Cleaning Supervisor
Ad Astra Infant School, Poole, Dorset, BH17 8AP22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
15 September 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
- £24,404.00 Annually (FTE) Salary Grade A (Point 2) £24404 Pro-rata 12.5 hours per week, Actual Salary - £7336.56 PA
Cleaning Supervisor job summary
The successful candidates will be responsible for ensuring a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. This role requires a commitment to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the school, under the direction of the Headteacher.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise the cleaning team to ensure all areas of the school are cleaned to a high standard.
- Perform regular cleaning duties including dusting, sweeping, mopping, hoovering, polishing floors and sanitising surfaces.
- Empty bins and dispose of waste appropriately
- Restock cleaning and hygiene supplies
- Coordinate and participate in deep cleaning tasks during school holidays, ensuring thorough cleaning of classrooms, hallways, toilets, and other facilities.
- Ensure cleaning supplies and equipment are used effectively and are well-maintained.
- Adhere to health and safety regulations, ensuring a safe working environment.
- Report any maintenance or repair needs to the Headteacher
Requirements:
Proven experience in a cleaning role, preferably in a school or similar environment.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to supervise and motivate a team.
- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to high standards of cleanliness.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Good communication skills.
- Physical ability to perform cleaning tasks, including lifting and moving equipment.
- Flexibility to work additional hours during school holidays for deep cleaning.
We can offer:
- Fun, friendly and supportive staff who get on well together
- Rights’ Respecting pupils with excellent attitudes to learning and outstanding behaviour
- Superb opportunities and specialist training for career professional development within our Trust
- A fantastic induction programme
- Enviable support at all levels, and a proactive approach to staff well-being, work-life balance and care for each person as an individual, including the ability to take time off during term time
- Beautiful school grounds and welcoming learning environments
- Highly competitive rates of pay and excellent pension contributions by the Trust.
These schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Rigorous checks will be undertaken of the successful applicant’s background credentials including an enhanced DBS check. Suitability to work with children will be explored at interview.
Personal information provided by candidates will be securely filed electronically and password protected and paper copies locked in filing cabinets in a locked office. They will not be released to third parties outside the school without the consent of the person concerned, except where there is a legal requirement to do so. If the application does not proceed, the data will be securely disposed of after 6 months. Any concerns regarding data gathered in the recruitment process should be directed to the Data Manager - Hayley Hemmings at h.hemmings@teachpoole.com
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
At Ad Astra Infant School, safeguarding is of the utmost importance. The school aims to help protect the children in its care by working consistently and appropriately with all agencies to reduce risk and promote the welfare of children.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Ad Astra Infant School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 253 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ad Astra Infant School website
Ad Astra is the smallest of the four schools within the TEACH Trust, and due to its cosy size, has a warm and nurturing atmosphere. Enwrapped with greenery, Ad Astra has the luxury of beautiful grounds, a large field, nature zones and newly refurbished play areas.
Its broad and balanced curriculum offers rich opportunities for children to discover and explore, as well as develop their skills and understanding across a breadth of subjects. Ad Astra has a diverse range of clubs on offer, both internal and external, which the children absolutely love to participate in. Its staff have very high expectations and do whatever it takes to enable Ad Astra's children to feel safe, achieve and succeed.
Children are at the centre of everything they do, and this has been recognised by UNICEF when the school earned Gold Level Rights' Respecting status in 2019. They are also a Gold certified anti-bullying school which also achieved the All Together Anti-Bullying award in 2021. Alongside this, the school embraces the values of growth mindset, which instils in all its children a confident 'can do' attitude and genuine love of learning.
What makes Ad Astra really special is its supportive close-knit community. The children, families and staff collaborate and work together in partnership to make Ad Astra a place where children can thrive.
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