School Caretaker | Academy | Birmingham
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Birmingham - UK
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Job Summary
The Opportunity
Birmingham is a major cultural and creative powerhouse globally celebrated for its historic engineering heritage thriving commercial sectors and multi-billion-pound infrastructure transformations. We are seeking a proactive highly practical and security-minded School Caretaker to join a dynamic academy. In this critical operational role you will manage the physical security maintenance and safe operation of our school siteensuring our facilities provide an exceptionally clean safe and high-quality environment for our students staff and visitors.
The School
Operating as an independent academy within a forward-thinking multi-academy trust our school combines innovative educational practice with robust operational support. We benefit from centralized administrative and estates networks freeing our frontline staff to focus entirely on maintaining an exceptional site environment. We implement explicit highly consistent school-wide behaviour routines that keep our campus quiet respectful and orderly. This structured environment ensures that our facilities and grounds are respected by the student body creating a positive and professional workplace for our estates team.
The Estates Team & Operational Culture
You will join a highly focused collaborative and hard-working Estates and Facilities team where practical problem-solving physical safety and meticulous standards are celebrated.
The department operates with dedicated maintenance facilities industry-standard tools and advanced digital compliance tracking software to manage daily workflows efficiently.
Our estate framework explicitly prioritizes preventative maintenance ensuring that potential facility issues heating variances or structural repairs are identified and resolved early.
Staff benefit from clear structured shift patterns and shared operating protocols allowing you to manage the daily operation of the physical plant while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Core Responsibilities
Site Security & Access Control: Managing the daily unlocking and locking of the school premises ensuring all buildings gates and windows are perfectly secure and acting as a primary emergency keyholder for the site.
Facilities & Maintenance Operations: Executing minor reactive repairs including basic carpentry plumbing painting and mechanical adjustments across the campus to keep classrooms and communal spaces fully operational.
Health & Safety Compliance: Undertaking statutory testing routines including weekly fire alarm checks monthly water hygiene (Legionella) flushing emergency lighting tests and keeping precise compliance logs.
Grounds & Environmental Care: Ensuring the school grounds walkways and car parks remain clean free of litter and completely safeincluding proactive gritting and clearing during winter weather conditions.
Contractor & Porterage Support: Escorting external maintenance contractors safely around the site assisting with heavy item deliveries and setting up halls or flexible spaces for school events and examinations.
The Successful Candidate We are looking for a reliable highly capable and solution-oriented professional who takes pride in creating a safe functional environment for young people. Your profile should include:
Proven Handyperson Skills: Strong previous experience in school caretaking building maintenance estates work or a relevant trade (e.g. carpentry plumbing building maintenance) with a highly practical mindset.
Health & Safety Awareness: A clear understanding of standard health and safety principles COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations and safe working practices at height or with machinery.
Excellent Reliability: A trustworthy self-motivated individual who can prioritize a busy daily task list independently and adapt quickly when urgent maintenance requests arise.
Professional Communication: A polite professional and calm manner when interacting with school staff visitors and students alike.
Why Join Our Operations Team
The distinct satisfaction of working within a progressive academy setting where your dedication directly impacts the safety smooth running and atmosphere of the whole school community.
Comprehensive internal induction and continuous training covering advanced school facilities management health and safety compliance and safeguarding protocols.
The exceptional lifestyle benefits of living and working in Birminghamoffering a vibrant youthful population highly accessible residential areas a legendary food and canalside district and rapid rail links across the entire UK network.
A supportive School Business Manager and senior leadership team that respects site staff workloads provides clear shift patterns and fully values your vital role in the schools daily operations.
How to Apply
Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.
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