19 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    17 October 2025

  • Closing date

    7 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 October 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

£12.37 per hour

School Cleaner - Afternoon job summary

School Cleaner – Aurora Eccles and White House Schools, Quidenham, Norfolk

Location: Quidenham, Norwich, NR16 2NZ

Salary: £12.37 per hour

Hours: 4 hours daily, Monday to Friday. 2pm - 6pm.

Contract Type: Perm 20 hours per week, Term time only plus 2 weeks

Aurora White House School and Aurora Eccles School

We’re currently looking for a part time Cleaner to join our housekeeping team. You will be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness throughout the school.

Part of the Aurora Group, Aurora Eccles and White House Schools in Quidenham, Norwich provides day placements for students aged 6 to 16 years primarily with communication and interaction difficulties or specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Some may be on the autistic spectrum or have anxieties and difficulties that create barriers to learning.

Key Duties:

  • Dusting and polishing
  • Maintaining clean and sanitary kitchen areas
  • Vacuuming and washing floors
  • Tidying up rooms
  • Monitoring cleaning supplies and ordering more as and when needed
  • Reporting any necessary repairs
  • Keeping bathrooms stocked and clean
  • Emptying bins and disposing of waste

Please note that duties will vary and you must expect to lend a hand wherever is required.

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

Due to the location of the school, candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • Enhanced Holiday Allowance
  • Free onsite parking
  • Perkbox - offering high street discounts
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Car lease scheme
  • Fully funded training and qualifications
  • Bike to work scheme
  • Family Swim

Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more

How to Apply:

Please complete in full the attached 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

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.

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About Aurora White House School

School type
Special school, ages 5 to 16
School size
62 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 16
Ofsted report
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School location

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