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Assistant Caretaker

Job details

Start date: 1st January 2026 or as soon as possible

Three Counties Academy Trust (TCAT) comprises Queen Elizabeth High School, St Peter’s Primary School, Bredenbury Primary School, Stoke Prior Primary School and Lugwardine Primary Academy.

TCAT are looking to appoint a reliable, organised, and proactive Assistant Caretaker to support all five schools within the Trust. Working under the direction of the Trust Estates Manager, the successful candidate will carry out routine maintenance checks and cleaning duties, ensuring our school environments are safe, clean, and maintained to a high standard in a timely and efficient manner.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring our school environments are safe, clean, and well-maintained to a high standard, carrying out routine maintenance checks and cleaning duties in a timely and efficient manner.

It is expected the successful applicant will have:

• A keen awareness of the surroundings in order to prevent accidents or report incidents.
• An understanding and perception of the need for a high standard of cleanliness in schools.
• Possess a thorough approach to cleaning and the storage of cleaning materials
• The ability to work effectively with other cleaning staff and managers.
• The ability to be able to work independently • A good time keeper. • Clean Driving Licence • To work in support of the ethos of the school.
• The ability to relate well to pupils, parents and staff in schools
• Previous experience of cleaning

What we offer:

Three Counties Academy Trust (TCAT) recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:-

• Collaborative working to support our endeavours to work smarter and achieve an effective balance between home and work
• A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
• Membership to the Local Government (LGPS)
• Access to Spectrum Life

Three Counties Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check and further pre-employment checks will be conducted in accordance with KCSIE. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 

For more information contact

Visits to the school by prior appointment are warmly welcomed. For further information please contact: Mrs D Wiles dwiles@tcat.school

Application forms and full details are available here:- Careers at Three Counties Academy Trust - Bromyard, United Kingdom, Hereford | Eteach

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