Part - time Estates Caretaker

Eastwick Infant School, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT23 3PP

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  20 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £5,556.00 - £6,045.00 Annually (Actual)

Part - time Estates Caretaker job summary

This role is working 1 day a week (Monday) /52 weeks per year, starting at 6.45am to approx 2.30pm

We require a friendly, reliable, and flexible person who is conscientious and keen to make a difference and assist in keeping our premises and grounds to a high standard. You should have a good standard of maintenance experience and an understanding of health and safety parameters. Working within a school environment is desirable but not essential.

You will be responsible for general site maintenance with a varied skill set to include at least three of the following areas:

• general site maintenance (cleaning, litter picking, refilling consumables, etc.)
• able to use a variety of hand tools, drills, saws, etc.
• painting/decorating
• basic plumbing skills
• computer literate, using excel and word templates, etc.
• willing to drive a minibus
• manual handling (porterage) and working at heights (gutter cleaning)

Training can be provided on areas which you are not familiar with, where required.

THPT can offer:

An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation

Excellent benefit package to include Cycle to Work, Sainsbury’s Loyalty Discount and access to discount schemes

Fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions

Rewards and Benefits Scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

No Agencies please

SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Eastwick Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Eastwick Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eastwick-infant-school

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