Lettings Caretaker

Salary: Grade 3, £24,338 - £25,403 per annum, pro rata

About us and the role

Please Note: This role is for a fixed-term period of 6 months and candidates will be required to work 20 hours per week.

Join our team as a Lettings Caretaker and play a key role in ensuring our facilities are ready to shine!

Reporting to the Lettings Officer, you’ll manage site access, maintain equipment, and oversee bookings, delivering excellent service to staff, students, parents and any other member of the community.

This role may include evening, weekend, and school holiday attendance, this role is perfect for someone reliable, organised, and proactive.

If you take pride in creating a welcoming environment, love problem-solving, and align with our school’s unique ethos, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

What will you do?

• Open and close the premises for scheduled bookings, ensuring security
• Maintain equipment and ensure facilities are clean, tidy, and presentable
• Perform basic cleaning after events and liaise with contractors as needed
• Check facilities after bookings to ensure standards are met and address any issues
• Provide excellent customer service, including showing clients around and resolving queries or complaints

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

What are we looking for?

• Experience of working with relevant age group within a learning environment
• A good understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities
• Ability to communicate well, with adults and children across the Trust
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.