About us and the role

We are looking for two reliable and organised Casual Lettings Caretakers to join our team across the Bishop’s Stortford schools.

Reporting to the Head of Business Services, you will be responsible for holding keys, open and close sites safely, and oversee lettings to ensure our premises remain clean, secure and welcoming for all community users.

You will play a vital part in maintaining equipment, liaising with contractors, and delivering excellent customer service to clients using our facilities.

Flexibility is essential, as the role involves working evenings, weekends and during school holidays to meet the needs of our lettings arrangements

If you take pride in your work, enjoy solving problems independently, and want to help our community activities run smoothly, we’d love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England.

All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of:

• Educational excellence
• Character development
• Spiritual insight

What will you do?

• Hold keys to the school sites, ensuring facilities are opened and secured safely before and after community lettings bookings.
• Maintain, check and set up equipment, and ensure all areas are clean, tidy and presentable for community use.
• Provide excellent customer service by showing clients around, resolving queries or issues, and ensuring bookings run smoothly.
• Liaise with cleaning teams and contractors, carry out basic cleaning as needed, and ensure facilities meet expected standards after use.
• Follow all school policies and procedures, including health and safety, fire safety and First Aid provision during lettings.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

What are we looking for?

• Experience working in a customer focused environment
• Effective communication skills both written and oral to both internal and external stakeholders
• A thorough practically based understanding of premises maintenance issues
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.