Cleaner

Solent Infant School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 1DH

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Monday 2 June 2025 (but may be sooner subject to all relevent checks)

• Closing date

  9 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  9 April 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: £23,473.00 - £23,656.00 Annually (FTE) Band 1 (£23473 - £23656, annual FTE, pro rata)

Cleaner job summary

Job details: Cleaner

12.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday 3.30pm to 6pm.

Term time only plus 1 week

Band 1 (£23473 - £23656, FTE, pro rata)

Contract : permanent

Start date : Monday 2 June 2025 (or could be sooner, subject to references, employment checks & clear Enhanced DBS

Closing date: Friday 9 May 2025 (midday)

Interviews: afternoon of Thursday 15 May 2025

We are looking for a well organised, self-motivated person to join our friendly and approachable staff team. Both experienced and new to role would be welcome to apply given relevant skills. The cleaner will report directly to the Assistant Caretaker and Site Manager.

As a Cleaner, you will be responsible for ensuring we provide a clean and safe learning environment for pupils and staff. You will be joining our site team who are all enthusiastic and friendly and follow an organised, efficient cleaning programme. You will need to be resilient and hard working with the ability to work to your own initiative while understanding the need to work as part of a cohesive team. You will be required to work term time plus one week in the school summer holidays to achieve the deep clean of the school and its wider areas.

There may also be the need to be flexible to meet the needs of the school and support out of school events.

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Clare Winnicott by email to recruit@thesolentschools.org to arrange a tour. If there are any specific questions about the role, please indicate these in your email and someone will contact you.

Should you wish to apply, then please complete your application form here on My New Term

Please note, we do not accept cv’s.

The De Curci Trust and Solent Infant School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with all other relevant employment checks.

Completed application forms will be passed to the recruitment panel for shortlisting and will be reviewed against the person specification detailed in the advert. Applications will be assessed upon receipt, and we reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date. An early application is therefore strongly advised.

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 Solent Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 269 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Solent Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/solent-infant-school

Solent Infant School is a thriving, oversubscribed three form entry infant school. It is situated in Farlington on the Northern boundary between the city of Portsmouth and Hampshire. The school feeds directly into Solent Junior School which is located close by. In April 2017, Solent Infant School converted into an academy, and is now proud to be part of The De Curci Trust. The De Curci Trust is a small, recently established Multi Academy Trust, comprising just three schools; Solent Infant School, Solent Junior School and Springfield Secondary School.

Solent Infant School is well known amongst our community for being a bright, warm and happy school with a keen focus on the good mental health of our staff and pupils. Visitors to the school frequently comment upon how the ethos and values permeate throughout all that we do. Our pupils are extremely enthusiastic learners, a result of the unfaltering focus on developing the whole child through an enriched and rewarding curriculum. Solent Infant School offers a truly inclusive education, focusing on individual achievement, celebrating successes that are entirely relevant to the special journey of each of our magical pupils.

The school has been through some challenging, yet exciting changes over the past few years. Leadership structure, in turn, has changed significantly to reflect the current educational landscape, ensuring that we continue to provide our pupils with the best possible education and care. Despite still legally being defined as two separate schools, with two separate DfE numbers, Solent Infant and Junior Schools now work extremely closely together as The Solent Schools with one shared Local Governing Body. Those that are new to the school often mistake us for a through primary school. The Schools have a number of shared staff including The Executive Headteacher, Site, Administrative and Network Managers. Feedback has told us that this shared working offers our pupils and their families a truly consistent, cohesive and highly effective approach from the moment they arrive in Year R to the day they leave Year 6. Our staff wellbeing surveys tell us that Solent is a lovely, caring and supportive place to work where staff wellbeing is given a high priority.

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