Facilities Assistant (Caretaker)
George Eliot Academy, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 4QP28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 January 2026 at 8am
Date listed
8 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,000-£28,000 dependent on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will be:
- An outstanding Facilities Operative
- Able to build effective working relationships with pupils, parents and staff
- A Team player
- To work towards our target to be the best site team within United Learning
- To ensure the building and grounds are complaint by completing the relevant checks and tests
- To provide a safe innovative environment for students, staff and visitors
- To assist the Facilities Manager in ensuring that the main aims of the academy can be achieved by providing a service that ensures teaching areas are adequately lit, heated, ventilated, furnished and free of any hazards
What the school offers its staff
Benefits of working for United Learning:
- Access to a 24/7 confidential employee counselling and advice line
- Access to the Wisdom wellbeing app which can help you track your wellness, improve your mental health and includes workouts, podcasts and recipes
- Westfield Health cash plan – claim the cost back on health services such as physio, dental treatments, optical services and consultants (eligible after 6 months’ service)
- Westfield Rewards is a discounted shopping platform which offers access to an extensive range of discounts and cashback opportunities across a wide variety of well-known retailers and service providers (eligible after 6 months’ service)
- 1 day’s paid personal day in each academic year (available to both teaching and support staff)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car lease scheme
- Free will writing service
- Teacher Pension Scheme / LGPS (approx. pension 23% contribution)
Further information about the job
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.
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About George Eliot Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 848 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- George Eliot Academy website
- Email address
- enquires@georgeeliotacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 024 7674 4000
George Eliot Academy is a rewarding and professionally stimulating place to work. George Eliot Academy is a mixed secondary school where pupils feel a real sense of belonging and there is a culture of mutual respect. We are passionate about our vision to develop successful pupils who are independent, well-rounded, behave well and with integrity and live happy and fulfilled lives.
Our academy is at the heart of the local community and has undergone a journey of rapid improvement in recent years, we were graded ‘Good’ in all categories under the new Ofsted framework in September 2021.
Never complacent, we are now on our next stage of the journey of excellence and our staff are the key to achieving this. We are looking for a high-quality teacher of PE with an additional subject to join our family. If you have a passion for teaching and learning and your values are aligned with our STAR values,
Arranging a visit to George Eliot Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquires@georgeeliotacademy.org.uk.
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