Multi-Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker

Teaching Vacancies; St. Austell; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A Multi Academy Trust in St. Austell is seeking a Multi-Site Maintenance/Caretaker to ensure high standards of building maintenance. You will manage both planned and reactive maintenance to comply with safety standards. Ideal candidates should have experience in building maintenance, including skills in carpentry, plumbing, and people management. The role offers competitive benefits including health and wellbeing support, pension, and ongoing training.

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of building maintenance in a school environment.
• Ability to demonstrate skills in carpentry, electrical, and plumbing work.
• Must be organized and self-motivated.

Responsibilities

• Organise and carry out planned and reactive maintenance across sites.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and health and safety standards.
• Maintain properties to a high standard.

Skills

Building maintenance

Carpentry

Lock fixing

Electrical work

Plumbing

Painting and decorating

People management

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

To cover St Austell/Liskeard

We are seeking an organised and self-motivated individual to provide a high standard of premises maintenance. You will be required to organise and carry out both planned and reactive maintenance across the Trust ensuring compliance with both regulatory and health and safety standards. The primary purpose of the Multi-Site Maintenance/Caretaker is to maintain the properties to a high level and ensure the buildings are kept in optimum working condition.

The Multi-Site Maintenance Staff/Caretaker will be expected to have a good standard of practical knowledge, skills and experience of building maintenance work in a school or similar environment. You should be able to demonstrate general working skills in carpentry, fixing locks, electrical, plumbing, drainage, painting, decorating and people management.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description.

What the school offers its staff

• Health & Wellbeing
• Pension
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Parking

Further details about the role

Who We Are

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.