Cleaner

Hookstone Chase Primary School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7DJ

21 days remaining to apply

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 August 2024

Job details

Job role: Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time: This role is permanent, term-time only working 15 hours per week, Monday to Friday 3pm until 6pm.
Contract type: Permanent
Actual salary: £7,582

What skills and experience we're looking for

Northern Star Academies Trust seek to recruit the very best people to work across our Trust Partnership. We are looking for reliable and enthusiastic individuals to join our Facilities team at Hookstone Chase Primary School, and support the school in ensuring the environment is safe, clean and compliant for all. This role is permanent, term-time only working 15 hours per week, Monday to Friday 3pm until 6pm.

Main Duties/Responsibilities

To carry out cleaning duties within allocated timescales and to take a flexible approach in order to meet the school’s requirements. Duties will include (but not exhaustive):

• General dusting of furniture, fixings and fittings

• Dust control mopping/sweeping of floors

• Vacuuming floors

• Cleaning and polishing floors using electrical buffing machine, carpet shampooer

• Damp/wet mopping of floors

• Polishing furniture, cleaning internal glass

• Cleaning of sanitary fittings

• To use cleaning materials as instructed

• Specialist cleaning (e.g. stripping & sealing of floors)

• Emptying of all bins and putting the waste in the external bins, ready for collection.

• Wiping surfaces, fixtures and fittings & paintwork

• Store cleaning equipment and products safely and securely

• To fulfil the necessary administrative tasks associated with the responsibilities of the post.

• To be aware of and implement your health and safety responsibilities as an employee and where appropriate any additional specialist or managerial health and safety responsibilities as defined in the Health and Safety policy and procedure.

• To work with colleagues and others to maintain health, safety and welfare within the working environment.

• To perform duties in line with health & safety regulations (COSHH) and take action where hazards are identified, reporting serious hazards to line manager immediately.

What the school offers its staff

Employee Assistance Programme.

Cycle to Work Scheme.

Excellent CPD opportunities.

Maternity, Shared Parental, Paternity, and Adoption pay.

Onsite canteen.

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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.