Cleaner
Walkergate Community School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE6 4SD11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 February 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 3:30pm - 6:30 pm Monday to Friday, 15 hours per week.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 31st December 2026
Full-time equivalent salary
- N1 £24,413 per annum
Actual salary
- Living Wage Supplement to £13.45 per hour, actual salary £10,519 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Can you help maintain a safe, clean and hygienic environment for our learners? Walkergate Community School are seeking to appoint a Cleaner to join their team. Key duties will include; cleaning, washing, sweeping, vacuum cleaning, emptying of bins, polishing and dusting.
This post is part time working 3:30pm - 6:30 pm Monday to Friday. The post is fixed term until 31st December 2026.
We are looking for a colleague who has:
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Self-motivated to meet deadlines.
- Ability to deliver to required standards with knowledge of cleaning methods.
What the school offers its staff
Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.
Our school motto is ‘Together we make a difference’. At Walkergate Community School we are lucky enough to have a passionate workforce who all care for and respect the fantastic children of our school. As a research school, we are dedicated to school improvement and we all aim to provide a happy, safe and engaging school environment for the children and our staff too.
In return we offer:
- Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
- A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
- The benefit of working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
- Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Ireland’s leading wellbeing provider.
- Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.
Further information about the job
Interested in finding out more?If you would to find out more about this opportunity, you can contact Kelly Stockill, School Business Manager on 0191 265 5737. Please also get in touch if you would prefer to complete a paper application form.
Interested in applying? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying job description and person specification, and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Wednesday 4th February 2026.
The expected date for interviews is Monday 9th February 2026.
NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Walkergate Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 647 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Walkergate Community School website
- Email address
- walkergate.admin@neat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0191 265 5737
Walkergate Community School is a large primary school with teaching school status. we are part of Newcastle East mixed Multi Academy Trust and work closely with our partner schools.
Arranging a visit to Walkergate Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email walkergate.admin@neat.org.uk.
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