27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    ASAP- subject to safer recruitment checks being completed

  • Closing date

    17 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    17 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£5,703.84 Annually (Actual) NJC England & Wales, Scale point 2. £12.45 per hour. 10 hours per week, 38 weeks per year ( Term time only) PLUS 20 additional hours across the holidays- when required

Cleaner job summary

This role is offered on a Fixed term contract until February 1st 2026. 10 hours per week, 38 weeks per year ( term time) PLUS 20 additional hours to be worked when required across the school holidays.

As a school cleaner at Heath Hayes Primary Academy, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment for our children and staff.

Your hard work ensures that our facilities are sanitised and ready for learning every day, and there’s nothing more important than that!

Just so you know, our teachers are very mindful of the work of our school cleaners. They don’t get the glitter out unless it is absolutely necessary!

We are seeking a hard-working and dedicated school cleaner to work in our friendly school. You will work as part as a team, undertaking various cleaning duties throughout the school to ensure our children’s learning environment is always clean. For the successful candidate we can offer a contract with a minimum term of 1 year, working on a part-time basis.  2 hours a day, Monday to Friday in term time. Flexible deep clean hours in school holidays will also be required.

In particular, successful applicants should have:

  • Experience of similar work
  • Ability to work constructively as part of a team
  • Ability to relate well to children and to adults
  • Good organising and prioritising skills
  • Ability to keep accurate cleaning records
  • Evidence of a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
  • Ability to work flexibly to suit school needs

You should:

  • Have good communication skills
  • Have the ability to use initiative
  • Be willing to undertake direction and guidance
  • Be ready to work as part of a team
  • Use time effectively to ensure all spaces are ready for learning

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?

Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:

  • Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.
  • Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.
  • Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.
  • Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.
  • Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.
  • Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.

Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.

Benefits

  • We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:
  • Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.
  • Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.
  • Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.  
  • Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.
  • Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.

Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

Commitment to safeguarding

In accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, the successful candidate will be required to have an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

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About Heath Hayes Primary Academy

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
202 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11

Heath Hayes Academy is a one-form entry primary school with approximately 200 children who we are immensely proud of! They are, we feel, a credit to the school. We are a school where the staff work in teams and this is reflected in the way the children conduct themselves, work and interact with one another. Heath Hayes Academy is a truly wonderful place. Our purpose is to maintain a consistent, inspirational practice from the entire school community to develop the happiness, security and learning outcomes for all children. We inspire and enable all children to achieve their potential by having an expectation of excellence from all stakeholders.

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