Non-residential Caretaker
St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4TDThis job expired on 28 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible - subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 8am
Date listed
17 March 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
- £25,889.00 - £27,115.00 Annually (Actual) H4 Grade
Non-residential Caretaker job summary
We are looking for a non-residential caretaker on a full-time, permanent contract. For details of the role please refer to the Application Pack and Job Description.
Contract: Full-time, Permanent contract
Grade: H4
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year with rotating shift pattern
Current weekly rota is 3 days per week: one day from 7 am - 3 pm / 8 am – 4pm, and two days from 2 pm to 10 pm
Evening shift is only required every other week, as this will be shared among yourself and two other Non-residential caretakers in the team
Working one weekend in every four, with time off in lieu
On call required for two days each month
About our Site Team
The Site team is leaded by the Site Manager and currently comprises of a Senior Residential Caretaker and two Non-residential Caretakers. The role of Site Team includes repair and maintenance, health and safety auditing, site security, porterage, keeping the site clean and tidy, minor building work, oversight of the school vehicles and setting up for functions and events, both for internal and external use. Our team work both individually and collectively to ensure that the facilities of the school remain in good order.
The team work on a shift pattern to cover the school premises’ operational hours from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm (Mondays to Fridays), and from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm / 4:00 pm (Saturdays and Sundays).
We offer:
- Additional training and support
- Ongoing professional development
- Free Lunch on working days
- Free parking on school site
- Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym
- Staff Wellbeing Programme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy
Selection Process
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a face-to-face interview. In addition, candidates may be required to complete tasks specific to the job role.
Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)
St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
Online Searches
We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.
Right to work in UK
We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.
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.
About St George's School
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1384 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St George's School website
DO YOU WANT TO WORK WHERE YOU FEEL YOU BELONG?
TEN GREAT REASONS TO JOIN THE ST GEORGE'S TEAM
1. Be part of a vibrant, inspiring and supportive team
2. Everyone’s contributions are valued and encouraged
3. A place where your work will ‘make a difference’ and be appreciated by pupils
4. Learning is what we do; with passion
5. Unique opportunity to work in one of the leading state boarding schools in the country
6. Students champion and promote our community’s high standards and aspirations
7. Excellent behaviour is the norm, not the exception
8. Career development is encouraged and supported through great training
9. A sense of belonging; part of a community and the St George’s ‘Family’
10. Where the worst thing about work is going home at night
Working at St George’s also comes with a number of free additional fringe benefits*: childcare voucher scheme; Employee Assistance Programme; on-site parking; access to excellent sports and fitness facilities and provision of lunch. On-site accommodation for specific posts may also available at reduced rates.
* Staff terms and conditions are liable to review and change from time to time
In 2014 OFSTED wrote that "This school has got the magic formula", and we have to say we agree!
St George’s is a unique place to work. It is the perfect blend of high quality, innovative teaching and a community which cares. It has a highly supportive pastoral system as well as a residential state boarding community, all of which is firmly cemented in our Christian principles and strong commitment to our values of mutual respect, endeavour and sense of community. We hold on to our tradition and embrace the future with equal relish.
St George’s is consistently in the top percentile of schools nationally for academic performance and rated outstanding by Ofsted. However we are not driven by such external measures but by our passion to provide the best learning and life experience we can for the pupils entrusted to our care.
We hope that you will share our enthusiasm and drive to continue to make St George’s an exciting place to work and learn.
Join us for a career at a school that certainly wants us to "Aim Higher".
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