The Learning Partnership along with the Principal at Wistaston Church Lane Academy wish to appoint a motivated, committed and highly effective Assistant Caretaker to join our hard working and enthusiastic team.

Key duties will include:

• Ensuring that the site and its buildings are locked and secured at the end of the day.
• Maintaining and cleaning parts of the school daily.
• Acting as a designated key holder for the school premises.
• Undertaking minor repairs and maintenance, including painting and decorating.
• Undertaking general portage duties, including moving furniture and distributing items to the appropriate place.
• Taking action where Health and Safety hazards are identified.
• Basic grounds maintenance – snow clearing, gritting, litter picking, bin emptying.
• Emergency attendance in case of alarms.

Other duties as required

Please note that this position is full year, which means that you will be in attendance at work all year round (52 weeks a year) and will have an annual leave entitlement.

The working hours are 3pm to 6pm Monday to Friday. This is 15 hours per week.

(Hours can be flexible during the summer holidays. We may request that, on occasion, the post holder is flexible during term time, to help manage the building during later evening events in school).

About the Trust.

The Learning Partnership is a diverse new multi-academy trust delivering excellent educational provision for pupils in primary and secondary schools across the North-West. The Trust primarily serves the communities of Crewe, Congleton, and Knutsford, and is now the largest multi-academy trust in Cheshire.

At The Learning Partnership, we believe that there are three core facets of our mission –people, passion, and performance. We are striving to build a community of the strongest people, inspiring a passion for education that galvanises these people to maximise their abilities, which supports all pupils to perform at their best. We believe that these core principles will create a culture that helps all our schools to improve and ensures pupil outcomes are the very best they can be.

The trust subscribes to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and places staff wellbeing at the forefront of its strategic people priorities. Our ongoing commitment in this area is reflected in our employee offer that includes:

Discounts in retail stores, entertainment, and supermarkets

Benefits schemes in affordable tech, cycle2work, gym memberships and a car scheme

Employee assistance programme providing specialist advice and guidance in a range of areas including menopause, financial management, and up to 8 counselling sessions per referral

Free parking

The Learning Partnership is a disability committed employer: applicants requiring adjustments to the application, interview process or would like an informal discussion about the post should contact Jackie Hulme - Business Support Officer on officemanager@wistaston.cheshire.sch.uk

Interviews will be arranged at a mutually convenient time with candidates.

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Hours: Monday to Friday, 15 hours per week between the hours of 3pm-6pm

Weeks: 52 weeks per year 

Start date: October 2025

Actual salary: £9740 Grade 3 SCP 3

Closing Date: 25th September 2025

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The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.