Cleaner

Stone Lodge Academy, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9HW

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  26 August 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  24 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 10 hours per week, 42 weeks per year - Permanent Mondays to Fridays, 4pm to 6pm
• Contract type: Permanent
• Hourly rate: £12.99 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Stone Lodge Academy, Ipswich
• 10 hours per week, 42 weeks per year - Permanent
• Mondays to Fridays, 4pm to 6pm
• Salary: £12.99 per hour

We are looking for a dedicated Cleaner to join our team and help maintain a safe, clean, and hygienic learning environment for students and staff. This role is essential in ensuring the school meets high cleanliness and health standards.

You will be responsible for cleaning designated areas of the school, following all relevant health and safety procedures. Your duties will include cleaning classrooms, offices, toilets, and communal areas, vacuuming and mopping floors, and responding promptly to spills when required. You will also be responsible for cleaning windows, replenishing supplies, and carrying out deep cleans as scheduled to ensure all areas of the school are kept to a high standard.

As a key holder, you will be required to open and secure the premises at the beginning and end of shifts, ensuring all doors and windows are locked and alarms are set correctly. You will take responsibility for the safe storage of cleaning materials and equipment, report any maintenance issues, security concerns, or health and safety hazards to the site manager, and ensure that the building remains secure when occupied or vacant.

This position requires reliability, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all members of the school community.

What the school offers its staff

For further information please contact our recruitment team at: recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk

Completed application forms should be made via our recruitment portal.If you have not heard from a member of the HR Team within 14 working days of the closing date, please presume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Closing Date: 08:00 on Wednesday 26th August 2026

Interviews: To be held on Thursday 10th September 2026

We reserve the right to appoint prior to listed closing date, early applications are encouraged. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, gender reassignment, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age in accordance with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

The EEGSL is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment practices and will undertake all the required pre-employment checks on the successful candidate including an enhanced DBS Disclosure.

All data will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018. For more information about how we access and use your information please visit our website.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

SENDAT Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment checks will be required for all of our staff at SENDAT.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Stone Lodge Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• Size: 175 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Stone Lodge Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stone-lodge-academy

Arranging a visit to Stone Lodge Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk.

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