Lettings Caretaker

Salary Details: £13.50 per hour

About The Role

We are seeking an organised and responsible Lettings Caretaker to join Avanti Grange Secondary School, supporting the smooth running of our community lettings provision.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for preparing and securing the school’s facilities, maintaining high standards across the premises and providing excellent customer service to hirers. This is a varied role requiring reliability, initiative and flexibility, including availability during evenings, weekends and school holidays.

Further information

• Prepare and maintain the premises, equipment and facilities to ensure they are clean, safe, tidy and presentable, undertaking basic cleaning and liaising with contractors where necessary.
• Take responsibility for holding site keys and ensuring the school’s facilities are opened and securely closed before and after lettings bookings.
• Provide a welcoming and professional service to all lettings customers, including showing prospective clients around the facilities, responding to queries and resolving any issues or complaints.
• Carry out post-booking checks, ensure school policies and health and safety procedures are followed, and make First Aid equipment available when required.
• Demonstrate excellent organisation, reliability, punctuality and initiative, working flexibly across evenings, weekends and school holidays while upholding the ethos and values of Avanti Grange Secondary School.

What are we looking for?

• Experience of working with relevant age group within a learning environment
• A good understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities
• Ability to communicate well, with adults and children across the Trust
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Why should you apply 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. 

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.