Assistant Caretaker

Job Description

Career Opportunity Advertisement

Assistant Site Manager

Towers Campus and Woodlands Campus

Approx 28 hours per week : LGPS Scale 3 (£13.47 per hour / £19,667 per annum TBC)

Required as soon as possible

St George's School seeks an Assistant Caretaker to support its site management service. The successful applicant will ensure that the site is secure, organised, clean, safe and well maintained. A practical position, this will involve completing planned tasks as well as reacting to issues as they arise. Training will be provided so that the postholder can deputise in the absence of the Site Manager. Working hours may be lengthened in the event that cleaning duties require covering, or lettings require a presence on site.

The preferred candidate will:

· Be keen to do their best and proud of the service they provide

· Have excellent professional relationships with others on the site

· Be proactive in identifying issues and responding to them

· Take instruction as well as be self-directed

· Be prepared to take responsibility for the site when lone working

· Enjoy completing tasks that keep the site safe, clean, attractive and maintained

· Be formally trained and coached

· Be trustworthy and instill confidence in the maintenance of the site

Provisional working hours will be 10:45am to 4pm (Monday to Thursday), 10:45am to 6pm (Friday) and include emergency callouts. Additional hours may be available in the event that cleaning capacity is low. Working weeks include term time, school closure periods and training days.

Applications must be received by noon on June 12th 2026 at the latest.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning June 15th 2026.

All application to be made via essexschoolsjobs.co.uk, including a full and detailed personal statement and a completed SD2 form.

Email enquiries to team@stgeorgesschool.org.

St. George's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all persons at the school to actively share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to a DBS clearance, medical checks and satisfactory references.

Information about the School

We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.

It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values. It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; developing increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.

We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities.

Our school is one that has been on an exciting journey of development. Formed from previous separate infant and junior schools in 2021, our newly formed primary school serves the community of New Town and beyond, and is committed to be inclusive of all.

Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished and are lovely places to teach and learn. With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.

However, we still have much to do and believe that, by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose, we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. In the last available value added benchmarks we were one of the highest rated schools in the locality.

We know that success is drawn from professional cooperation and partnership. We are therefore trustees of the Child First Trust, participants in Partners in Excellence (PiXL) and active members of a local schools’ partnership, newly launched in April this year. These networks enable teachers and leaders to learn from each other, and provide mutual support across schools. We encourage our teachers to develop themselves further through national qualifications, and give them a real and meaningful voice in the advancement of our practice and curriculum offer. Professionally, it is a great place to be.

So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.

The Headteacher and Governing Body