Cleaner

The Canterbury Academy, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8QA

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  30 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 June 2026

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: 12.71

Cleaner job summary

We are recruiting a school cleaner to join our professional site team. We are looking for a reliable and conscientious colleague, who will take pride in the appearance of the school and provide a clean and tidy environment for our students, staff and lettings.

Experience in school cleaning is useful but not essential and using cleaning machines and cleaning products would be an advantage, although training will be provided for the successful applicant. Common sense and the ability to be self-motivated is essential. You will need to work as part of a team under the direction of the Cleaning Manager.

Working hours are 06:00 - 09:15 and 15:00 -18:15, Monday to Friday, total 31.25 hours per week.

Working as part of our dedicated team, duties will include vacuuming, polishing, emptying bins, toilet cleaning etc. You must be able to use your own initiative and be motivated to work in an educational setting with children. Experience is desirable but full training will be given.

Specific Duties     

• To undertake as required appropriate training in the use of equipment and chemicals used.
• Provide a comprehensive cleaning service to include dusting, vacuuming, washing floors, emptying bins etc. to ensure high standards of cleanliness and hygiene at all times.
• Removal of graffiti from reach heights daily as required.
• Wiping of skirting boards and walls daily.
• Collection and disposal of rubbish to designated areas.
• Maintain clean toilets to ensure hygiene standards are met. Mop floors daily.
• Ensure grounds are kept free from rubbish and debris so a clean and tidy site is maintained at all times.
• To replenish hand towels, hand soap and toilet roll as required.
• Report any premises or equipment defects to a senior caretaker.
• Undertake, if working during School Holiday shutdowns, a complete “deep clean” of all areas. Including window cleaning, moving furniture to clean, behind radiators, outside areas etc.

Please complete the application form to apply for the position.

In addition to providing the highest standards of teaching and learning, the priority of the Academy is the safety and welfare of its students. Therefore all staff undergo an enhanced DBS investigation and full references will be taken.

Subject to satisfactory appraisal, you may be eligible to progress within your pay band following set increments.

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

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.

About The Canterbury Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1984 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Canterbury Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-canterbury-academy

The Canterbury Academy creates ‘a wealth of opportunity’ and allows us to offer 'as much as possible, as often as possible, for as many as possible'. Our simple aim is to ‘improve the life chances of children and to help in the community’.

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