Caretaker
Contract: Permanent, Part Time
Hours: 7:00am - 1:30pm (30 hours per week)
Salary: £30,577 (Grade 6, scale points 18-20, Full Time Equivalent £36,693)
Location: New Valley Primary School, Old Lodge Lane, CR8 4AZ
To start: February 2027
Deadlines for applications 3:00pm 30th November 2026
Are you a team player who wants to support children's education? Would you take pride in maintaining and improving a safe, clean and well-organised school environment? If so, read on…
We are looking for a Caretaker who is:
- Committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children, staff and visitors;
- Hardworking and practical;
- Friendly, enthusiastic and positive;
- Knowledgeable about health & safety and site security;
- Able to work collaboratively as part of a team, and also on their own initiative.
In return, we can offer the chance to work with:
- Our wonderfully enthusiastic and funny children and their supportive families;
- Our hard-working, friendly staff team;
- The caretakers and other in our family of schools
New Valley is a friendly, diverse one-form primary school serving families in and around Purley and Coulsdon. We are lucky enough have extensive grounds with plenty of outdoor space to support our children's learning.
As part of PACE Academy Trust, we work alongside three other schools to provide education and care of high quality in happy, inspiring environments, in which all children and adults are valued and encouraged to succeed. We work collaboratively as a trust on many key areas.
Please call or e-mail the school office to find out more. Visits to the school are warmly welcomed; we would love to meet you.
An application form and job description can be downloaded from the e-teach website.
PACE Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to a disclosure and barring check. We will carry out an online search of all candidates who are shortlisted.
We believe that diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that PACE Academy Trust reflects our communities. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to our work, the better. If you share our values, we welcome your application.