant area
Skills
- Demonstrable high quality practical building/maintenance/repair skills
- Demonstrable ability to use specialist cleaning equipment successfully and safely
- Demonstrable ability to use tools and machinery e.g drills, saws successfully and safely
- Demonstrable ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences, orally and in writing
- Experience of using IT and competence in using software products to support record keeping and management of premises related activites
What the school offers its staff
Our Federation can offer you a supportive working environment where staff well-being is a priority (including access to an employee assistance programme) and CPD is provided to help staff develop in their role.
Further details about the role
We wish to appoint a hardworking, reliable caretaker to join our hardworking and friendly site management team in the upkeep and maintenance of the St Edmund’s site. We require our site team members to be enthusiastic members of staff with a ‘can-do’attitude, who are eager and committed to supporting the whole school community. As well as meeting our job specification, teamwork and flexibility is essential.
The role may require some line management responsibilities.
St Edmund’s is federated with St Joseph’s Catholic Primary school in Sudbury so whilst the role is primarily at St Edmund’s there may occasionally be the need to travel to the St Joseph’s site or work additional or changed hours in the case of staff holidays or sickness.
The Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to demonstrate this commitment in every aspect of their work. The successful candidate will need to undertake a DBS check.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jherlihy@st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Edmund's Catholic Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 442 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School website
- Email address
- jherlihy@st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01284755141
St Edmund’s is a primary school of approximately 400 children aged from 4 to 11. Each year has 2 parallel classes. It serves the Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket, Diss, Thetford and Brandon and the surrounding villages. Children and families from other faith communities or none are warmly welcomed to the school.
St Edmund’s opened in 1882. Since then it has been added to and refurbished. The library and a teaching block were completed in August 2000. The year 5 and 6 block were completed in 2015. The school enjoys beautiful grounds which are used to enhance the children’s learning.
The school accommodates St Edmund’s Catholic Pre-school and Sunshine Club in a purpose built unit providing pre-school education, before and after school care for children age 3 to 11years.
At St Edmund’s we seek to provide access to a broad and balanced curriculum within a community which aims to:
- Remember we are all loved individually and uniquely by God.
- Place Love, Justice and Compassion at the centre of our school.
- Grow closer to God through the development of our Faith.
Through the practical application of these aims, we are proud of the excellent academic success our pupils enjoy. During their time at St Edmund’s we work hard to ensure that each child grows in self-confidence and self-discipline, learns to care for those around them as well as their environment.
St Edmund's is Federated with St Joseph's Catholic Primary in Sudbury and the schools work closely together. Maria Kemble is the executive Head Teacher presiding over the schools. In addition, each school has a Head of school and a single governing body. The two schools share their resources, specialist teachers and subject leaders.
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