Caretaker

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Wade Deacon High School

Part-Time Caretaker

Establishment: Wade Deacon High School

Location: Widnes

Salary: Grade 2 SCP 3-4 £12,397-£12,592 + shift allowance

Department: Maintenance

Job Type: Part Time

Closing Date: 08/12/2025 9am

Interview Date: to be confirmed

Start Date: as soon as possible

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Term: AYR - All year round

Hours per Week: 18.5 hours

Weeks per Year: 52.143

We are seeking to attract the very best, talented, aspirational staff to join Wade Deacon High School. Due to the significant successes and achievements and continuing rapid growth of our school, you would be joining us at an exciting time.

We are looking to appoint a committed and motivated part-time Caretaker to join our dedicated Site Maintenance Team responsible for ensuring that our school provides a safe, welcoming and purposeful environment for staff, students and visitors. The postholder will be expected to participate in school activities and events across the school and will help support the upkeep of the school premises and grounds alongside a team of three, reporting to the Head of Facilities. The postholder will be responsible alongside the team for Security & Safety, Energy Management, Porterage & Maintenance; and will work to Health & Safety legislation at all times with an ability to demonstrate a wide range of practical skills. To support events and lettings out of normal school hours, a shift allowance will be offered.

We can offer the successful candidates an opportunity to work with highly trained and supportive staff, as well as a whole school commitment to professional development, since we believe that staff development is a fundamental aspect in raising standards further for our students. Our school community is also a highly rewarding place to work. A comprehensive programme of CPD and a commitment to wellbeing supports colleagues at all career stages; through the School and the Trust, we provide excellent career opportunities for our staff. Colleagues seeking a varied, challenging and rewarding career can find this in the Wade Deacon family.

Wade Deacon High School is friendly, dynamic and innovative. Our latest OFSTED report from November 2022 described us as “an Outstanding School" in all areas, praising the school for providing pupils with a ‘first-rate education’ and an ‘aspirational curriculum’, describing pupils as ‘extremely happy’ and their behaviour as ‘exemplary’.

We pride ourselves on the quality and diversity of our curriculum, including our personal development and extracurricular provision which not only enable our students to enjoy their learning but also allows them to be able to meet the many challenges that they will face in the future, understanding the wider world and their place within it.

Above all else, we are a school that believes that every student, regardless of their context or starting point, can and should achieve their full potential. If you believe that you have the motivation, belief and leadership quality to contribute to our future success, we would welcome an application from you.

Please see the recruitment pack for full salary details.

The Wade Deacon Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical clearance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions or spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020. For further information on criminal record self-declaration please refer the guidance available on our website at: http://www.wadedeacontrust.com/work-with-us/how-to-apply/criminal-recor…;