Job Description

Northwood College

Hillingdon
15.27 - 16.17 per hour

Salary:

Between 15.27 and 16.17 per hour with excellent benefits

Job type:

Part Time, Permanent

Start date:

01 September 2025

Apply by:

21 August 2025

Job overview

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The role:

Northwood College for Girls is seeking a confident and self-motivated Caretaker to support our busy school site. This is a flexible, part-time weekend role ideally suited to someone looking for work-life balance and regular school holidays.

In this dual-role position, you will take responsibility for managing the school premises during weekend shifts. Acting as a keyholder, you will liaise directly with lettings customers, delivering a friendly and professional service while ensuring that the facilities are well presented, secure, and maintained in line with hire agreements.

While previous experience in a school environment and basic maintenance or DIY skills is desirable, they are not essential. We are looking for someone with strong time management, organisation, and communication skills, along with the ability to work independently and relate well to students, parents, colleagues, and visitors.

This is a term-time position, with the option of additional work during school holidays if available. It offers an excellent opportunity for those seeking a flexible role within a supportive and welcoming school community.

About the School:

Northwood College for Girls is an independent, academically selective day school for approximately 890 girls aged 3-18. We aim to empower each NWC girl with the knowledge, insight and motivation to enter adult-hood as a conscientious, ambitious, confident and happy member of society; one who is equipped to turn challenge into opportunity, to embrace change and innovation, to maintain a lifelong love of learning and to succeed in a path that is most advantageous to her individual strengths and aspirations.

Benefits:

As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

Competitive salaries and pay progression Access to extensive professional development opportunities Training grants for qualifications Generous pension scheme Free life assurance benefit Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools Interest-free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans A Cycle to Work scheme Competitive terms and conditions of employment Access to the school gym and swimming pool Free school lunches Retail and lifestyle discounts via Pluxee Financial guidance and support

For further details and to apply, please click the apply button.

Applications must be received by 4pm on Thursday 21st August 2025.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 28th August 2025.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Studies have shown that women and people from under-represented ethnicities are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single aspect of a job description and person specification. At NWC we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so we encourage you to apply even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification or experience in the information provided. The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening, including online searches will apply to this post.

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About

Northwood College

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Northwood College

Maxwell Road, Northwood
Middlesex
HA6 2YE
United Kingdom

+44 1923 825446

"Northwood College is EXCELLENT in every category" - ISI inspection report, March 2012.

Northwood College is an independent day school for girls, which was founded in 1878 in Central London. By 1892 it had moved to its present site on Maxwell Road. Careful, planned development over the decades has ensured that the College has facilities which enable it to provide a high quality of education appropriate to modern needs. Further development is outlined in the school's strategic building plan over the next ten-year period.



The completion of a new Performing Arts block, comprising drama studio, recital hall, three teaching rooms including an ICT suite of 16 MAC computers, 10 smaller practice rooms, offices, assembly area and conservatory, in October 2004, marked the beginning of this development. Two new ICT suites opened in September 2005, providing four suites throughout the school plus a mobile bank of laptops. A new Early Years Centre, called Bluebelle House, containing 14 PCs for Nursery and Reception classes, opened in April 2009. In addition, there are approximately 60 interactive classboards.

Our Ethos

Teaching at Northwood College is a very rewarding and enjoyable experience. Girls are of above average ability, motivated and keen to learn. They come from a wide variety of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and all the world's major religions are represented by the girls - as well as a number of the minor faiths. The atmosphere at Northwood College is unique. Relationships between girls and between girls & staff are excellent. We are an extremely harmonious community that places great emphasis on valuing the individual and expecting the highest standards of behaviour in order to maintain the principles of mutual respect, tolerance and consideration for others which characterise our community. There are approximately 750 girls aged 3-18 on roll, with approximately 100 in the Sixth Form.



As girls are able, the pace of teaching is brisk. Our unique "Thinking Skills" initiative challenges us all to consider the way we teach so that we enable our girls to be able to think critically and creatively, and thus help to prepare them for the rigours of the future. Staff are expected to be committed fully to this programme and training is provided in support of this.



We believe that it is important for every girl to develop her individual talents - whether academic, musical, dramatic, artistic, sporting or organisational. Every girl, from our youngest nursery pupil to our most sophisticated sixth former, is valued for her own unique contribution to the school community.



We encourage girls to recognise their own achievements and those of others. Girls display mutual respect and understanding. Initiative, independence, social responsibility and concern for others are highly valued. We offer a strong system of pastoral care which ensures that every girl feels confident and secure. The College has a warm, friendly atmosphere, and older girls take opportunities to help younger ones.



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