Housekeeper/Cleaner
Aurora Brooklands School, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 7TB11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
18 September 2025
Closing date
31 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £12.71 - £13.22 /hr
Housekeeper/Cleaner job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
School Cleaner – Aurora Brooklands School
Location: Midge Hall, near Leyland, Lancashire
Salary: £12.71 - £13.22 /hr
Hours: Monday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Contract Type: Permanent, Part-Time (20 hours per week), Term time only (+3 weeks additional during school holidays)
Start Date: ASAP
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. Our pupils are with us because for each of them, the nature of the mainstream provision that they have experienced, has not met their needs. They will have had a very fractured and or traumatic educational journey. We work with them and support them to build back their confidence and self-esteem, thereby re-engaging them in learning socially and academically. We focus on their strengths, helping them realise the opportunities that are there for them in their future.
Key Duties:
- Cleaning all surfaces, walls, internal woodwork, fixtures and fittings as appropriate
- Dusting and polishing
- Maintaining clean and sanitised kitchenette areas, within the classrooms.
- Vacuuming and washing floors
- Keeping shower room, all toilets, stocked and clean
- Ensuring that cleaning supplies are used safely and effectively, reporting shortages or the need for additional supplies, to the admin team.
- Tidying up rooms/classrooms/communal areas
- Emptying, cleaning and maintaining bins and disposing of waste
- Undertaking basic record keeping as directed
Please note that duties will vary, and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of the school when required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Skills and Qualifications
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Ability to work well in a team and on own initiative
- Demonstrable attention to detail and pride in work
- Ability to recognise the need for confidentiality
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to be flexible
- Understanding of principles of Health and Safety
- COSHH – safe use of chemicals
- Electrical safety
- First Aid Certificate – desirable but not essential
Requirements:
- Good level of fitness
- The role will require some manual handling tasks – lifting, carrying
- Ability to work with appropriate cleaning products
- Ability to safely use a range of cleaning equipment
- Understanding of health and safety legislation and/or have a willingness to learn
- Ongoing training will be provided to support this role
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
- Training and Development
Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.
- Save money on your bills!!
With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.
- Competitive Pay and Reward
Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.
- UK Health Cash Plan
This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.
- Employee Assistance Programme
Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.
- Refer a friend for £1,000
We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
How to Apply:
You can apply online by completing our online application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Brooklands School
- School type
- Special school, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 58 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aurora Brooklands School website
School location
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