Caretaker (Secondary)

Ark The King's School; Pontefract; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension (LGPS)

Family friendly policies with work/lif

Blue Light Card

Employee wellbeing programme

Free flu vaccinations

Job summary

The Kings School in Pontefract is recruiting a committed Caretaker to help provide a safe, well maintained environment for students and staff. You will carry out reactive maintenance tasks, support cleaners, and help maintain security across the site.

The role is 22.5 hours per week all year round on a permanent contract with a rotating short-term pattern. The successful candidate will join a friendly school community and benefit from a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Commitment to maintaining a safe, clean, and well managed school environment.
• Ability to manage and supervise cleaning staff and ensure duties are carried out to a high standard.

Responsibilities

• The management and delivery of reactive maintenance tasks
• Undertaking compliance tasks as required and recording evidence on a computerised system
• Providing day to day supervision to a team of cleaners, ensuring duties are carried out to the highest standards
• Maintaining site security through locking and unlocking the school’s buildings, setting the security alarm and other security systems where applicable.

Job description

Make a difference every day – join our fantastic team at The Kings School!

We are seeking to appoint a committed Caretaker at The Kings School. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in providing a well maintained, safe, secure, and clean working environment for the school. They will undertake activities to maintain a safe and clean internal and external environment, and undertake routine checks as required.

Key responsibilities:

1. The management and delivery of reactive maintenance tasks
2. Undertaking compliance tasks as required and record evidence on a computerised system
3. Providing day to day supervision to a team of cleaners, ensuring duties are carried out to the highest of standards
4. Maintaining site security through locking and unlocking the school’s buildings, setting the security alarm and other security systems where applicable.

This is a 22.5hours per week, all year round, permanent contract. The successful candidate will be on a daily split shift pattern with rotating weeks:

Week 1:Wednesday - 6:00 am - 2:00pm, Thursday - 6:00 am -2:00pm, Friday - 6:00 am -2:00pm

Week 2:Wednesday - 11:00 am – 7:00pm, Thursday - 11:00 am – 7:00pm, Friday - 11:00 am – 7:00pm

About The King’s School

The King’s School is a warm, supportive and hardworking place to be, where students are respectful, friendly and a pleasure to work around. While we’re proud of our strong academic reputation, we’re just as proud of the positive, caring atmosphere that runs throughout the school.

Our staff describe The King’s School as a workplace where people look out for one another and where every role makes a real difference. Our recent staff survey reflects a strong sense of teamwork, trust and appreciation across the whole school community.

If you’re looking to join a friendly, supportive school community where every member of staff is valued, The King’s School is a fantastic place to work.

For more information, please visit our website.

What can we offer you?

Be part of a team that values your wellbeing, development and work–life balance. As a member of our school community, you’ll benefit from:

1. Exciting career and leadership pathways supported by outstanding CPD opportunities
2. Everyday Development (EDD) Framework: A simple, personal and flexible goal-based approach to continuous learning, career growth and wellbeing
3. For the 2026/27 academic year, we have provided staff with three Everyday Development (EDD) days, the next is on Friday 11th December 2026. These development days will offer you self-directed time away from the workplace to recharge and reflect on your personal and career goals
4. Generous employer pension (West Yorkshire Pension Fund – LGPS)
5. Fantastic family friendly policies with a focus on employee work/life balance
6. Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest- free loans available for travel seasons tickets or a bike, gym discounts and free eye tests
7. Blue Light Card
8. Employee wellbeing programme (including physiotherapy, personal or professional concerns on legal, health, finance, wellbeing, and other matters)
9. Free flu vaccinations.

About Ark

There are 34,000 students learning in our network of 48 schools across Birmingham, Hastings, London, Pontefract and Portsmouth. We’ve always believed that, with the right approach, every child has the potential to succeed. We work in the communities where we can make the biggest difference to children’s lives, and all our schools are non-selective.

It works: our schools achieve great results – significantly outperforming national averages, especially when it comes to driving progress – the best measure for ‘closing the gap’.

We take what we learn in our schools to develop new solutions and approaches that we can share. Over the last two decades, we have developed and incubated more than 20 projects and programmes, supporting them to scale and achieve systemic impact on the life chances of all children. Over 300,000 children currently learn using an Ark curriculum and our Ark Start nurseries are demonstrating a new model for early years education that we hope will become the norm.

Further information

If you have any questions about this position or the application process, please do not hesitate to contact us on the below details

1. 01977 601701
2. [e-mail]