Caretaker

Are you looking for a new opportunity? Want to make an impact at a new school at the very beginning of its journey? Spring School opening September 2023 is looking for a Caretaker to join us and help us provide an excellent education for all our learners.

The Spring School will be a part of the Ambitious about Autism Schools Trust, which was established as a multi-academy trust to develop new free schools. In 2020, the Trust was chosen to develop a new special free school for autistic children and young people in Chessington. Spring School will be a place where autistic children can learn, thrive, achieve, and belong.

Working as part of the School Business Support Team you will be responsible for all aspects of the site maintenance including a wide range of duties and responsibilities connected with the fabric and grounds of the school. This includes security, cleanliness, porterage, routine maintenance and refurbishment, minor repairs. To ensure caretaking duties and monitoring activities are undertaken in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.

Do you want to help shape the future of a brand new school? Do you have strong maintenance experience and knowledge? 

If so, we would love to hear from you!

This role will include (but not limited to):

·        Ensuring the maintenance of the school buildings, environment and grounds is efficiently carried out.

·        Manging security, cleanliness, porterage, routine maintenance and minor repairs in the school.

·        Ensuring the school is kept tidy e.g. litter picking, disinfecting bins, daily toilet checks.

·        Ensuring activities are undertaken in accordance with Health and Safety legislations.

·        To carry out repairs and DIY projects

·        Developing productive relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders across the organisation.

·        To maintain the minibus, ensuring cleanliness and basic mechanical checks

What can we offer you?

·        30 days annual leave per academic year.

·        Highly competitive salary reviewed annually.

·        Excellent CPD including a wide range of in house and external training courses.

·        Annual staff recognition awards.

·        Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.

·        Season ticket loans.

·        A wide range of wellness programmes both in person and online including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes.

·        Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.

·        Access to physiotherapy.

·        On-site parking.

This is full time permanent role which is all year around (Monday to Friday – 40 hours per week). 

Start Date- June 2023

Interview date- week beginning 27th March 2023

Closing date- 20th March 2023

If you would like to work for a forward thinking organisation and make a difference to the lives of our learners, please get in touch.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.

Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit. 

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.