Afternoon Caretaker

Come and join our outstanding Nursery School and Children’s Centre.

Following the retirement of our amazing caretaker, we are looking to recruit a friendly, flexible and creative caretaker who enjoys working with children and adults, takes pride in their work and enjoys repairs, maintenance and innovations.

The post is 15 hours per week all year round.

The usual hours of this post are:

Monday - Friday 3pm - 6pm or 2pm - 5pm.

St Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre is a Centre of Excellence for under 3s and has been designating as a National Teaching School. In this role we work right across the city hosting visitors, developing training and working alongside practitioners from other settings to develop the very best provision for our under 3s.

We pride ourselves on the exceptional quality of personalised provision provided for our youngest children - which holds their emotional well‑being central to all we do.

Our challenge this year is to develop outdoor learning space.

• General maintenance skills including painting and decorating.
• Good IT skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with children, staff, visitors and contractors.
• Experience of Health and Safety systems and procedures including fire safety.
• Willingness to undertake appropriate training including health and safety.
• Able to prioritise the workload.
• A love for the outdoors.
• Enjoys having fun and thinking anything is possible!

• A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart.
• A supportive and challenging CPD programme.
• Supervision, mentoring and coaching.
• A supportive and inclusive environment with a focus on individuals’ emotional well‑being and work‑life support.
• A leadership team who will invest in and care about your personal and professional development.
• A vibrant community, from which we draw so much and enjoy excellent partnership working.

We encourage potential candidates to visit the setting prior to application, to give you the very best chance of success. Please phone the centre to make an appointment: .

St Pauls particularly encourages applications from suitably qualified Black and Minority Ethnic candidates and those who speak community languages, although all applications are warmly welcomed and will be considered on their merits.

Safeguarding and Child Protection is central to our work and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.