28 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April 2025

  • Closing date

    28 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    30 January 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

£23,565.00 Annually (FTE) ALT Grade A, Point 2 - £6,390.66 - Annually Actual

Cleaner job summary

JOIN OUR TEAM

Are you looking for a rewarding role in a school environment? Sidegate Primary School is seeking a dedicated and reliable Cleaner to join our team. This role is vital in ensuring a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for pupils, staff, and visitors.

Job title: Cleaner

Location: Sidegate Primary School

Contract: Permanent, Part-Time, Monday to Friday, 12 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Salary: ALT Grade A, Point 2 - £6,390.66 - Annually Actual

Closing Date: 9am, Friday 28th February 2025

How to Apply: Applications are to be submitted via MyNewTerm website

About us:

Sidegate Primary School is a vibrant and inclusive community of over 650 children located in Ipswich. We are committed to providing a nurturing and supportive environment where every child is valued, respected, and encouraged to achieve their full potential. With a dedicated team of staff, we foster a love of learning and promote a culture of curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted, Sidegate Primary School takes pride in offering a broad and enriching curriculum that nurtures each child's character and prepares them for their next educational journey.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Carry out general cleaning duties, including sweeping, dusting, mopping, vacuuming, and emptying bins
  • Clean and maintain classrooms, corridors, toilets, and other areas of the academy
  • Report any safety or maintenance issues to the line manager

What We Are Looking For:

  • A hardworking and proactive individual with good attention to detail
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Commitment to maintaining high cleaning standards

Why join us?

  • Vivup Benefit System
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • LGPS Pension Scheme
  • Extensive support and development opportunities

If you wish to discover more about this exciting opportunity, then please contact Savannah La'Thangue - savannah.lathangue@sidegate.net

The Active Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people. We expect all staff to actively share this commitment. All adults working in our Trust in whatever capacity will be part of a thorough safer recruitment process. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks including the taking of satisfactory references and enhanced criminal record clearance in line with the need to create and maintain a safe culture.

The Active Learning Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To ensure we recruit and retain the best talent, all new employees recruited to the Active Learning Trust (leadership, teaching and support staff) will be subject to a 6 months’ probation period at the start of their employment. This policy aims to assess new employees' alignment with our culture, teaching standards, and student needs. It is designed to foster success; with regular evaluations and support mechanisms in place, helping us to identify and nurture talent.

We value diversity and welcome applications from all, including those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act. Flexible working will be considered for all roles deemed suitable.

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.

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About Sidegate Primary School

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

Sidegate is a vibrant three-form entry primary school in the north of Ipswich. The school hosts a 25 place Specialist Education Unit for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, giving approximately 655 pupils on roll. The school boasts large grounds, an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium and good ICT provision. We pride ourselves in the broad and engaging curriculum we offer our pupils; sport and culture

feature highly and are used to enhance the curriculum in all areas. The school received a “Good” Ofsted rating in October 2022. We were the first primary school in Suffolk to be awarded the prestigious Platinum Artsmark in November 2019; we also hold quality marks in RE, Science and Sport.

Sidegate became an academy in May 2014 with The Active Learning Trust (ALT). ALT encourages each of their schools to develop a curriculum that meets the needs of the pupils in the school. They work closely with the school, providing specialist advisory support as necessary. We work closely with other schools in the ALT Ipswich Hub and the Northgate Pyramid of Schools. ALT offers a comprehensive package of professional development opportunities for teachers at all levels, to support career progression

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