Jack is a reincarnation made by the hotel to undergo its bidding, taking the form of a previous hotel guest who stayed there in 1921 and butchered his family, the hotel recreating the same event that happened in previous years for generations.
Kubrick wouldn't have used the line "always been the caretaker" when the butler is talking to Jack in the bathroom scene, without it meaning something. This line and the line about the butler, Delbert Grady and how he has "always been the butler", is evidence or at least a hint from Kubrick that the hotel keeps bringing them back to life as new people. The line about Jack always being the caretaker in a sense is that the photograph will last forever and he'll forever be seen within the image as well as through the reincarnations of the previous hotel guest who butchered his family.
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