Cleaner
Balcarras School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL53 8QF18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 5 days per week (Mon-Fri, Term time only) 20 hours per week (2pm—6pm).
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.26
What skills and experience we're looking for
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to carry out general cleaning duties as detailed in the job description
- Punctual and reliable
- Ability to manage time effectively to complete tasks to a high standard
- Ability to prioritise work
- Able to work with minimum supervision and independently
- Ability to work both alone and within a team to achieve specified standards
- Be flexible to changing demands of the post
- Take pride in your work
- Hard working
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of why equal opportunities are important in employment and service delivery
- Ability to respect and value the different experience, ideas and backgrounds others can bring to work and teams
- Have an awareness of and display a commitment to the relevant legislation and guidance in working practices in relation to the safeguarding of children and young people
- To undertake any training relevant to the role
- Must be in good health
- Able to communicate clearly, understand and follow instructions
- Experience of undertaking general cleaning duties
What the school offers its staff
It is a very exciting and rewarding time to be working at Balcarras. Our latest GCSE grades were extraordinary and put us in the Top 30 comprehensive schools in the country based on the percentage of pupils gaining 5+ in English and Maths. At A-level the picture was similar. We were listed by the Sunday Times as the second highest performing comprehensive school in the Southwest in Parent Power published in November 2023. It is this commitment to the highest academic standards, whilst at the same time being a caring and stimulating environment, that makes Balcarras feel different from anywhere else.
As part of the Balcarras Trust, our teaching staff have access to outstanding professional development networks including NPQs and ECTs if appropriate.
Balcarras is a great place to work, from staff football and wreath making sessions to Chinese cookery —Balcarras creates opportunities for staff cohesion. We recently ran a whole Trust staff inset on staff wellbeing that covered topics such as physical well being, mental well being, financial wellbeing and reducing workload . Both staff and pupils benefit from Buddy the school dog who is the one of best appointments ever made!
Commitment to safeguarding
Balcarras School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role will involve regulated activity with children. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion. Please also read the Recruitment Selection and Disclosure Policy within “How to apply” which includes our policy on recruiting ex-offenders. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of two satisfactory references.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to ksa@balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Balcarras School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1422 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Balcarras School website
- Email address
- ksa@balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01242 515881
Balcarras School is an outstanding secondary school on the outskirts of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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