Caretaker - Chalfont St Peter Infant School

Buckinghamshire Council; Chalfont St. Peter; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council is seeking a Full-time Caretaker for Chalfont St Peter Infant School. The role involves maintaining school buildings and grounds, ensuring security, and performing various porterage duties. Essential skills include literacy and numeracy, IT literacy, and practical DIY skills. Applicants are required to pass DBS checks. Interested candidates should contact the school office for more information.

Qualifications

• Experience in basic building maintenance and repairs.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Practical approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness of school buildings and grounds.
• Ensure security of grounds and buildings.
• Carry out maintenance and repairs as needed.
• Undertake porterage and administrative duties.
• Comply with Health & Safety regulations.

Skills

Good Levels of Literacy and Numeracy

IT Literate

Practical DIY Skills

Teamwork

Job description

Caretaker - Chalfont St Peter Infant School

Location: Chalfont St Peter

The role is Full time and looking for a start date as soon as possible

Term time only: No

Salary type: Bucks Pay

Salary Details: Range 2 band 12 - £27,770 Full time

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Interviews to be held: TBC

About us

At Chalfont St Peter Infant School we value our whole school community where great importance is placed upon mutual respect and inclusion. Every opportunity is taken to share our talents within the wider community; we regularly participate in local events and with other schools. We strongly believe a child's education involves a partnership between home and school. Through working together we give children every opportunity to develop their talents within an ethos which promotes a positive attitude towards learning coupled with a drive for excellence.

• Cleaning - Ensuring all school buildings and grounds are cleaned to agreed standards and specifications
• Site and Grounds maintenance - Ensuring the maintenance of all school buildings, grounds, utilities and any repairs are properly carried out
• Security - Keeping all grounds and buildings secure
• Porterage - Undertaking various porterage administrative and letting duties
• Health & Safety - Ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety regulations in respect of matters affecting Cleanliness, Security and maintenance of all school buildings and grounds

For further information please see attached Job description.

About you

Good Levels of Literacy and Numeracy, IT Literate Essential, Practical DIY Skills necessary to undertake general Building and maintenance, minor repairs and porterage duties, A practical approach to problem solving, Experience working in a team

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.

Please send completed application forms to the email address below.

As a school we are committed to the Safeguarding and protection of our children; this post is subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.

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).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.

Reference number BUC14323

Contract type Permanent

Working hours Full Time

Level of DBS check required Enhanced with Barred List

Date posted 16 Nov 2025, 11 p.m.

Contact email [e-mail]