Cleaner

Overdale Junior School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3YA

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  21 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 May 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: £12.26 Hourly Actual salary: £8,909 per annum (37.66% FTE)

Cleaner job summary

Join Our Team at Oak Multi Academy Trust!

An opportunity has arisen at Overdale Junior School and Overdale Infant School for a Cleaner to join our team. You will take 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 across two schools, situated on the same site.

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.

Hours of Work

15 hours per week, 6.00am – 9.00am working Monday to Friday, term time plus 4 weeks per year

Salary

£12.26 per hour

Job requirements

• Experience of undertaking general cleaning duties
• Ability to manage time effectively
• 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.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Overdale Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 481 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Overdale Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/overdale-junior-school-leicester

We are situated on the southern edge of the city of Leicester in a mainly residential area. Our school campus is shared with Overdale Infant School, with which there is increasingly close liaison.

The school was opened in September 1956, with a new extension added in 2009. We have 16 mixed ability classes across Years 3 to 6 totalling around 480 pupils. Our children develop strong relationships with the teachers and peers through their learning and extracurricular activities.

We are fortunate to have a great deal of outside space at the school, including all weather playgrounds, a sports field and a wooded area and we are an established Forest School to make even more use of the green space around the school for learning opportunities.

Overdale Junior School works with children to:

-develop enquiring minds;

-teach them to reach high standards in all areas of the curriculum, according to their ability;

-be highly motivated learners;

-develop high self-esteem and self-respect;

-encourage them to extend and challenge their own self-belief;

-develop imaginative, creative and logical thinking;

-enable them to live in harmony in a diverse world;

-develop a healthy mind and body; and

-value the environment

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