Caretaker / Porter / Maintenance in Worksop

Location: Nottinghamshire, UK

Salary: Competitive

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Patterns: Full-Time

Application Deadline: Friday, 19th June 2026

Job Description

To work as part of the Household team (as a part-time resident) to provide an efficient, safe, and customer-focused caretaking and portering service across all school sites. The role supports the maintenance, cleanliness, safety, and security of the premises, contributing to a well-managed environment for pupils, staff, and visitors. The successful candidate will have opportunities for professional development, including the potential to gain further qualifications.

The post holder must promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people in line with the School’s Child Protection Policy.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

Key Responsibilities

Caretaking Responsibilities

• Open, lock, and secure buildings; set alarms where required.
• Ensure heating, lighting, and electrical equipment are used appropriately and safely.
• Conduct end-of-day site checks, securing departments and switching off lights/heaters.
• Act as the first point of call for emergency/incident/security matters when required.
• Assist with fire drills, emergency responses, and security incidents.
• You may be required to work outside your normal working hours.
• Maintain high standards of professionalism and cleanliness across all areas.
• Comply with Health & Safety legislation and internal procedures at all times.

Portering Responsibilities

• Moving furniture, boxes, paper and equipment around the school and delivering post, parcels, etc.
• Taking over, or assisting with, essential cleaning tasks in the absence of other cleaning staff.
• Occasional painting, manual labouring working alongside the maintenance team on building projects.
• Collecting all rubbish from within the boarding houses and teaching areas on a daily basis and disposing of that in a suitable manner ensuring items are disposed of correctly within the recycling systems available.
• Ensure events are set up and cleared away in a time managed and organised manner in conjunction with other daily duties and the needs of the school timetable.
• Attend call outs within 15 minutes of receiving notice where necessary and attempting remedial actions where appropriate.
• Always comply with Health & Safety legislations in all areas of the school.
• Ensure heating and lighting is turned on or off as appropriate.
• Receiving deliveries and distributing parcels to their recipients.
• Assisting the household / maintenance team with general maintenance tasks within the boarding houses.
• Assisting with moving of furniture within the boarding houses and school areas.
• Obtain gas and electricity meter readings from the staff houses located within the grounds of the school.
• Escorting visitors and contractors around the site as required.
• Collecting and delivering laundry to the boarding houses as required.
• Car park management during busy periods.

Statutory requirements & equal opportunities

For this post applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including but not limited to reference checks with previous employers, online searches, prohibition checks and a criminal record check via the Applicants Disclosure and Barring Service (including Barred List Check). All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory outcome of child protection screening checks.

We will appoint, train, develop and promote on the basis of merit and ability alone. It is a stipulation of the Governors and a statutory requirement that members of staff appointed to Worksop College should be shown not to have any criminal record, which might prevent them accepting a post at the College. Accordingly, the College requires permission from all members of staff to make an appropriate investigation. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory outcome of this enquiry.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974 and the school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are spent unless they are protected under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Worksop College is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all our employees and job applicants equally. It is our policy to take all reasonable steps to employ and promote employees on the basis of their abilities and qualifications without regard to age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, marital or civil partnership status, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, trade union membership, religion or belief.

Benefits

• Fee concessions for your children
• Workplace pension scheme
• Access to gym, sports hall and swimming pool
• Free meals provided when on duty
• Free onsite parking

You may have experience of the following:

• Caretaker
• Site Caretaker
• Facilities Assistant
• Facilities Operative
• Site Operative
• Premises Assistant
• Premises Officer
• Site Support Assistant
• Maintenance Assistant
• General Maintenance Operative
• Facilities Maintenance Assistant
• Porter
• Site Porter
• Facilities Porter
• Handyperson