Site Maintenance/Caretaker
Coppice Academy, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 2EY14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
17 March 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Working hours: 30 hours per week, 6.30am- 12.30pm Monday to Friday - Full time, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 6 SCP 20-24 £26,409 - £29,903 FTE
Actual salary
- Actual Salary: £21,412 – £24,245
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Site Maintenance/Caretaker to join our school team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation, safety, and overall appearance of our facilities and grounds.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide efficient and effective caretaking support to the school.
- Maintain the security and safety of all buildings and surrounding areas.
- Ensure the general appearance of the premises meets high standards.
- Monitor and operate heating systems to maintain optimum efficiency.
- Carry out routine maintenance tasks, repairs, and inspections.
Coppice Academy is a welcoming, warm academy which empowers all students to recognise their potential and supports them through a personalised, interestingand achievable curriculum pathway, experiencing innovative, quality teaching and learning. All students make excellent progression from their individual starting points.
At Coppice Academy we model our approach to a mainstream secondary academy where we encourage independence, responsibility through curriculum movement with an additional focus on a holistic approach for our student’s development. We pride ourselves on identifying a student’s individual needs as well as building on our community and family philosophy of being ready, safe, respectful and to always be the best we can be, to enable students to succeed and achieve at the Coppice.
Learning, Achieving and Growing Together is our mission statement.
We believe in the abilities of our students and their successes never cease to amaze us and make us proud.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our Special settings cater for children and young people with a wide range of Special Educational Needs from children with profound medical needs and life limiting conditions, those with severe, moderate and sensory needs through to young people with social emotional and mental health needs that require support and understanding to help them to navigate their world.
Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a healthcare professional or work in facilities, admin or operations all our Special Schools offer you the opportunity to work within an establishment that has a ‘family’ feel that puts the children, young people and their families at the heart of what they do.
All the pupils within our Special Schools have an individualised education and are educated in small classes and groups with enhanced support to ensure that all their needs are met. There is nothing more rewarding than being part of a team that supports a child or young person with Special Educational Needs to reach their goals. You truly will make a difference to the life of a young person and their family.
Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on workingfull time, all year- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holidayrising to 39 daysafter 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help yougrow, contributeandflourishin your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
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 Coppice Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 112 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Coppice Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
At Coppice Academy every student plays their part in making ours a unique learning environment. Each young person has talents which we recognise and encourage, relationships and friendships to develop, challenges to overcome and a bright future ahead of them to look forward to.
Our team of highly trained, enthusiastic staff provide each student with an exciting, individualised learning programme which engages, motivates and fosters a love of learning. Students are continually supported and encouraged to become the best they can be; academically and personally.
Well-equipped classrooms, excellent quality of care and cohesive multi agency working ensure that the diverse needs of all our students can be met. We provide opportunities to learn in the community and develop vocational skills to empower students to become meaningful contributors to society.
Our mission is ‘Learning, Achieving and Growing Together’. We believe in the abilities of our students and their successes never cease to amaze us and make us proud. Students leave Coppice Academy ready for the next phase of their lives; going on to Further Education, college, employment, independent living and university.
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