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Wycombe Abbey Seeks a Customer-Focused Custodian
Wycombe Abbey seeks a customer-focused Custodian to join the School’s security team and help provide a safe, secure and welcoming environment for pupils, staff and visitors. This pivotal role combines security operations, customer service and site management, ensuring the smooth running of the School’s entrance points and wider campus at all times.
Reports to: Head Custodian (and ultimately the Headmistress).
Contract: This is a full-time, permanent contract. The first three months will be a probationary period. An Occupational Health check will be required for night working.
Hours of Work: Average of 40 hours per week over a 12-week rotating basis that include a paid 30 minute meal break per shift. Working hours will be scheduled on a rota basis, which will include day and night shifts as part of a shift system that operates 7 days a week 52 weeks per year. Bank holidays are rostered as normal working days, for which an appropriate allowance is included in the salary. Christmas duties attract a further pay increment. Occasional overtime work may be required to support key School activities.
Holiday: 30 days per annum.
Responsibilities
As Custodian, you will play a key role in maintaining the safety and security of the School site. Responsibilities include:
- Managing access control
- Monitoring CCTV systems
- Undertaking patrols
- Overseeing visitor sign-in procedures
- Responding to incidents and emergencies
- Supporting the smooth running of deliveries, events, and parking
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You will act as a first point of contact for visitors and staff, providing a professional and welcoming presence while ensuring compliance with School policies.
About Wycombe Abbey
Wycombe Abbey is a world-class full-boarding school for girls, located on a beautiful site in the centre of High Wycombe. With its distinctive heritage, magnificent 170-acre campus, and impressive resources, the School provides an outstanding education for 650 pupils aged 11–18.
We have been at the forefront of girls’ boarding education for over 125 years. Superb academic outcomes are the School’s hallmark and pupils regularly secure places at the most prestigious universities across the globe. Known for its world-class education, Wycombe Abbey encourages curiosity, innovation, leadership, and delight in learning among its pupils.
The School benefits from easy access to London (24 minutes to Marylebone), the Chiltern Hills, and attractive towns such as Marlow, Henley-on-Thames, and Beaconsfield. Heathrow is also just 20 miles away, plus good transport links to other London airports.
Benefits of Working at Wycombe Abbey
- Enrolment in the School’s generous pension scheme
- Fee school remission at Wycombe Abbey and selected prep schools
- Generous CPD training and development scheme
- Free parking
- Free meals
- Free use of the Sports Centre
- Free eye tests
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
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How to Apply
Please see the job profile document for full information about this role. Applicants should complete the TES application form and submit this with a covering letter addressed to the Headmistress, Mrs J Duncan. Should you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to contact the HR Team on 01494 895575 or hr@wycombeabbey.com.
Closing date for applications: 19 August 2026
Interview date: 28 August 2026
We reserve the right to appoint to this position before the closing date, should we receive a high volume of suitable early applications.
Important Notices
Wycombe Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all applicants are required to declare all unspent convictions and conditional cautions, and any spent convictions or adult cautions that are not protected, as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
We are an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity No. 310638.
Wycombe Abbey is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
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