Lansdowne Primary Academy: Caretaker

Lansdowne Primary Academy, Tilbury, Essex, RM18 7QB

11 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 December 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: 24173.00 - 26569.00

Lansdowne Primary Academy: Caretaker job summary

Caretaker Required

Salary: GLC Point 12 - 16 £24,173 - £26,569 FTE [Actual Pro Rata Salary £22,685 - £24,933]

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: 15 hours per week, Term time only plus 4 weeks holiday working [48.8 paid weeks]

Closing Date: 10 January 2025

The Gateway Learning Community [GLC] is a partnership between one secondary and four primary schools located within Tilbury and Chadwell in the borough of Thurrock to the east of London.

We are a vibrant, innovative and highly successful organisation: the place of choice to work and learn. Across the 5 academies of the GLC, we pledge that everyone enjoys an equality of opportunity. We work tirelessly to ensure that individual different characteristics including age, ethnicity, socio-economic background, academic ability, disability, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation are not discriminated against in any way. We create environments characterised by mutual respect where difference is celebrated and where individual differences don't act as a barrier to success.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic caretaker to join our site team at Lansdowne Primary Academy. The successful candidate may be required to support other GLC schools if the need is required. Experience is desirable but we are prepared to offer training for the right candidate.

We warmly welcome applicants who are interested in this position to arrange a visit prior to making an application.

Watch our video for an insight in to our academy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNTalGAxd8Q

Click here to view our Recruitment Brochure

You can read our latest Ofsted Report here: http://www.theglc.org.uk/879/ofsted-reports

Additional Benefits for Working for the GLC:

Staff well-being programme: Including access to Perkbox and Westfield Health Insurance

Salary Sacrifice Schemes including Electric Car Scheme and Cycle to work Scheme

Long service awards after: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and years of service

State of the art facilities and access to high quality resources to support learning

A paid 'My Day' each year

Excellent career development and training

2-week October half term break

A supportive central team [reprographics, ICT, HR, Finance] which enables teachers to focus on teaching

Paid opportunities to teach during school holiday clubs

Subsidised holiday provision for children of staff

Free access to the Gateway Academy fitness suite

We warmly welcome applicants who are interested in this position to arrange a visit prior to making an application. Please contact Kathryn.Luckin@theglc.org.uk to arrange a visit.

If you would like to apply for this position, please complete an online application form.

Applications will be considered as they are received, so early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview early applicants should a suitable candidate apply.

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.