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Caretaker/Site Manager

About the role

We have a rare but exciting opportunity to join our wonderful staff family as a highly valued member of our premises team. Our Vision statement is ‘Achieving Potential Together as a School Family’ and we are looking for an individual who echoes our view that every child deserves to reach their potential and wishes to play a key part in ensuring our learning environment offers children a place that enthuses and excites but keeps them safe too.

Please contact us to arrange a visit, or obtain further information/ chat about the role:
Email: office@stretham.cambs.sch.uk 
Telephone: 01353 649271
Visits to the school are encouraged.
Details also available on our website/ you can download the application pack: 
www.strethamschool.org

Interview - Interviews will be held w/c 21 October 2024.

Stretham Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its children and staff and the post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
 

What will you be doing?

The Site Manager will :-
Ø Carry out general caretaking duties.
Ø Carry out semi-skilled general maintenance and repairs.
Ø Be a key holder and out-of-hours emergency contact.
Ø Keep the school safe and clean by supervising and supporting the cleaning.
Ø Facilitate the use of the school for external lettings.
Ø Be responsible for general care/maintenance of the school swimming pool.

Training will be provided to support and develop the right candidate. There will be opportunities for career development. 

The 3.5 hours each day are split before and after school, between 7.00 – 8.00 am and 3.00 – 6.30 pm, plus a further 5 hours per week undirected (this may include weekend lettings.)



 

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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