Cleaner

Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 3HN

9 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  17 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 July 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: 24,795.47 - 25,184.97 Pro rata

Cleaner job summary

Cleaner – Willow Wood Community Nursery & Primary School

We are looking to appoint a hardworking and friendly cleaner to join our dedicated and committed site team.

The successful candidate will ideally have previous cleaning experience. It is essential the candidate is a good team member and can be flexible in their approach to their work but is also able to use their initiative and work on their own.

The role will include cleaning classrooms, offices, toilets etc. The site team are responsible for maintaining the high standards of cleanliness throughout the school. Please refer to the job description for more information on the role and responsibilities.

Hours are 3.00pm to 6.00pm, Mon – Fri 15 hours a week, 42 weeks per year. Holidays must be taken during school holidays.

Grade 3 SCP 3 £12.85/hour

The successful candidate will be subject to stringent vetting and enhanced DBS procedures. We are committed to safe recruitment and ensuring the safety of our children, appointments would be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and satisfactory references. We may conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates as part of our safer recruitment processes.

At Willow Wood Community Nursery & Primary School we challenge, promote and encourage the highest standards of safeguarding practice through review, audit and scrutiny to ensure better outcomes for the children in our care. Our school fully recognises the contribution it can make to safeguard and protect all children and support pupils. The school is committed to creating and maintaining a safe learning environment for children and young people, identifying where there are child welfare concerns and acting to address them, in partnership with families and other agencies. We aim to provide a safe, caring and happy environment for all members of the school community.

The closing date is Friday 17th July 2026 at 12:00pm and applications should be made online.

Interviews will take place on Monday 20th July 2026

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 Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 310 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/willow-wood-community-nursery-and-primary-school

Willow Wood Community Primary School is a happy and successful learning community where everybody is welcomed, supported and challenged to achieve their best.
We aim to create an open and welcoming learning community, where all voices are valued and listened to. We provide excellent teaching and learning opportunities within a broad, balanced and enriching curriculum so our children develop as happy, well balanced, caring individuals who can make good decisions for themselves and their world.

Willow Wood is set in spacious grounds equipped with a good range of outdoor facilities to support learning; outdoor classrooms; a wooden trim trail; play equipment, a pond, a woodland and even an outdoor ampitheatre created by the children which is perfect for rolling down!

The indoor learning environment has a campus feel and consists of 3 buildings which have been named by the children as - the Snowflake Building, the Sunshine Building and the Rainbow Building. The classrooms are all generously proportioned, light and airy. There are two halls, an art studio, library areas and community spaces - we are very fortunate to have so much space to carry out our fun, investigative approach to learning

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