Caretaker

Ministry of Justice; Chesham; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days annual leave

Health & safety training provided

Job summary

The Ministry of Justice is advertising a part-time caretaker role for a school site in Chesham. Working 20 hours per week (2:30pm–6:30pm), you will provide security, undertake health and safety checks, and manage premises maintenance with some heavy lifting and DIY tasks.

Ad-hoc overtime may be required and leave is 22 days per year. The role requires proactive work, flexibility, and the ability to work with the cleaning team as needed; training for COSHH and health/safety is provided where

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining a site to a safe standard.
• Familiarity with health and safety guidelines (training provided).
• Ability to perform routine checks and respond to issues promptly.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the security of the school site.
• Be responsible for routine Health & Safety checks and statutory reviews (including COSHH, training provided).
• Be responsible for premises management and maintenance to ensure the site is kept clean and safe and in a good state of repair.
• Undertake emergency cleaning duties and support the cleaning staff where required.
• Assist with movements of deliveries, furniture or anything else around the site.
• Have a reasonable standard of DIY/maintenance experience.
• Be able to work proactively under their own initiative.
• Ideally have some experience of Health & Safety guidelines (training provided).
• Be adaptable, flexible and cheerful.

Skills

Security awareness

Health & Safety

Premises maintenance

Heavy lifting

DIY/maintenance

Adaptable

Job description

This is a part-time role, 20 hours per week (2:30pm - 6:30pm), 52 weeks per year with additional ad-hoc overtime when required. You will receive 22 days annual leave which must be taken during the school holidays. This is a physically demanding role which will require some heavy lifting / working at height. The Caretaker will:

• Maintain the security of the school site.
• Be responsible for routine Health & Safety checks and statutory reviews (including COSHH, training provided).
• Be responsible for premises management and maintenance to ensure the site is kept clean and safe and in a good state of repair.
• Undertake emergency cleaning duties and support the cleaning staff where required.
• Assist with any movement of deliveries, furniture or anything else as required around the site.
  Have a reasonable standard of DIY/maintenance experience
• Be able to work proactively under their own initiative
• Ideally have some experience of Health & Safety guidelines although training will be provided.
• Be adaptable, flexible and cheerful!
  This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled 'Exceptions Order').