Casual Caretakers

Job Ref No. ECC5413-230

Position Type : Caretaker / Site Managers

Pay Range : £12.85 per hour, plus holiday pay.

Position Start Date : Immediate

Contract Type : Part-time

Contract Term : Permanent

Application Close : 15 / 03 / 2025 Midnight

Date of Interviews : TBC

We are looking for a proactive and reliable Relief Caretaker to support our site team during peak periods and cover staff absence. As part of our team, you'll play a key role in maintaining the security, cleanliness, and overall upkeep of our school premises.

Key Responsibilities :

• Perform basic cleaning and minor repairs
• Assist with general maintenance tasks
• Move materials and equipment as needed (porterage)
• Maintain heating systems and conduct routine safety checks
• Ensure safety procedures are consistently followed
• Carry out checks on site equipment

What We're Looking For :

If you're ready to contribute to the smooth operation of our school and enjoy hands-on work, we'd love to hear from you!

Safer Recruitment Statement :

In line with our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, the school follows safer recruitment procedures. All applicants will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and reference checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024).

Information about the School

THE SCHOOL : A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.

We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.

In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.

We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.

Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.

We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.

OUR VALUES

Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.

These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.

We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.

We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.

ASPIRE

RESPECT

ENDEAVOUR

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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