Premises Maintenance Person/Caretaker
Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RGThis job expired on 7 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 28163
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Premises Maintenance Person/Caretaker to provide site assistance to our exiting premises team.
About The Role: As a proactive problem solver you will work under the instruction of the Site and Maintenance Manager to:
- Arrange, identify and prioritise maintenance, caretaking and cleaning requirements and organise work programmes ensuring that they are carried out in a timely manner and with minimal disruption to the working of the school.
- Carry out routine inspections, testing and maintenance on site equipment and systems.
- Carry out first line repairs on windows, fencing, internal furnishings and rooms
- Work alongside the Caretaking team to assist with setting up of school events, open up/lock up, basic grounds maintenance and cleaning as
- required
About You:
- Experienced in buildings maintenance and associated tasks for testing and repairs
- Knowledge of relevant H&S procedures and compliance
- A quick learner, with a positive attitude to continual improvement
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Able to work within a team, developing strong working relationships with colleagues.
To Apply: Please download the candidate pack for the full job description, available on our website. For safeguarding reasons we are unable to accept lone CV's, so we ask that you please complete the application form downloadable via our website (or complete via Essex Schools jobs online), and submit to us.
Applications Deadline: 7th July 2025
Start date: As soon as possible
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. The need to appoint quickly means we reserve the right to appoint at any time.
Contact: recruitment@shsb.org.uk or telephone 01702 606 200.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits:
- Auto-enrolment into a contributory pension scheme (LGPS for support staff, employer contribution 25%)
- Free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme
- CPD through internal and external providers (including a subscription to National College)
- Employee Support Programme offering retail discounts and vouchers, a 24/7 confidential advice line, and counselling.
- Specsavers Eye care vouchers
- Free use of the sports facilities
Key terms: Hours: 37 hours per week. Exact working hours are negotiable with the successful candidate but are likely to be 7.30 – 15.30. Full time
Duration: Permanent
Annual leave: The annual holiday entitlement for this post starts at 25 days plus bank holidays (April to March) Location: Based on site within the school
Remuneration: The Essex Schools’ Local Government Scale 6, Point 13 which is £28,163 gross per annum. This is within a range of Points 13 (£28,163) to17 (£30,060).
If a shift rota system is in operation, you will be required to undertake duties in accordance with this rota. This may cover day and evening shifts and there will be a contingent liability to carry out weekend duties should it be necessary. You will be required to undertake extra duties during some evenings and sometimes at the weekends in connection with such matters as the lettings of the premises and where contractor’s workmen are on the site. It is a condition of your employment that if the premises are used, after normal hours, you will perform such duties as are required in connection with this use or undertake a fair share of such duties in conjunction with any other caretaking staff employed.
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.
About Southend High School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1325 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Southend High School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@shsb.org.uk
Southend High School for Boys (SHSB) is an ‘Outstanding’ school (Ofsted 2015), rated as outstanding against every one of the inspection criteria. It is one of four selective schools within the Borough of Southend. The main school, years 7 to 11, is single sex boys whilst the large sixth form is coeducational. It is situated thirty miles from London on the Thames Estuary and is close to main road and rail links from London, and to Chelmsford and Cambridge. SHSB has ‘an ethos of excellence in both academic achievement and a wide range of activities [that] permeates all aspects of the school’ (Ofsted 2015). At SHSB talent is nurtured, learning is valued, challenge is welcomed, participation is expected and achievement is prized. SHSB is not only a lively and stimulating institution, but also a welcoming community with an open and friendly approach.
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