Part-time Caretaker
Charters School, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9QY20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 March 2026 at 9am
Date listed
3 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £10,413.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 3 Point 5, FTE £27502
Part-time Caretaker job summary
We are seeking a reliable and proactive Caretaker to join our site team and contribute to the smooth running of our busy secondary school. This essential role supports the Facilities Manager in ensuring the safety, security, cleanliness, and maintenance of our buildings and grounds. Key duties include site security, portering, basic repairs, assisting with lettings, and daily caretaking tasks to help keep our learning environment safe and welcoming.
The successful candidate will have previous experience in a premises support or site assistant role, strong DIY skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Shift work is required, including early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends.
We offer a competitive salary, access to a contributory local government pension scheme and other staff benefits. Colleagues benefit from a commitment to staff well-being and are provided with several schemes to support them maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. We have a priority admission policy for children of staff working at the school.
Working hours: 15 hours per week, term time plus 4 weeks (42 weeks per year)
If you're practical, dependable, and ready to make a positive difference in a vibrant school community, we would love to hear from you.
Charters School is dedicated to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. All applicants will be subject to appropriate child protection and safeguarding checks relevant to the role, which will include references from previous employers, a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and social media screening.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Charters School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1715 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Charters School website
Charters School is a very heavily over-subscribed 11-18 Comprehensive Academy School with 1720 students on roll (including 400+ in the Sixth Form) located in Sunningdale. It has been graded an “outstanding” school on two successive occasions and is a dynamic, high-achieving secondary school where students are polite, motivated to succeed and enjoy their education.
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