Cleaner
Deanwood Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 9TXThis job expired on 1 August 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
1 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £7,606.18 - £7,725.47 Annually (Actual) NJC E2, Points 2-3
Cleaner job summary
Deanwood Primary School is seeking to appoint a highly effective Cleaner to join the Premises Department, to start from September 2025.
We are looking for a reliable and hardworking Cleaner to join our school team. Duties include maintaining cleanliness across classrooms, offices, and communal areas to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for students and staff.
This is a part time, term time plus 4 weeks, permanent role, paid on the NJC pay scale E2 point 2-3 (FTE £24,412.99- £24,795.86– actual salary calculated on a pro rata basis which equates to £7,606.18 - £7,725.47 per annum).
The working pattern will consist of 12.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday, with a 30-minute unpaid break each day.
The successful candidate will have an attention to detail, will work to a high standard, and will seek to ensure a positive educational environment through their work. In return, The Howard Academy Trust offers a wide variety of benefits, details of which are outlined below.
What can we offer you?
The successful candidate will be someone who has high expectations and is passionate about education. In return, we can promise an investment in you and your future, offering a competitive remuneration package, providing first class professional development and career opportunities.
We value our staff and actively support their professional development and have redesigned our working week to place even greater emphasis on employee development. You will have access to ongoing professional development including accredited courses. If you are looking to extend your experience and would be interested in joining our team, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Benefits of Working with The Howard Academy Trust
We care about the personal and professional wellbeing of our staff, and are pleased to offer:
- Health Assured - Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Benenden Healthcare
- Free Flu Jabs
- Free Health Checks
- Access EarlyPay
- Skills Network of 30 Free Level 2 8 – 12 week courses
- Discounted gym membership
- CPD afternoons
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Free parking on all our sites
If you require any further information or you wish to organise a tour of the school, please contact the school office by calling 01634 231901 or via email to office@deanwood.medway.sch.uk
We reserve the right to alter our interview dates and close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About Deanwood Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 248 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Deanwood Primary School website
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