Caretaker

Responsible to: Site Manager

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, all year round

Either 6am - 2pm weekdays

1pm - 9pm weekdays

Or 08.30 to 4.30 weekends

 (There is some flexibility as to which combination of the above which can be discussed at interview)

Salary: S17 - S24 depending on experience (£21,803 - £26,562)

Start date: As soon as possible

Trinity Academy is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. 

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team committed to running and maintaining an outstanding new building. In August 2021, the school moved into a £24m new build with state of the art facilities. The school’s vision is that the building will become a central hub for the local community as well as generating essential income for the school. As such, the building is let out to a vast array of community groups in the evenings and at the weekends. You will join the Site Manager and another Caretaker in helping to maintain the building in its pristine state and oversee the community groups using the building out of school hours. 

Applications are welcome from experienced caretakers or from practical people who have experience of maintenance, carpentry, plumbing, wiring. We are looking for a highly trustworthy and self-motivated individual who is happy to work on their own for much of the time. You will be passionate about maintaining the current state of the building and comfortable with carrying out a range of compliance checks. There may be opportunities for overtime. 

We are committed to your professional development. As a growing school there is considerable opportunity for career development both within the school and across the Cathedral Schools Trust.

Please read further documents for further details about the role including the job description and person specification. 

Please note that we will only consider applications through TES and will not consider CVs so please ensure that your supporting statement on the application meets the requirements of the person specification. We encourage you to be succinct and to restrict your supporting statement to no more than four pages in length. 

Closing date: 17th April 2023

Interviews: 25th April 2023

Due to the high levels of applications for roles at Trinity, we are unable to register receipt of applications. Candidates will be contacted if they are successfully shortlisted for an interview. If you have not heard from us by the interview date, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All posts at Trinity Academy are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

The school may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of the interview process.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include: 

• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.  

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.  

We are a life-friendly school and support our employees in achieving a balance in life and meeting their commitments beyond school.

For further information about our Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures, please refer to CST Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy and CST Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.