Janitor

**JANITOR**

**Salary: Grade 2 SCP 7**

**Actual Salary: £7,601.82 - £9,502.27**

**Working hours: 16-20 hours per week Term Time + 5 INSET days**

**Contract type: Permanent**

**Start date: ASAP**

**Do you have experience of working in site maintenance and/or security?**

**We are currently seeking to appoint a Janitor for our school. Applicants are required to have experience in a similar role. You will work under the instruction of the school Principal to provide routine janitorial support to ensure the safe and effective operation of the school.**

**Applicants must**:

- **Hold good numeracy and literacy skills.**
- **Demonstrate a positive attitude around the school.**
- **Have well-developed interpersonal skills and be able to relate to a wide range of people.**
- **Work constructively as part of a team, whilst being able to demonstrate initiative.**
- **Be able to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines.**
- **Have an interest in working in a school with children who have additional needs.**

**Blackfriars Academy is a very special place to be educated. We have a learning community of approximately 120 students aged between 11-19 and over 90 staff all working towards the goal of supporting students with profound and complex, or moderate or severe learning needs and profound and complex needs to reach their potential. We are special because we provide an outstanding educational experience for a vast range of needs in a supportive and caring atmosphere where students blossom in our inclusive environment.**

SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was founded in 1982 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.

**The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment**:

- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- **Support Staff only** based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (**36 days holiday** **rising to 38 days** after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you **grow, contribute** and **flourish** in your role and in the Trust.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

**In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.**

**Application deadline: 27th March 12 noon**

**Shortlisting date: 27th March**

**Interview date: 29th March**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 16-20 per week

**Salary**: £10.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2TF: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- cleaning: 1 year (preferred)
- janitorial: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 27/03/2023
Reference ID: BFNJAN