Cleaner
Minehead First School, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5RG42 days remaining to apply
Job start date
19 December 2025
Closing date
30 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 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
- 12.65
Cleaner job summary
An opportunity has arisen at Minehead First School for a Cleaner to join our team, taking pride in maintaining a safe and secure environment for our learners by keeping cleanliness to a high standard and undertaking necessary procedures to assist with day-to-day maintenance.
Role: Cleaner
Salary: £12.65 per hour
Hours: 10 hours per week
Working weeks: 40 weeks (term time plus 2 weeks, which may include INSET days)
Work Location: Based at Minehead First School but may be required to work across all areas / locations of Beacon Education.
Job overview
As part of our wider school team, you will have responsibility for the overall cleanliness and security of the school classrooms and site, having awareness of security policies, maintaining supplies of cleaning materials, and working with other members of the site team to keep the site to a standard expected by leadership and management.
Job requirements
- Experience of undertaking general cleaning duties
- Ability to manage time effectively in order to carry out day-to-day operations and assist with the smooth running of the school
- Awareness of the relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working around children and young people
Why join us?
You’ll have the opportunity to join a committed team of support staff, taking pride in upholding high standards to ensure all staff can enjoy working within a safe and clean environment, with training opportunities available and the ability to make a positive difference within the overall team.
This position will be offered to the successful candidate subject to references and obtaining the necessary clearances.
Please note: Beacon Education reserves the right to interview on a rolling basis and may make an appointment before the application deadline. We would therefor encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible.
This position will be offered to the successful candidate subject to references and obtaining the necessary clearances. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and interviews will be conducted on a rolling bases as and when applications are successful, so candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment should the vacancy close early.
Beacon Education adheres to Safer Recruitment procedures and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share our commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhance DBS check.
Beacon Education reserves the right to carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates. This will only include a search for information which is publicly available online.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
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.
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 Minehead First School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 308 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Minehead First School website
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