Caretaker

About this Role

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a Caretaker position, arising due to recent internal promotions. These promotions reflect our strong commitment to fostering career pathways and development opportunities for all staff. If you are passionate about maintaining high standards and eager to grow within a supportive and dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply.

Who are Habs?

We are a diverse community, and we nurture a global perspective and a deep sense of responsibility for the world in which our pupils will lead and succeed. Our broad curriculum and co-curricular provision prepare pupils for success wherever their passion may take them. Ambition, Curiosity, Courage and Community are the core beliefs that we stand for here at Habs.

Join our team and unlock your potential!

Under the direction of the Site Manager you will respond to maintenance requests, resolving defects and enabling the events in the school calendars. You will liaise with external contractors as required and conduct duties to maintain a safe and secure site. 

This is a full-time role, 40 hours per week, 5 days out of 7 at varying hours as per the shift pattern, where evening and weekend work may be required.

Responsibilities:

• Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
• Responding to maintenance requests, defect reports, and supporting the setting up of events and activities
• Marshalling of traffic at key times of the day, ensuring the safety of all pedestrians and road users
• Opening and locking up of the school site as required
• Liaising with the emergency services and responding to critical incidents as required
• Delivering mail and parcels around the school campus
• Ensuring the campus is kept tidy
• Driving of the school minibuses when required.

What We Look For:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our dedicated team of caretakers.

What we are offering:

• Salary from £25,551
• 40 days annual leave per year (including bank holidays) for full-time, year-round staff
• Free lunch and refreshments
• Additional life insurance cover
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), providing confidential support and advice
• Extensive professional development and training opportunities to enhance career growth
• Free onsite parking and access to the School’s extensive coach network
• Free access to state-of-the-art sports facilities including the gym, swimming pool, and fitness classes
• Wellbeing initiatives and programmes, such as yoga, mindfulness sessions, and health checks
• Access to an online GP service, providing quick and convenient healthcare advice
• Access to Vivup, the staff benefits platform, featuring discounts, financial advice, and wellbeing resources
• Enhanced pension scheme, offering excellent employer contributions
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme and other green travel incentives including Octopus Electric Vehicles

Applications will be reviewed as they arrive, and we reserve the right to close this vacancy sooner, please apply as soon as possible.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.