Caretaker at Grove Park Primary School

14 Days Remaining

Job Reference #

EDV/2025/GPPS/40973

Location

Hilton Drive, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 1PT

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Term

Part-Time

Salary

£12.13 -£12.21 per hour

Closing Date

11:59pm, 21st Apr 2025

Start Date

May 2025

Positions Available

Positions Available 1

Interview Date(s)

April 2025

Interview Date(s) April 2025

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About this Role

Grove Park Primary school is seeking a dedicated and proactive Caretaker to join our well-trained Site team.

This role is essential to maintaining high standards of cleanliness, maintenance, tidiness, and safety throughout our school site. Primarily based at Grove Park Primary School, but you may also be required to support across our other trust schools.

This post is part-time 20 hours a week, to be predominately worked over 2 days (Monday and Friday) for 52 weeks a year. Initially hours of work will be 7.00am-6.00pm, although flexibility will be required.

Key Responsibilities include:

Ensuring the health and safety compliance of the school site.
Maintaining site security and safeguarding pupils, staff, and visitors.
Managing / undertaking planned and unplanned maintenance tasks.
Responding to unforeseen issues to maintain a safe school environment.

This position is physical in nature and includes working outside and may involve lifting / moving furniture and equipment and you will need to be hardworking, skilled, dependable and self-motivated with a good range of practical skills.

You will need to be competent at DIY tasks and be able to work both on your own initiative and under the guidance of others.

Ideally the successful candidate will have a good trades background, and be able to work with some flexibility, to meet the needs of the staff and maintenance schedule. Any general plumbing, electrical and / or carpentry skills would also be an advantage.

We can offer you:

A friendly and supportive team;
A healthy work-life balance;
An inclusive environment where you feel valued;
A supportive leadership team.
Excellent pension scheme
Counselling Service
Health Cashplan (after 6 months service)
Free parking
Discounted breakfast and after school club for your child (if your child attends one of our trust schools)

In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, we may bring the closing date forward. We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.

CVs will only be accepted when accompanied by a fully completed online application form. No agencies please.

Bourne Alliance MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare for all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post is subject to references and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.