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Caretaker
Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, BD19 3AQ12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
22 April 2025
Closing date
27 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours a week, Monday to Friday 4hrs a day with some flexibility in hours and shift patterns is required
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £14,978 to £16,248
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic caretaker to support Whitcliffe Mount with its daily premises needs.
- Ability to work in an environment of constant change and pressure where an amount of personal decision-making and judgement is required.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal communication skills in order to liaise with young people and other staff members.
- Commitment to the safeguarding of children
- Ability to work with a wide range of people of all ages from different backgrounds with different needs and to respond accordingly to support those needs
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and relevant COSHH and ESCC regulations
- A willingness to undertake further development/training as appropriate
What the school offers its staff
Whitcliffe Mount Academy is a large secondary academy in Cleckheaton, within close commuter distance of Huddersfield, Bradford, and Leeds. The academy is committed to supporting all pupils to achieve, develop and thrive so that they can be happy and successful.
The academy is a proud partner of the well-regarded and high-performing SHARE Multi-Academy Trust and is part of the Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale. Whitcliffe Mount provides staff with a wealth of support and a wide range of opportunities to collaborate, network, and share best practice.
Whitcliffe Mount has a wonderful academy community and is a great place to work, where all team members play a vital role in making a positive impact on the life chances of others.
The academy is proud to offer:
A supportive and ambitious environment where all students are encouraged to go beyond what they think they can achieve and to enjoy learning, helping them to lead successful, healthy and happy lives
A vibrant place to work which equips staff to deliver their best every day, under the strong belief that Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best is the key
A commitment that staff are happy, engaged and well supported at work, taking pride in students’ attendance, behaviour, progress and development as well as their own
Excellent training and guidance relevant to individual job roles, so expectations are understood and staff are motivated
Great benefits, as an employer of choice, including outstanding CPD, supportive line management, and meaningful networking opportunities across the trust to aid personal development
Supportive leadership, encouraging healthy work-life balance
A high-quality teaching and learning environment, alongside good facilities
A culture where children are happy, settled and confident, accessing a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a memorable educational experience for pupils and staff.
Further details about the role
To provide a comprehensive, customer led premises service to the academy by the efficient and effective running of maintenance operations
To ensure that the site and its building are efficiently operated on a day to day basis to the standards required by the Head of School and central premises & compliance team, fulfilling all Health and Safety Legislation.
Key outputs
Maintain the security of the school premises by locking and unlocking entrances and exits as required, securing the building using the alarm system and reporting any potential security breaches.
- Liaise with outside agencies e.g., Fire, Police ADT etc..
- To be a key holder and attend to call outs outside of school hours.
- To provide access to the school site out of school hours as requested.
To ensure that all routine/planned maintenance and building related tasks are scheduled for completion and to monitor results and ensure issues are addressed, including effecting repairs and improvements in order to fulfil the school’s specific responsibilities.
Responsible for site safety, ensuring clear and safe access and security of the site and its contents.
Work collaboratively with cleaning staff to ensure smooth running and delivery of cleaning services.
Report any need for repair or maintenance work to the Senior Caretaker.
Maintain and monitor Health and Safety standards, reporting any failures to comply with the school’s statutory obligations in this area and ensure that contractor’s work meets Health and Safety Regulations.
To be responsible for the Health and Safety induction of contractors to site and ensure proper procedures are carried out for Asbestos, Hot Works and Legionella.
Using the online system – currently Every – to respond proactively to job tickets and resolve any problems or queries in a timely manner. Escalating complex tickets to the Senior Caretaker.
As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the School’s responsibilities towards Safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping people safe and protecting people from harm, neglect, abuse and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have. Please refer to the school website for our Safeguarding policy
Carry out your duties with due regard to current and future School policies, procedures and relevant legislation. These will be drawn to your attention in your appointment letter, your statement of particulars, induction, and on-going performance development and through School communications.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1232 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy website
- Email address
- tracy.dickens@sharemat.co.uk
SHARE Multi Academy Trust comprises of Woodside Green Primary, Heaton Avenue Primary, Luck Lane Primary, Millbridge Primary, Royds Hall, Shelley College, Whitcliffe Mount School and Thornhill Community Academy. A central team provides operational support.
We believe in helping staff and students achieve their personal best and are keen to recruit the very best talent to our trust.
More than six hundred people work hard across the trust to ensure we provide the very best education and service across all our schools, from invigilators joining us for a few hours a year, through flexible part-time work to many full-time teaching and support roles.
There are many reasons why you will enjoy working for the trust. You will be surrounded by supportive people, working together with a common goal for all of our students, aiming to value and support all colleagues in order to help them achieve their personal best.
If you decide to join us, we will ensure you have what you need to make a positive difference in your education role. We will seek out your ideas and ask for your opinions regularly using staff voice.
Our CPD commitment is second to none and the training and developmental opportunities on offer will empower you to make improvements in all aspects of your role. The training you receive will help you fulfil your potential whatever your stage of career.
For teachers and leaders, we offer fast tracked, first class developmental opportunities led by one of our academies, Shelley College, which is the Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale. This includes National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), lead practitioner positions and trainee senior leadership positions, which build upon our middle leadership programmes.
Whitcliffe Mount School
Whitcliffe Mount School is a large secondary school of 1,250 students in years 7 to 11. Our new purpose-built school was opened in 2017 and boasts state of the art, specialist facilities across the breadth of the curriculum. We are located just off Junction 25 of the M62 and in close proximity to, and within easy access of Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds.
The leadership team are embracing the trust philosophy of “valuing people, supporting personal best” and are embedding these values into their daily practice, and into the vision and aims of the school. Staff are enthused by the opportunity to consistently improve their practice and work closely with peers from across the trust to develop and to share best practice.
Good behaviour routines and a consistent approach in the setting of high expectations permeates all that we do. Whitcliffe Mount staff work as a team to develop and to improve, and value good staff and student well-being. Our curriculum is broad, balanced and well sequenced and we are working hard to support our students in making clear links between components of learning so that they become confident, independent learners. Our teaching professionals are offered the flexibility to be creative and to develop their ideas in order to motivate and inspire students. We are focused upon offering students of all abilities, including the most vulnerable, the best educational experience, support and guidance to be happy, successful and aspirational in life.
A strong belief exists that offering a wide range of extended learning opportunities ignites students interests and allows them to uncover skills and abilities that support their sense of achievement and happiness in school and into adulthood. We believe that every child can succeed and it is our privilege to provide them the opportunities to identify their talents and their future dreams and aspirations.
Whitcliffe Mount is a wonderful school community and a great place to work, and where all our staff team members can make a positive impact upon the life chances of others.
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