Caretaker

The East Manchester Academy, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3DS

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  16 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,406.00 - £28,142.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade 4, Points 7-11

Caretaker job summary

‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023)

‘The sense of community is tangible in this inclusive school.’ (Ofsted 2025)

This is a truly exciting time to join The East Manchester Academy as we continue our journey of transformation. Following our most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2025, we are proud to have been judged ‘Good’ overall, with ‘Outstanding’ in Personal Development and Leadership and Management. This marks a significant step forward from our previous inspection and reflects the dedication, ambition, and talent of our staff and students. We are now ready to build on this momentum and accelerate our journey to become an exceptional school where every child flourishes both academically and personally.

This role is an excellent opportunity that has arisen for a highly reliable worker to take a vital role within the academy’s facilities team. You will have a flexible approach to the role and be willing to carry out a wide variety of tasks to ensure the smooth operation of whole school facilities, to meet the needs of the Academy. You will be able to work as part of a team and use your own initiative. This post is all year round with Saturday working required and overtime hours available.

You will have absolute commitment to wanting the best for children and young people, along with tact, discretion and diplomacy in all interpersonal relationships with parents/carers, students and colleagues at work. You will be self-motivated and have a personal drive to complete tasks to the required timescales and quality standards, you must have the flexibility to adapt to changing workload demands and new school challenges that may involve working beyond prescribed hours on occasion.

The East Manchester Academy is a vibrant and innovative educational community in the heart of Beswick, and is a member of the Greater Manchester Education Trust with Whalley Range 11-18 High School, Levenshulme High School and Parrs Wood High School.

The successful candidate will join an academy that is relentless in its drive to ensure our students and staff alike achieve their very best and our proud of themselves. We are proud to serve our diverse and inclusive community and wish to appoint a practitioner who shares our commitment to young people in challenging circumstances who believes that excellent leadership can leverage high levels of performance and remains optimistic in the face of adversity.

The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check prior to starting.

At TEMA we understand that investing in our staff is the best investment in our students and offer a wide range of strategies to help our teachers and support staff be highly effective in their roles. This includes:

• Strategic partnerships with external organisations to support staff development
• A genuine commitment to wellbeing and effective workload management
• Opportunities for flexible and or part time working
• Bike2work scheme
• Gym membership
• Employee Assistance
• Pension Fund
• On-site parking for staff
• Please visit our website to learn more about us (https://www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk) and contact: recruitment@temac.co.uk if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy prior to application.

The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.

Shortlisting is scheduled to take place on Thursday 17th July 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 21st July 2025.

As it is not possible to inform each applicant if they have been selected for interview, if you have not been contacted please be aware that you will not have been successful on this occasion.

At the Greater Manchester Education Trust, we offer a wide range of employee benefits to help staff save money, support health and wellbeing, and make salaries go further.

Blue Light Card(discount service)

Cycle 2 Work Scheme(from Halfords)

DSE Eye Tests

Employee Assistance Programme

Flu Jabs

Health Shield(health care cash plan)

Occupational Health

Pension Scheme(teaching and support staff)

...and much more.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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 The East Manchester Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 999 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The East Manchester Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-east-manchester-academy

‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023).

This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.

The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.

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