Assistant Caretaker - Higham Lane North Academy

20 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

Salary: £13,613 to £13,829 (pay award pending) (dependent on service and experience).

September 2026 start.

Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Assistant Caretaker for a September 2026 start.

Applications are invited from enthusiastic individuals to support the Senior Caretaker in ensuring the school site is safe, secure, clean, well maintained and fit for purpose at all times. The Caretaker will undertake routine maintenance, cleaning, security and operational duties across the school site and grounds.

At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you a supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices. A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralised detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice. A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback. Research based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom. Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective. Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP. The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team. A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions. The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.

• Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
• A Gym Membership Scheme
• A Cycle to Work Scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
• An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
• A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more