Caretaker at Larkmead School

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Expired
  Job Reference #
EDV/2025/LS/36896
  Location
Faringdon Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1RF
  Contract Type
Permanent
  Contract Term
Full-Time
  Salary
£26,824.00 Annually (Actual)
Starting salary NJC Grade 6 - SCP 8 pay progression following successful probation.
  Closing Date
11:59pm, 30th Nov 2025
  Start Date
To be agreed
  Positions Available
1
   Positions Available        1
  Interview Date(s)
To be confirmed
   Interview Date(s)           To be confirmed

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About this Role

Larkmead School is seeking to appoint a Caretaker to assist our Site Manager in ensuring that the school premises are maintained and developed to the highest possible standard so as to provide a safe and stimulating environment for teaching and learning. The successful applicant will possess an enthusiastic, helpful and flexible manner, with the ability to deal easily with the full range of adults and students who may use or visit the school. This is a 52 week role, working 13:45 - 21.45 Mon-Thurs, 13:45 - 21:15 Friday.  Some additional hours maybe available at weekends for premises lettings.

Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice.  Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration.  Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions.  Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive.  The Larkmead promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.

 We offer:

  • an excellent programme of induction and training which seeks to provide an excellent foundation for career progression
  • a forward thinking environment which recognises the benefits of considering flexible working patterns
  • a friendly, caring, supportive and collaborative team environment
  • a professional environment dedicated to Teaching and Learning with a supportive, dedicated and hardworking staff
  • Commitment to a positive culture and robust positive behaviour management
  • A commitment to recognise previous, continuous service.
  • A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
  • A Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Eligible for Blue Light discount card
  • Free parking
  • Free Eye Care Voucher 

Larkmead is a school with clear, positive values, which add positive value to our students and staff.  We are a diverse community and greatly value the contribution that colleagues from different backgrounds and with different experiences bring to our school.

If this sounds like the sort of opportunity and environment you are looking for in your career journey and you feel that you possess these attributes, then we very much look forward to meeting you.  

Please do not hesitate to get in touch and visit the school prior to making a formal application.

The school reserves the right to consider and interviews candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate.  An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

Larkmead School is a member of the Cambrian Learning Trust.  Cambrian Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.  Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools' community.


Contact Details

  Laura Hitchings
  01235520141
  LHitchings@LAR.CambrianLT.org


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