Part-time School Cleaner
Water Lane Primary Academy, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5RD12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
23 March 2026
Closing date
10 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 February 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
- £24,413.00 - £24,796.00 Annually (FTE) NJC England & Wales SCP 2 to SCP 3 plus Outer Fringe Allowance. Working 10 hours per week/5 days a week, 39 term time weeks (including 5 Inset days). Actual salary is approx £5,656 per annum
Part-time School Cleaner job summary
As a school cleaner at Water Lane Primary Academy, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment for our children and staff.
Your hard work ensures that our facilities are sanitised and ready for learning every day, and there’s nothing more important than that!
Just so you know, our teachers are very mindful of the work of our school cleaners. They don’t get the glitter out unless it is absolutely necessary!
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. For the successful candidate we can offer a permanent contract working on a part-time basis, working 10 hours per week (across 5 days) 39 term-time weeks including 5 Inset days.
In particular, successful applicants should have:
- Experience of similar work
- Ability to work constructively as part of a team
- Ability to relate well to children and to adults
- Good organising and prioritising skills
- Ability to keep accurate cleaning records
- Evidence of a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Ability to work flexibly to suit school needs
You should:
- Have good communication skills
- Have the ability to use initiative
- Be willing to undertake direction and guidance
- Be ready to work as part of a team
- Use time effectively to ensure all spaces are ready for learning
For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.
Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?
Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:
- Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.
- Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.
- Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.
- Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.
- Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.
- Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.
Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.
Benefits
- We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:
- Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.
- Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.
- Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.
- Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.
- Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.
Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
REAch2 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all adults working in or with our schools to share this commitment. Enclosed in our application pack is a copy of our safer recruitment policy, which outlines the steps we take to ensure that we attract the most suitable, candidates, and to help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children or are otherwise unsuited to working with them. We encourage all potential candidates to read this policy carefully in order to fully understand what is expected of you in our recruitment process.
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 Water Lane Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 184 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Water Lane Primary Academy website
Water Lane is tucked away in a lovely, leafy part of Harlow town. We have very large grounds and our school building offers excellent, fit-for-purpose classrooms, a communal IT hub area, a library, two performance halls and a design and technology kitchen for our children. Our school is part of the Reach2 Academy Trust and as such we receive excellent support and CPD at all levels. Our motto is 'enrichment beyond the classroom' and we live up to it by providing our pupils with exceptional and unusual learning experiences. This is done via our broad and engaging curriculum as well through our our 11b411, Visible Learning and Forest School offer.
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