School Caretaker

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Job Title:        School Caretaker 

Location:     Shifnal School, Shifnal, Shropshire

Hours:       37.5 hours per week, Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm

Salary:            £21,000 per annum 

Contracts:    Permanent

Are you a School Caretaker who can enrich the lives of young people? 

We are looking for a responsible, hands-on School Caretaker to join our fantastic team. As the School Caretaker, you will help support our children and young people in their daily lives, by ensuring our site is well maintained and equipped to meet their needs.

General Responsibilities

• To oversee maintenance work across the school as allocated by the site manager
• To work within health and safety arrangements
• Offer a positive ‘can do’ attitude, be able to work on your own initiative (unsupervised), as well as part of a Team to maintain a high standard on the site.

​This is a great opportunity to work as part of a team committed to helping children with varied and complex needs. You will take pride in maintaining our school, from day-to-day repairs to completing risk assessments, carrying out security procedures, checking equipment and contributing to care home development projects.

For many of our children, consistency is key, and our School Caretaker’s will take time to make sure everything is as it should be for us to run smoothly and safely.

We are looking for a School Caretaker, who has some experience in a trade such as plumbing, electrics, carpentry and shares our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK, to be happy and to make their way in the world.

Previous experience in a similar role is essential but some training will be given. The right DIY skills, motivation, and personal qualities are just as important. These roles are ideal for people with skills in maintenance, DIY and health and safety, looking for a new role that makes a real difference to children’s lives and futures.

You will be quality focused, efficient, able to work at pace, and motivated to help us provide a safe, caring environment where every child can thrive. 

About us

Shifnal School provides specialist education to children with social, emotional and behaviour difficulties. We are within a commutable distance of Telford, Dudley, Stourbridge, Shrewsbury, Stone, Walsall, Wolverhampton and surrounding towns.

Acorn Care and Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education, foster care and residential care for vulnerable children and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

Why join Acorn Education & Care?

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.