Custodians

This pivotal role combines security operations, customer service and site management, ensuring the smooth running of the School’s entrance points and wider campus at all times.

Reports to:

Head Custodian (and ultimately the Headmistress).

Contract:

This is a full‑time, permanent contract. The first three months will be a probationary period. An Occupational Health check will be required for night working.

Hours of Work:
Average of 40 hours per week over a 12‑week rotating basis that include a paid 30 minute meal break per shift. Working hours will be scheduled on a rota basis, which will include day and night shifts as part of a shift system that operates 7 days a week 52 weeks per year. Bank holidays are rostered as normal working days, for which an appropriate allowance is included in the salary.

Christmas duties attract a further pay increment. Occasional overtime work may be required to support key School activities.

Holiday: 30 days per annum.

As Custodian, you will play a key role in maintaining the safety and security of the School site. Responsibilities include managing access control, monitoring CCTV systems, undertaking patrols, overseeing visitor sign‑in procedures, responding to incidents and emergencies, and supporting the smooth running of deliveries, events and parking. You will act as a first point of contact for visitors and staff, providing a professional and welcoming presence while ensuring compliance with School policies.

Wycombe Abbey is a world class full‑boarding school for girls, located on a beautiful site in the centre of High Wycombe. With its distinctive heritage, magnificent 170‑acre campus and impressive resources, the School provides an outstanding education for 650 pupils aged 11–18.

• Enrolment in the School’s generous pension scheme
• Fee school remission at Wycombe Abbey and selected prep schools
• Generous CPD training and development scheme
• Free parking
• Free meals
• Free use of the Sports Centre
• Free eye tests
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

Wycombe Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all applicants are required to declare all unspent convictions and conditional cautions, and any spent convictions or adult cautions that are not protected, as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

We are an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity No. 310638.

Wycombe Abbey is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.