Your old career could kick-start your over 50 dream job: Caretaking jobs near you
There’s lots of life and career fulfilment to be had post 50 – read Jan’s inspiring story of giving up her full-time gardening job and embracing the flexibility of a part-time caretaker role.
Jan Evans is a rarity in the male-dominated industry of school caretaking – but she’s living the dream before retirement, by making a late career change and finding fulfilment.
The former self-employed gardener and garden centre manager was ready for a change after 35 years in horticulture.
But a ‘jump-in-jump-out’ caretaking role from TIB Services offered her the best balance of all. She’s still able to enjoy some gardening, but alongside a job in a busy school.
And after years of ‘stagnating’ in her old role, she’s loving meeting new people, putting her experience to good use and being a role model for girls to show that women can join any industry they want to.
She added: “I get new experiences, to work as a team and independently, and to use some of the transferable skills that I am bringing with me into this role.”
What I find most rewarding is the amount of gratitude and compliments that I’m getting from a lot of the schools; I’m bringing a fresh energy into a role where perhaps someone was equally stagnated in their role.
Taking up this position with TIB Services, a caretaking recruitment service in Yorkshire, has offered her ‘flexibility and adaptability’.
Typical duties include:
- Small maintenance repairs
- Locking and unlocking the school; performing security and perimeter checks
- Managing deliveries and moving equipment
- Setting up meeting rooms and event spaces
- Conducting fire safety and compliance checks
- Liaising with external contractors
Jan, like other TIB caretakers, also finds great joy in playing a key role in her local community and supporting the next generation.
For candidates, TIB offers a free, comprehensive training programme in health and safety, compliance and safeguarding, a free Enhanced DBS to allow people to work in schools and a supportive environment to work in.
And the calibre of candidates and the availability of work placements for them has impressed Yorkshire-born founder and TIB MD Nick Orde-Powlett: “We are seeing much more demand from schools in North Yorkshire who are really struggling to find candidates of the calibre required for these important caretaking roles. Working within a friendly school team is extremely rewarding and offers mature people an opportunity to use their existing skills in a meaningful way.”
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Find your future
Forget the saying that when you are over 50 you are over the hill. TIB actively encourages people with life experience and skills to join them as their perfect candidates.
The perfect work-life balance career change could be waiting for you – and you could be just the candidate that TIB Services are looking for.
Find out more here.