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Premises Assistant (Caretaker)

Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, OX4 2AU

This job expired on 15 December 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  12th January 2026 or earlier by negotiation

• Closing date

  15 December 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  23 November 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: £25,583.28 - £26,402.68 Annually (Actual) Grade 5 SCP5-7 + weekend shift enhancement (equivalent of an additional 7.5 hours per weekend worked)

Premises Assistant (Caretaker) job summary

As part of the site team the Premises Assistant will work as part of a team to ensure that tasks allocated are completed efficiently and effectively to assist in improving the facilities on site for all users. Communicating professionally and effectively with both internal and external site users is essential, as is a can do attitude and a willingness to go the extra mile to ensure that students, colleagues and community users of our facilities have a positive experience.

The successful candidate will be responsible for site each weekday evening and one in four weekends to ensure the security, maintenance, smooth running and facilitating of all activities on site. With a busy schedule of community lettings, the role will combine the undertaking of compliance and maintenance tasks whilst overseeing activities on site outside of school hours.

Hours of work are:

10.30am-6.30pm Monday-Thursday

11am-6.30pm Friday

8am-4pm Saturday-Sunday (one weekend in four)

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’

Please be aware that we are anticipating a large number of applications, and therefore reserve the right to close the recruitment process early, we would therefore encourage you to submit your applications as soon as possible.

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.

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About Oxford Spires Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oxford Spires Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oxford-spires-academy

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