Caretaker

**Schools Mutual Services is a not-for-profit recruitment service set up by Northeast Education Trusts and based within one of our schools in Gateshead.**

**Key role and responsibilities**:

- Ensuring security integrity of the school buildings and grounds
- Carrying out day-to-day duties according to daily schedule
- Carrying out defined Planned Preventive Maintenance responsibilities, including daily maintenance/testing as appropriate
- Conducting initial investigation into reactive requests relating to defects, carrying out repairs or reporting to Management
- Responding to emergency situations
- Being observant for Health & Safety issues and ensuring they are rectified or reported
- Assist service providers whilst on site
- Carrying out minor repairs and decoration
- Provide access, escort, liaise with and assist service providers on site to undertake remedial work or Planned Prevented Maintenance
- Be available for lettings of the premises outside of normal hours with agreement of site manager and also available for any overtime that is required through school bookings.
- Responsible for cleaning/deep cleaning within the school
- Participate in providing an out of hours emergency call out service in line with management instructions
- External duties including gutter, gulley and drain cleans, leaf clearance, emptying bins, sweeping hard standing areas and spot cleaning external windows and doors and signage.
- Room set-ups including exam tables and chairs, parent/teacher events, assemblies, and any other function or event that the school may have booked

**Skills Required**:

- General maintenance skills. Including experience of PPE including flush throughs and Fire Alarm Testing.
- First Aid Trained
- Flexible and adaptable approach
- Good communication skills in relation to managing relations with the school, communicating with external service providers, and reporting deficiencies to Management
- Proactive nature with the ability to work in a team and share knowledge
- Willingness to learn new skills and undertake training to develop role

**Is this you?**

We would love to hear from you so please call 0191 9338300 for an informal chat about the role where you can ask any questions and see if this is the right role for you

Caretaker

Consett

Durham

INDTA

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £500.00 per week

**Benefits**:

- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Application question(s):

- Is you DBS on the update service?

**Experience**:

- PPE Maintenance: 1 year (preferred)
- School Caretaker: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Drivers Licence (required)
- First Aid Certification (required)
- driving license (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: EW/Caretaker