Caretaker

Longridge High School; Longridge; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Longridge High School is seeking a highly motivated caretaker to support and improve the maintenance of the school site. The role involves ensuring smooth caretaking/cleaning operations, monitoring daily/weekly compliance, and safeguarding the site and resources.

The successful candidate will report to the Operations Manager regarding spending on items and services and must communicate effectively with staff, pupils and external organisations. Experience in a school environment is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience working within a school environment.
• Calm, organised with ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Positive, flexible and motivated with a can-do attitude.
• Able to communicate effectively with staff, pupils and external organisations.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve maintenance of the school site.
• Oversee caretaking/cleaning operations to run smoothly.
• Monitor daily/weekly compliance against quality standards.
• Report requested spending to the Operations Manager.

Skills

Organisation

Communication

Reliability

Attention to detail

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