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We are supporting a prestigious school in Newcastle who require a dedicated and enthusiastic Caretaker to join their existing caretaking team in providing a high quality and responsive custodial service for all the school’s facilities.
The School’s Caretaking Team is part of a multi-disciplined Facilities Team consisting of four Caretakers, two Maintenance Staff, three grounds staff and twenty-four Domestic Staff. The successful candidate will be required to provide custodial, security and first-line maintenance services for the whole School.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
SAFEGUARDING
- All staff have a responsibility and duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of students
SECURITY & EMERGENCY
- Ensure the health and safety of pupils, staff and visitors.
- Ensure that the buildings and school site are secure.
- Responding to and resetting the school’s alarms.
CAR PARK MANAGEMENT
- Prevent unauthorised parking and access.
- Control the safety of pedestrians
- Give directional advice to visitors.
REPORTING
- Report incidents, hazards and maintenance needs to the Head of Facilities & Estates and Facilities Services Manager and record these in relevant logs.
GENERAL DUTIES
- General porterage duties.
- Receive and check goods.
- Support the setting up for events and clearing away afterwards.
- Monitor emergency lights, portable firefighting equipment and fire alarm tests.
- Ensure clear passage is maintained on fire escape routes
- Ensure plant rooms are tidy with no flammable materials.
- Ensure all materials, tools and equipment are in a safe condition.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES
- Provide escorts to parents, contractors and visitors.
- Minor joinery and plumbing repairs.
- Routine maintenance of the swimming pool.
- Monitor water quality.
- Driving and regular checks of van and minibuses.
- Deliveries
- Covering for grounds staff.
- Checking for damage and faults
- Front line maintenance of heating and ventilation systems.
- Front line maintenance and clearing of drains, roof gutters and down pipes.
- Undertake any other reasonable duties.
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- A commitment to supporting the school’s ethos.
- A good knowledge and understanding of the caretaking role.
- A strong appreciation of the health and safety issues.
- A clean valid driving licence (preferably including Class D1).
- A commitment to undertake training.
- A professional, positive and enthusiastic approach to work including:
- Good timekeeping.
- Tidy appearance.
- Confident and courteous in dealing with all stakeholders.
- Good verbal and written skills.
- A flexible and adaptive approach
Desirable
- Experience of working in a school or similar environment.
- First Aid training/willingness to undertake it.
- Manual Handling experience/training.
- Working at heights experience/training.
- Basic IT skills
MAIN TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- 40 hours per week. 8-hour shifts between 6am and 10pm, Monday to Friday, all year round. There are 4 different shifts on a rota system, agreed in advance.
- To work one weekend in four.
- To opt out of the Working Time Regulations and agree to work for more than an average of 48 hours a week over a 17-week period at certain times.
- Holidays - Annual Leave of 31 days plus Bank Holidays (5 days at Christmas)
- The Caretaker is entitled to a 30-minute unpaid lunch break.
- The salary is circa 28.9k gross per annum for 40 hours/week which is inclusive of an 11% shift allowance.
