Caretaker - 2 form entry Primary School and Nursery
St Catherine's RC School
Barnet
- £29,763 - £31,074 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Barnet Unified Reward Grade D.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- March 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 January 2025
Job overview
Hours: 36 hrs p/w, all year round
In preparation for forthcoming retirement of our much-loved caretaker, we are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious and self-motivated Caretaker who will play a key role in further enhancing our school site so that we have the highest standards in safety and cleanliness to welcome the whole community.
About you:
- Are you someone who is reliable, proactive, hardworking and flexible with a positive outlook on life?
- Have you got good organisational skills – with the ability to plan, schedule and evaluate your own work?
- Do you take a genuine pride in your place of work- have you got DIY skills and the ability to competently carry out minor repairs, general maintenance and decorating?
- Will you be able to demonstrate good inter-personal skills with all members of our school community – children, parents/carers, colleagues, governors and the many visitors that come to St Catherine’s?
- Do you enjoy learning new skills and keeping up to date with procedures? We will need you to be jointly responsible for Health and Safety on site, and that includes security and maintenance systems.
- Are you able to use a PC and operate ICT software?
- Are you committed to being fully involved in all aspects of school life at St Catherine’s – upholding our Catholic ethos and values on a day to day basis and at special weekend and evening events too?
Yes? Then why don’t you apply to be the caretaker in our friendly school!
We can offer:
- A supportive Business Manager who will carry out a comprehensive induction.
- A friendly staff who work together and support one another.
- Governors who are understanding and ambitious for our school
- A caring school community with supportive families and a thriving parents association
- A commitment to your ongoing training
- 30 days annual leave and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
Shift Pattern:
Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 12.30 (break 10.00 to 10.30) and then 16.00 to 18.15
Further ad-hoc overtime hours will be necessary for occasional evening meetings and PTA events at the school.
Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. Please call us to make an appointment with Kim McKenzie our School Business Manager, office@stcatherines.barnetmail.net or 020 8440 4946. Visits may take place from w/c 6th January 2025.
St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such all offers of employment will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks. The school is also committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery
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About St Catherine's RC School
At St.Catherine’s we are committed to providing children of nursery and primary school ages with a child centered learning environment where all children flourish socially, emotionally, academically, physically and spiritually. Each child is encouraged to achieve their full potential and celebrate their uniqueness. At the heart of this is our strong caring ethos based on mutual respect and gospel values. The school actively promotes the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
St Catherine’s was considered by Ofsted as outstanding in Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes in 2022. Our children achieve in the top 20% of the country in reading, writing and maths. This confirms our commitment to high standards and expectations for all pupils.
Our children and their families tell us pupils are happy and feel safe. We encourage strong home school links where communication is key. We operate an open door policy where all members of our professional teaching and leadership team are available to discuss the children's progress/welfare. We pride ourselves on the strong partnerships we have built with all members of our community.
Key features of our school are:
- A creative, dynamic curriculum which takes account of the interest and needs of our diverse community.
- Newly opened Performing Arts Hub and a modern learning environment.
- Exciting playground with a multi use games area and a curriculum garden in which the children grow their own vegetables.
- Music specialist teaching from nursery to Year 6, school orchestra and choir.
- Language specialist teaching French from years 1 to 6.
- Specialist sports coach 5 days per week
- Forest School with dedicated Forest School Teacher
- New ipads and laptops for children and staff
- Successful PHSE programme where all pupils are encouraged to support each other including peer mentoring and a School Council.
- Exciting and varied class visits to support the curriculum.
- A commitment to wellbeing throughout the school
- Gold awards in Sports, Sustained Physical Activity, Emotional Health and Wellbeing and Rights and Respecting
Finally, it is the strong and committed team of staff, parents and governors which make our school the happy and successful place it is.
We are very proud of the standards of education and pupil engagement at St Catherine’s and our children are a testament to that.
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