School Caretaker
Blossom House School
Merton
- £21,000 - £25,200 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Depending on Experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2023
Job overview
Blossom House is an Ofsted-rated “Outstanding” specialist school for children aged 3 – 19 years of age with speech, language and communication difficulties.
We have a great opportunity for a School Caretaker to join our Operations Team. Proactive, reliable and friendly, you will be responsible for maintaining a good, safe internal and external environment across multiple sites for our pupils and staff.
We offer:
· A supportive working environment in a newly refurbished building.
· Continued professional development.
· Great staff benefits and a friendly nurturing environment.
The ideal candidate will:
· Have a thorough knowledge and experience of site maintenance and facilities management issues
· Be pro-active, confident and friendly.
· Have the ability to gather information, problem solve and use own initiative.
· Be used to effectively organising their own time whilst being flexible enough to respond to urgent requests.
· Have good inter-personal skills, used effectively when supervising the Maintenance Team, inter-acting with pupils, staff and visitors.
· Be willing to personally complete caretaker duties which include portering, cleaning and maintenance such as; painting, moving equipment and goods, setting up rooms, general DIY, garden and site maintenance and preventative maintenance duties.
· Have a clean and current driving licence.
The role is full-time Monday to Friday (Occasional Saturdays) 9 hours per day with variable start and finish times with expectation of out of hours working on an as needed basis.
The role will be based primarily at Motspur Park, however, the individual may be required to work across our other sites in Euston and Wimbledon.
Competitive salary dependent on experience
25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
Closing Date: 6th January 2023
Start Date: ASAP
Salary Depending On Experience (between £21,000 - £25,200)
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About Blossom House School
- Blossom House School
- Station Road, Motspur Park, New Malden
- London
- KT3 6JJ
- United Kingdom
Blossom House is a very special place to work, not just because of our wonderful team of staff, but also because of the satisfaction of supporting the development of our fantastic pupils. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in November 2023, we aim to continually evolve our working environment to ensure we remain an outstanding place to work.
We believe in the importance of supporting our staff in all ways and we are committed to investing in your personal development, giving you the opportunity to undertake external courses as well as offering training in INSET. We have a Learning Teaching and Therapy Support Team in place to offer one to one coaching if required.
All assistants currently have the opportunity to obtain a City & Guilds accredited training course in Behaviour Support Management while working here. We also deliver the Elklan course which is an accredited speech and language training programme aimed at professionals working in schools.
We also acknowledge any stress that may be experienced through working in this environment. To support our teaching staff, therapists and other staff, we offer sports activities (including yoga and football) and an employee assistance programme which includes one to one counselling.
When you join the team at Blossom House, you’ll benefit from:
- A modern, climate-controlled working environment at Motspur Park.
- Well-equipped teaching rooms with interactive whiteboards.
- Ample underground car parking and good transport links at Motspur Park, while our Euston school is within walking distance from London Euston rail station.
- Small classes (maximum of 10 but usually less).
- Learning Support Assistant in every class.
- A wellbeing programme that includes a £60 termly wellbeing allowance.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- An independent employee assistance programme.
- UK Healthcare cash plan designed to help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optical and dental bills and offers cashback (up to policy limits) for a variety of different medical treatments. It also offers lifestyle benefits and discounted gym membership.
- Free lunch once a week and ample drinks and snacks in our comfortable staff room.
- Cycle scheme and Tech scheme.
- End of term parties and gifts.
Comments from our staff
‘I was going to give up teaching until I joined Blossom, 8 years later and still learning new things and enjoying it.’
‘It’s nice to feel part of a community where care is at its centre.’
‘Being able to work as such a close team, with so much support, is brilliant.’
‘Everyone is so friendly and the team approach makes working here so much easier.’
We are always interested in meeting friendly, competent, dedicated, suitably qualified and experienced candidates for roles at Blossom House. If you are interested in making a difference and joining our dedicated team, please send your application to recruitment@blossomhouseschool.co.uk.
Blossom House School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including an Enhanced DBS check, the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We can only shortlist based on completed applications and not CV’s alone.
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