Caretaker

Longridge High; Longridge; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Longridge High School on the outskirts of Longridge invites applications for a highly motivated and organised caretaker/cleaner to support the maintenance and smooth running of the school site.

The role involves monitoring daily/weekly compliance to agreed quality standards, ensuring site security and efficient use of resources, and reporting to the Operations Manager on required spending and service needs.

Qualifications

• Experience working within a school environment.
• Calm, organised with ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Confident communicator with staff and external organisations.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve the maintenance of the school site.
• Play a key part in caretaking/cleaning operations.
• Monitor daily/weekly compliance to quality standards; report spending needs.

Skills

School environment

Calm & organised

Communication

Job description

Longridge High School is situated on the outskirts of Longridge, a smallmanufacturing and market town between Preston and the Ribble Valley. We have 50+teaching staff and approximately 830 pupils. The school serves the localcommunity and has a large catchment area encompassing neighbouring villages, alarge rural district, and urban areas of Preston. The school was originallybuilt in 1959, with additional accommodation added in subsequent years. Schoolfacilities have been continuously updated and refurbished and the school has anew purpose-built teaching block to take on additional pupil numbers.

We prepare every young person for life through a consistent approach toexcellent behaviour, good manners, and hard work, embodied in our school’s corevalues ‘Respect, Learn, Grow, Together’.

We are looking for:

A highly motivated and organised individual to support and improve themaintenance of our school. The ideal candidate will play a key part in thesmooth running of the caretaking/cleaning operations of the school. Monitoringdaily/weekly compliance, to the agreed quality standards, ensuring security ofthe site and related resources. Reporting to the Operations Manager regardingany requested spending on items and services required.

• Do you have the experience working within a school environment
• Do you have a calm, organised nature with the ability to work to strictdeadlines
• Are you a positive, flexible and motivated individual
• Do you have the ability to confidently communicate effectively with allmembers of school, staff and other organisations