Secondary School Caretaker

School Caretaker - Full Time (may entail split shifts)
Reed are recruiting School Caretakers to service our Secondary Schools in Scunthorpe, Brigg and surrounding areas. Candidates with schools’ experience will have an advantage, but anyone with any caretaking experience, who is organised, reliable, accepting of responsibility and self-confident with basic maintenance will be of interest to our School’s facilities team.

The School Caretaker will usually conduct the following:

* To liaise closely and support the Premises Manager in his objective of ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running, presentation and management of the School site, ensuring a warm, clean, safe and secure environment for all authorised users of the site and visitors.

* Carry out school maintenance and repairs as directed by the Premises Manager ensuring these works are carried out in accordance with the relevant Health and Safety legislation and to handle the day to day issues related to such works.

* Be conversant with the Health and Safety policies relevant to the post including those relating to manual handling, working from height, control of legionella’s and fire safety.

* Be able to attend relevant health and safety training as provided by the School in order to carry out the duties of the post.

* Ongoing repair and odd job work as necessary such as:

• Hanging shelving

• Hanging display boards

• Supervision of some maintenance contractors on site as directed.

• Receipt and distribution of any ordered goods, materials and equipment for the School.

• Maintaining stock levels of necessary consumable items such as tissues, soaps, fluorescent tubes, batteries etc.

• Responsible for the School’s timely waste management collections including all recyclables.

• The movement of furniture and the setting up and taking down of tables and chairs for special events, functions and meetings.

• Manning the School entrance during school events, some out of hours working is expected (pay will reflect overtime worked).

• Organising and logging information regarding: Water management records, Pest control records, Waste management, Energy usage data collection and record keeping .

* The Caretaker will become a trusted 'Key Holder’ for the School and expected to carry out any necessary duties that this may involve call out in the event alarms are triggered etc.

*The Caretaker will be responsible for the general upkeep of the School grounds. This includes clearing the grounds of all rubbish, leaves and snow / ice as appropriate, and ensuring that all fire exit /escape routes are clear and accessible.

* The Caretaker will ensure that all boundary areas / walls, entrances and exits are secure at all times.

* The Caretaker will undertake pruning and planting periodically, as directed by the Premises Manager and ensure that the flower beds are watered as needed.

* Required to be competent in IT matters, conscientious, flexible, trustworthy and reliable, Physically fit and active, and have good DIY skills. Ideally, the caretaker will also have some experience of gardening and have undertaken appropriate Health & Safety training.

If you are interested in this School Caretaker role you can apply by submitting your CV, or if you like you can call our Team and ask for Stephen for more information on .

To work in a school you will have to have an enhanced DBS (or be willing to obtain one - which we can assist with).