Part Time, Permanent, Caretaker
St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Barrow, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 4AA4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
15 July 2025
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
- £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata £7,845.98 (term-time, plus four weeks)
Part Time, Permanent, Caretaker job summary
St Pius X is part of Mater Christi Multi-Academy Trust. St Pius X is a welcoming school, at the heart of its community, with dedicated staff, who have excellent relationships with pupils and their families. Building on the good work already started, we are committed to continue moving our rapidly improving school forward by strengthening our curriculum, providing a wide range of enrichment activities and improving outcomes for our pupils.
The Governors of St Pius X seek to appoint a loyal, helpful and self-motivated Caretaker, to ensure our school is safe, clean and tidy.
Being a Catholic school, our curriculum and ethos are based upon the key teachings of our faith, centred on our core Gospel Values. The successful candidate must be willing to support and promote the Catholic ethos of the school.
The successful candidate:
must have a commitment to upholding and supporting the Catholic ethos of the school.
must have a commitment to promote the Gospel Values at all times.
must have excellent communication skills.
will be required to carry out health and safety checks.
will be required to carry out/repair reported defects.
will be required to clean specific parts of the school.
must be proactive and use their initiative.
must be punctual, friendly, reliable and hardworking.
Will liaise will external contractors.
Candidates must be willing to:
-complete L1 safeguarding.
-complete PREVENT training.
read all relevant policies and procedures.
complete COSHH training.
complete IOSH training.
We can offer you:
an expanding and increasingly popular school.
keen and inquisitive children who enjoy learning.
happy, well-behaved children who enjoy coming to school.
a school that the community is proud of.
a happy and committed staff team.
a school that is committed to moving forward.
a supportive and challenging Governing Body and leadership team.
a caring school with an outstanding Catholic life and ethos, with excellent links with the Parish of Our Lady of Furness.
Mater Christi Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Mater Christi Trust will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, satisfactory pre-employment health screening and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006’.
The successful candidate will be appointed under the terms and conditions of a CES contract which they will be required to sign.
Application packs are available from the School Office.Please note that we require electronic copies of your application and supporting statement (submitted as PDFs). By providing an electronic signature on these documents you are agreeing your eSignature is viable and legally binding.
Completed applications should be emailed to admin@st-piusx.cumbria.sch.uk with the subject title ‘Caretaker Vacancy’.
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 St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Barrow
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 216 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Barrow website
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