Job Introduction
Site Supervisor - Caretaker - "Inspire through Creativity, Kindness and Adventure”
Larkrise Primary School, Part of The River Learning Trust, Oxford, OX4 4AN
Permanent Role from July 2025
Grade 6 Scale Point 8 to 13 - 52 week contract
In order to attract the right candidate/s we are advertising this position on a flexible basis. We would consider a contract between 20 and 37 hours. We could also consider a job share.
20 - 37 hrs per week - £14,049.73 to £28,163.00 - Pay Award Pending
Indicative Salary - £14,049.73, based on 20 hours -, £28,163.00 based on 37 hours
Golden Hello payment of £500*
* A £500 Golden Hello (R&R) payment will be paid for successful candidates applying directly to RLT for this role, payable after a qualifying period of one month in this role. (payable as £250 initially and a further £250 after six months' service has been completed).
Our current Site Supervisor is retiring, and we are now looking for an enthusiastic and suitably experienced person to join our friendly school. As well as having experience of working in a similar or construction role, you must also have excellent people skills and a willingness to engage positively with the children in our school. This has been a particular strength of our current Site Supervisor and something that we consider particularly important in the role. Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to help realise our vision for Larkrise Primary School? Can you support our children to learn by providing an excellent learning environment? If so, we can offer the right candidate: enthusiastic children, passionate staff, committed PTA (Friends of Larkrise), and governors. Our leaders are ambitious for the staff, children and wider school community and are committed to your continued professional development and learning.We are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates with experience working in schools or those who would love to work in a school — a candidate who shares the school's values of Creativity, Kindness and Adventure. We are a school where 98% of parents would recommend the school to other parents and where 100% of staff feel that their work has a strong purpose and makes a positive difference in the lives of children and our families. We are open to considering different working patterns in order to attract the right person. We could also consider a job share. This might suit someone who is semi-retired or someone at an earlier stage in their career, looking to gain experience in Health and Safety or general maintenance.
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust: Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. All of the schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together and by our commitment to our shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY’? is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school, and therefore, as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support, including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust and the benefits you can access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
To find out more about this role, the schools and the Trust, please visit our website www.larkriseprimary.org/vacancies/ Application forms should be made via MyNewTerm
Applications are welcome from Wednesday 11th June 2025 until Friday 27th June 2025
Shortlisting and Interview date: Applications will be reviewed when submitted, and interviews will be held as applications are received.
Please specify your preferred hours (between 20 and 37 hours) within your application.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Jon Gray about the role prior to applying, please email office@larkriseprimary.org or telephone 01865721476.
The River Learning Trust and Larkrise Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of its recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation, candidates should click on the following link: RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up-to-date policies, including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants, click on this link: List of offences that are not filtered
