Senior Caretaker

TES FE News; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Higham Lane North Academy is seeking a Senior Caretaker to manage caretaking services starting in August 2025. This role involves ensuring site security, undertaking minor repairs, and leading the caretaking staff while fostering a culture of safeguarding children. The academy prioritizes staff well-being and offers a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users

Gym Membership Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Benefits Scheme

Health Cash Plan benefit

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior level position requiring prior caretaking experience.
• Ability to manage a team and oversee maintenance duties effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage caretaking services ensuring safety and security.
• Oversee cleaning and maintenance of school premises.
• Manage financial resources related to caretaking tasks.

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Job Overview

Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Senior Caretaker for an August 2025 start.

Job Overview

Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Senior Caretaker for an August 2025 start.

As Senior Caretaker, you will be responsible for managing caretaking services to all buildings forming the school site, ensuring a safe and secure environment. You will have responsibility for undertaking minor or temporary maintenance and repairs and managing school caretaking/premises staff and holding budgetary responsibility for this. You will be responsible to the Headteacher or nominated representative for the effective provision of caretaking, cleaning and site maintenance routines and responding to emergencies relating to the site as necessary. You will contribute to establishing and maintaining a culture of safeguarding children and contribute to the school’s statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

General Duties And Responsibilities

Responsibility for others:

The post has some impact on the well-being of individuals or groups (ie physical, mental, social, health and safety).

Responsibility For Physical Resources

The post has considerable responsibility for cleaning, maintenance and repair of a range of equipment or buildings and / or responsibility for security of buildings.

Responsibility For Staff

The post has direct responsibility for a team of employees, including recruitment, work allocation and performance management

Responsibility For Budget

The post has some direct responsibility for financial resources, including placing orders, verifying invoices and monitoring expenditure against a specific budget.

TYPICAL TASKS

Security

• Carry out security procedures for the school buildings and grounds
• Routine and non routine opening and closing and security of premises and grounds
• Take action to prevent trespass on the premises
• Ensure unauthorised parking of vehicles does not occur
• Act as a nominated keyholder and respond appropriately to alarm company, police call-outs and other emergencies outside normal working hours.
  
  

Cleaning

• Ensure the premises and furnishings are cleaned in accordance with the school’s/authority’s standards, including supervising, organising and appraisal of work of cleaning staff
• Carry out regular cleaning inspection and maintaining log sheet
• Ensure floors are stripped and retreated at appropriate intervals
• Order cleaning materials and equipment
• Maintain time book, fill in claims forms etc
  
  

What We Offer

At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:

A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.

A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.

A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.

Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.

Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.

Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.

The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.

A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.

The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.

Employee Support Schemes

• Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
• A Gym Membership Scheme
• A Cycle to Work Scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
• An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
• A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more
  
  

How To Apply

Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to [e-mail], indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.

If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123. The closing date for applications is midday, Monday 30th June 2025.

Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:

• Why you would like to work at Higham Lane North Academy
• Why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Book and Periodical Publishing

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