Job Title: Caretaker - Mont a L'Abbe
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
DBS Check Level: Enhanced Child List
Hourly rate: £19.86
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Weekly Hours: 30.00
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 01/11/2026
Job Overview
Mont à l'Abbé School is looking to recruit a full-time Caretaker to join our friendly and hardworking site team.
The position is 30 hours per week, working 11:30am to 6:00pm.
Working as part of a small team under the direction of the Site Manager, the successful candidate will have a varied and busy role, supporting the day-to-day operation of the school across three sites.
The main priority of the role is to help manage and maintain the school’s facilities, ensuring that our premises provide a safe, secure and well-maintained environment for our pupils and staff.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Mark Jones, Site Manager, on 875801 or email m.jones@montalabbe.sch.je.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Job Purpose
Working over three sites, duties will include:
- Check security of premises and ensuring premises are secure at the end of the day.
- Carry out regular inspections of the building’s fixtures and fittings for necessary maintenance and construction.
- Initiate repairs, liaising with workmen and contractors, ensuring good value for money, and overseeing work done.
- Carry out minor maintenance and construction across three sites
- Operate central heating systems, both gas and oil, including use of computerised building management system (BMS)
- Ensure good cleaning standards of school building and grounds through management of contractors
- Ordering school cleaning supplies and inputting details on Ariba.
- Driving the minibus.
Person specification
- Good level of education and numeracy skills
- Good organisational, administrative, and interpersonal skills
- Thorough knowledge in the safe use of maintenance of both workshop, hand and power tools
- Good knowledge of risk awareness, COSHH and Health and Safety legislation
- Operational working use of fire panels and CCTV monitoring equipment
- Safely operate plant heating equipment
- Safe operation of pool plant and heating equipment and safe use and storage of chemicals
- Assist in lifeguarding for both primary and secondary pupils
- Clean driving licence with D1 (For driving minibus)
Job Description
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