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Cleaner
Lift Hockley, Hockley, Essex, SS5 4UR14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 October 2026 at 12:35pm
Date listed
23 September 2026
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
- £6946 - £7288 per annum
Cleaner job summary
Are you the missing link to our warm and friendly cleaning team?
We're looking for a reliable, friendly, and hardworking Cleaner to join our team at Lift Hockley, helping us provide a clean, safe, and welcoming environment where our pupils can learn and our staff can do their best work.
About the role
As a Cleaner, you'll play an important part in the day-to-day running of our school. You'll help ensure our classrooms, offices and shared spaces are maintained to a high standard, creating an environment that our pupils and colleagues can be proud of.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, polishing and dusting across different areas of the school.
- Emptying bins and helping to keep classrooms, offices and communal areas clean and tidy.
- Replenishing items such as hand towels, toilet rolls, hand soap and bin liners.
- Using cleaning materials and equipment safely and correctly.
- Supporting planned deep cleaning during school closure periods.
- Reporting any maintenance, health and safety or stock issues to the appropriate member of the school team.
- Completing relevant training and following our health and safety procedures.
What we're looking for
You'll be someone who takes pride in their work and understands how important a clean and safe school environment is for our pupils and colleagues.
We're looking for someone who:
- Is conscientious, reliable and friendly.
- Can work independently using their own initiative, as well as part of a team.
- Can follow written and verbal instructions.
- Takes a proactive approach and can prioritise their workload.
- Can maintain high cleaning standards within the allocated cleaning hours.
- Understands the importance of following health and safety procedures.
- Is committed to providing and continually improving a high-quality cleaning service.
Previous experience of cleaning and using cleaning equipment is required. Experience working in a similar environment and knowledge of Health and Safety, COSHH regulations and cleaning best practice would be an advantage.
About Lift Hockley
Following our most recent Ofsted inspection, we are proud to be an Outstanding school. Lift Hockley is a thriving community where high aspirations and a caring, family ethos sit at the heart of everything we do.
Our vision, "Aim High", drives our commitment to strong academic achievement alongside exceptional personal development. "Working happily together, inspiring a desire to learn" underpins our culture and reflects the shared values of pupils and staff.
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
If you're looking to join a successful, supportive school where you can make a real contribution to the day-to-day experience of our pupils, families and wider community, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a part-time position working 11 hours and 15 minutes per week, Monday to Friday. The working hours are 6:15am to 8:30am each day.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift Hockley
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 331 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift Hockley website
We are so proud to have been judged as an Outstanding School. It is a great privilege to be the Principal of such a thriving school community where high aspirations and a caring family ethos are at the heart of what we do as well as being a part of Lift Schools.
Our school vision begins with the words “Aim High” – we want all of our pupils to achieve high standards academically alongside exceptional personal development.
Our beautiful woodland setting enables our children to learn in calm, peaceful and awe-inspiring surroundings. In the Early Years Foundation stage, outdoor learning is an integral requirement of the curriculum; our children enjoy an extensive woodland setting in which to learn and play together.
“Working happily together inspiring a desire to learn” underpins all that we do and reflects the beliefs of all pupils and staff here at our school. Collectively we build our pupils’ aspirations and give them the skills and learning experiences to achieve them.As our vision makes clear, our school is a space for aspirations. We know, however, that to help realise these aspirations, our school’s focus must be rooted firmly in our children’s success in the present. Here at Lift Hockley, we take inspiration for this task from our natural setting. Just like the woodland surrounding us, our school is a communal space. We share it, we grow within it and, most importantly, we nurture it. Our school has places to sit and feel part of something, places to shelter and places from which to admire the beauty of everything that has grown within it.
We are fortunate to receive tremendous support from our parents and carers. The home school partnership is one of exceptional importance to us as we firmly believe that this is the key to ensuring successful learning for your child.
On arriving at Lift Hockley, you immediately notice the excellent learning behaviour of our pupils and the passion, enthusiasm and friendliness of our staff. We believe that your children’s journey to learning is lifelong and we feel privileged that Lift Hockley is where this very important journey begins.
Mr Jenkins
Principal
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
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