Afternoon Caretaker

Job role

• Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,989.00 - £26,403.00 Annually (FTE)

Afternoon Caretaker job summary

Come and join our outstanding Nursery School and Children’s Centre.

We are looking to recruit a friendly, flexible and creative Caretaker who enjoys working with children and adults, takes pride in their work and enjoys repairs, maintenance and innovations.

The post is 15 hours per week all year round

The usual hours of this post are

Monday - Friday 3pm - 6pm or 2pm - 5pm

Further Information:

St Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre is a Centre of Excellence for under 3s and been designating as a National Teaching School. In this role we work right across the city hosting visitors, developing training and working alongside practitioners from others settings to develop the very best provision for our under 3s.

We pride ourselves on the exceptional quality of personalised provision provided for our youngest children - which holds their emotional well-being central to all we do.

Our challenge this year is to develop outdoor learning space.

We are looking for a caretaker who has:

General maintenance skills including painting and decorating

Good IT skills

Good interpersonal skills and to be able to communicate with children, staff, visitors and contractors

Experience of Health and safety systems and procedures including fire safety

Willingness to undertake appropriate training including health and safety

Able to prioritise the workload

A love for the outdoors

Enjoys having fun and thinking anything is possible!

In return we can offer:

A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart

A supportive and challenging CPD programme

Supervision, mentoring and coaching

A supportive and inclusive environment with a focus on individual’s emotional well-being and work life support

A leadership team who will invest in and care about your personal and professional development

A vibrant community, from which we draw so much and excellent partnership working

Visits are highly recommended.

We encourage potential candidates to visit the setting, prior to application, to give you the very best chance of success. Please phone the centre to make an appointment: 0117 9030337.

St Pauls particularly encourages applications from suitably qualified Black and Minority Ethnic candidates and those who speak community languages, although all applications are warmly welcomed and will be considered on their merits.

Safeguarding and Child Protection is central to our work and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.Visas cannot be sponsored.If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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