Cleaner

The Westborough School, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 9BS

10 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
14 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 February 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: £5,870.22 Annually (Actual)

Cleaner job summary

Westborough School is an exciting and vibrant place to learn and provides a happy, caring and safe environment for pupils. Our staff are brilliant and work very hard to ensure that pupils’ experience of school is a positive one, which promotes a love of learning. Pupils come from a variety of cultural backgrounds; they have different religions and speak different languages. The school celebrates and values this diversity and encourages pupils to be proud of their own culture, religion and language and to show respect for those of others.

We are seeking a hard-working and dedicated School Cleaner to work in our friendly school. You will work as part as a team, undertaking various cleaning duties throughout the school to ensure our children’s learning environment is always clean.

We would like you to have:

Essential

Understanding of cleaning duties and knowledge of best practices in cleaning

Ability to work under own initiative without supervision

Awareness of the importance of providing a quality service and satisfying the cleaning requirements of the school

Awareness of the importance of hygiene in the work place

Ability to work on your own and to work as part of a team

Reliable

Desirable

Understanding of Health and Safety regulations as they relate to the operation of cleaning equipment and materials

Awareness of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Understanding of the School’s ethos and values

Understanding of school policies and willingness and ability to work within these

A ‘Can do attitude’

In return we can offer:

a friendly atmosphere and working environment

experienced and dedicated staff

a positive school ethos

training to ensure you can fulfil all aspects of the job description.

Westborough School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All post-holders working in our school will be considered to work in Regulated Activity and will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance all shortlisted candidates may be subject to online searches that may include social media. For further information please contact hr@seeat.org.

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.