Multi-Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker
Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Hours 20 - Monday to Friday - 52 weeks a year 2pm to 6pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,316 - £30,145
Actual salary
- £14,765 - £16,295
Pay scale
- NJC 7 - NJC 13
What skills and experience we're looking for
Hours - 20 hours per week - Monday to Friday - 14.00pm - 18.00pm
Expected Star Date ASAP
This is a multi‑site role, requiring the successful candidate to work across academies from Bodmin, Cornwall through to Dartington, Devon, with occasional travel to other Trust academies when required.
We are seeking a skilled and dependable Multi‑Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker to help maintain our academies to an exceptional standard. In this hands‑on role, you will organise and carry out both planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring our buildings remain safe, compliant, and in optimum working condition. From routine checks to essential repairs, your work will directly support the smooth running of our educational environments.
You will bring strong practical skills and experience across a range of building maintenance tasks, including basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, drainage, lock fixing, and painting and decorating. A good understanding of the challenges involved in maintaining an educational setting would be beneficial.
Alongside technical ability, you will demonstrate strong awareness of Health & Safety, COSHH regulations, risk management, record‑keeping, contractor supervision, site security, and the ongoing upkeep of grounds and external areas. You will communicate effectively, interact professionally with staff and visitors, and play an essential role within our wider Estates Team.
This is a multi‑site role, requiring the successful candidate to work across academies from Bodmin, Cornwall through to Dartington, Devon, with occasional travel to other Trust academies when required.
The successful applicant will be someone who embodies our Trust values, has diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.
For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and we may carry out an online check.
We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role, please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.
What the school offers its staff
The Benefits
Health & Wellbeing
Pension
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free Parking
Further information about the job
Who We Are
Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.
We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.
We Aim To
- Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
- Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
- We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
- Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
- Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Wave Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.
We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.
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