Caretaker - Tylers Green Middle School

**Reference number**

BUC13158

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

2 Mar 2025, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

21 Mar 2025

**Overview**:
The Headteacher and Governors at Tylers Green Middle School are looking to appoint a Caretaker to replace our current much appreciated Mr Hazell who is retiring in July after 7.5 years at our school.

**Job Salary** £24,879 - £26,961 (pro rata for 34.5 hours, approx. £23,198 - £25,139 PA)
plus 5.5 hours additional pay for road patrol crossing (£3,074 PA)

**Contract Type** Permanent

**Hours** Monday to Friday, 40 hours in total

**Closing Date for Applications** Friday 21 March 2025, 9 am

**About us**:
Tylers Green is a happy and inclusive place to work and learn. Staff and pupils are supported alike. There is a high value placed on well-being and the school prides itself on providing opportunities and training to allow staff to develop their skills and interests. The school has a strong community feel and is at the heart of the village.

**About the role**:
There are so many different parts to a caretaker role, which the attached job description will confirm. The main work areas for our caretaker are as follows:

- Taking responsibility for the management and maintenance of our school swimming pool, which is very busy with lettings seven days a week. The Caretaker tests the water regularly throughout the day, keeps accurate records of tests and liaises with the external swim schools. They also deal with all the chemicals for the pool and looks after the plant room.
- Maintenance is an important part of the role and will include minor repairs, decorating, plumbing and DIY jobs.
- Site security involves locking, unlocking and keeping the site safe at all times.
- The caretaker also carries out the statutory H&S testing in school such as checking fire prevention equipment, legionella water testing, ladder registers, hazardous substances and lots more. These are done regularly and need recording accurately.
- Lots of contractors are involved in running a school and the caretaker is the main point of contact for them.
- The caretaker also does the road crossing patrol twice a day before and after school.

Plus lots more

**About you**:

- Friendly, professional and an approachable team player who is positive, self-motivated and independent
- Resilient and able to remain calm under pressure; punctual, reliable and trustworthy
- Flexible when priorities change with meticulous attention to detail and a high level of accuracy to ensure all records are complete and correct
- Hard working with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Physically fit, able to drive and with your own vehicle
- Confident with DIY and general maintenance, ideally including plumbing and decorating
- Open to learning all about how to maintain and manage a swimming pool including a mechanical plant room
- Confident with literacy, numeracy and ICT skills

**Other information**:
**_ This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:_**
- **_All unspent convictions and conditional cautions_**:

- **_All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020)._**

**_For further information on filtering please refer to _**_Nacro guidance_**_ and the _**_guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice_**_ (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’)._