Caretaker
St Edmund's Catholic School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 1RXDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 March 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
26 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per Week, 52 Weeks Per Year Early Shift: 6am to 2.30pm (2pm on a Friday) Late Shift: 9am – 5.30pm (5pm on a Friday)
Contract type
- Fixed term - One Year
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,420 - £25,652
Pay scale
- Band 4
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone who will take pride in maintaining the whole site to ensure it is a welcoming environment for the students, staff and visitors. Previous relevant experience or training would be an advantage, but full induction and ongoing training will be provided.
What the school offers its staff
Please visit our school website for further details: https://www.saintedmunds.org.uk/home/vacancies/vacancies-support
You will be well supported by a friendly, hard-working team, fantastic staff and lovely pupils.
Further details about the role
- To assist with the cleaning of the caretaker’s allocated areas.
- Carry out required duties in connection with approved lettings of premises and after school activities.
- Check building for routines maintenance matters and vandalism, reporting and taking appropriate action when necessary.
- Undertake day-to-day maintenance duties, reporting to Site Manager any faults requiring specialist attention. Ensure replacement of light bulbs, tubes, diffusers as required.
- Ensure gullies, gutters, fall pipes and drainage systems, including foul drains, are free from blockages and arrange to clean when necessary, within the capabilities of the postholder and being mindful of Health and Safety regulations.
- Ensure footpaths, car parks, shrubberies and paved areas are kept in clean and tidy conditions.
- To act as a secondary key holder.
- Take delivery of, if appropriate store, laundry, stationery, materials and other goods. Carry out porterage duties within the School.
- Operate and monitor the heating plant and temporary heating equipment to, whenever possible, maintain appropriate temperatures, in line with the Council’s Policy on energy conservation. Carry out frost protection procedures.
- Perform such other duties as reasonably corresponding t the general character of the post.
- Direct contractors to sites of repairs and maintenance work, confirm that work has been completed and report deficiencies.
- Minibus driver.
- Swimming Pool Plant operator.
- PAT Tester.
- Deal with enquiries from members of staff, contractors and members of the public.
- To attend Open Mornings which are usually held on a Saturday morning at the end of September/early October.
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with Safer Recruitment guidance, we DO NOT accept CV’s.
The school is committed to safeguarding and the promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of appointment
As part of our Safer Recruitment guidance social media profiles will be checked upon appointment.
As we are unable to offer a sponsorship, we can only accept applications from candidates that already have the right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@saintedmunds.org.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 School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1150 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Edmund's Catholic School website
- Email address
- recruitment@saintedmunds.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02392892585
St Edmund’s is a popular Voluntary Aided secondary school in the heart of Portsmouth and serves a wide area. It is an Outstanding school (Ofsted 2016 and 2022) serving a diverse population.
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