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Senior Caretaker - Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJ18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
4 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, 40 weeks (TTO, plus 5 INSET days and one additional week to be agreed)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £21,774 to £22,612 (dependent on service and experience)
What skills and experience we're looking for
As Senior Caretaker, you will be responsible for managing caretaking services to all buildings forming the school site, ensuring a safe and secure environment. You will have responsibility for undertaking minor or temporary maintenance and repairs and managing school caretaking/premises staff and holding budgetary responsibility for this. You will be responsible to the Headteacher or nominated representative for the effective provision of caretaking, cleaning and site maintenance routines and responding to emergencies relating to the site as necessary. You will contribute to establishing and maintaining a culture of safeguarding children and contribute to the school’s statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
General Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibility for others:
The post has some impact on the well-being of individuals or groups (ie physical, mental, social, health and safety).
Responsibility for physical resources:
The post has considerable responsibility for cleaning, maintenance and repair of a range of equipment or buildings and / or responsibility for security of buildings.
TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BAND E, THE POST MUST MEET AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
Responsibility for staff:
The post has direct responsibility for a team of employees, including recruitment, work allocation and performance management
Responsibility for budget:
The post has some direct responsibility for financial resources, including placing orders, verifying invoices and monitoring expenditure against a specific budget.
TYPICAL TASKS
Security:
- Carry out security procedures for the school buildings and grounds
- Routine and non routine opening and closing and security of premises and grounds
- Take action to prevent trespass on the premises
- Ensure unauthorised parking of vehicles does not occur
- Act as a nominated keyholder and respond appropriately to alarm company, police call-outs and other emergencies outside normal working hours.
Cleaning:
- Ensure the premises and furnishings are cleaned in accordance with the school’s/authority’s standards, including supervising, organising and appraisal of work of cleaning staff
- Carry out regular cleaning inspection and maintaining log sheet
- Ensure floors are stripped and retreated at appropriate intervals
- Order cleaning materials and equipment
- Maintain time book, fill in claims forms etc
What the school offers its staff
What we offer
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
- Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more
Further details about the role
How to Apply
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123. The closing date for applications is midday, Wednesday 4th June 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:
- Why you would like to work at Higham Lane North Academy
- Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the School's vetting procedure. Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the School website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@hlna.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1425 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Higham Lane School website
- Email address
- jobs@hlna.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Part of the Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the CEAT trust and schools within our small trust work closely together bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We offer an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum where we value equally achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual. All students achieve well at Higham Lane School, and in 2023 our Progress 8 figure was 0.56 which is testament to how well students, teachers and parents/carers work together effectively. We are committed to ensuring that an ambitious curriculum, combined with evidence-informed teaching and learning, and excellent behaviour from students make Higham Lane School a thriving environment for all that work and study here. Our Progress 8 figure for 2023 puts us in the top 6% of state-funded mainstream schools for progress, which we are delighted with, and we are committed to building upon this fantastic achievement for our students.
We were extremely pleased to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2019, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. We are also delighted that we continue to achieve impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form with an average grade of B- placing the school within the top 4 mainstream Sixth Form schools in Warwickshire and the highest-performing in North Warwickshire, which again shows how students, staff and parents/carers work together effectively. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.
We are also very excited to be opening a new free school, Higham Lane North Academy, in September 2025. Just a mile away from Higham Lane School, there will be exciting opportunities for the two secondary schools, as part of the wider trust, to work together with many mutual benefits for both students and staff.
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to ‘Work Hard, Be Kind and Take Responsibility within the overall aim to “Be the best you can be!”
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