Cleaner

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Radcliffe; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Star Radcliffe Academy is seeking a reliable cleaner to help create and maintain a safe learning environment for students. You will ensure classrooms and facilities are clean, safe, and well maintained, with a focus on attention to detail and teamwork.

The role requires a proactive, self-motivated individual who can work on their own initiative and provide excellent customer service to the school community. Prior cleaning experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cleaning roles.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Commitment to safeguarding and safe-working practices.

Responsibilities

• Carry out cleaning duties to maintain a safe, tidy school environment.
• Ensure facilities are clean, safe and well maintained.
• Support safeguarding commitments and report issues promptly.

Skills

Organised

Attention to detail

Team player

Self-motivated

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for Who we’re looking for We’re looking for a highly organised individual to help create, maintain and manage a safe learning environment for our young people.

You will have a keen eye for detail to ensure our facilities are clean, safe and well maintained.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills.

You will have the ability to effectively problem solve and provide excellent customer service to our community.

You will have:

A previous cleaning post.

The ability to undertake a range of cleaning duties.

The ability to work on own initiative.

What the school offers its staff About Star Radcliffe Academy Star Radcliffe Academy is a new and ambitious secondary school at the heart of Radcliffe.

We are a five-form entry, 750-place academy for 11–16 year olds, which opened its doors in September 2024 with our founding Year 7 cohort.

Each year we will grow, welcoming a new intake of Year 7 pupils, and by September 2028 we will be at full capacity, serving every year group.

Our academy exists to provide Radcliffe with a truly outstanding school

• one that raises aspirations, strengthens community pride, and transforms the life chances of every young person we serve.

As a free school built from the ground up, we have the rare privilege of creating our culture, curriculum, and systems with clarity and purpose, shaping excellence one year group at a time.

Like all Star schools, we have a distinctive leadership specialism.

This means we deliver a rigorous, knowledge-rich academic curriculum alongside a character-forming leadership programme.

Pupils are not only equipped with the qualifications and skills they need to succeed but are also inspired to serve others, contribute positively to society, and become leaders in their communities and beyond.

Our belief is simple but profound: every child in Radcliffe has the capacity to succeed at the highest level.

By combining high expectations, exceptional teaching, and a culture built on Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect, we are determined to ensure that our pupils leave us as confident, compassionate, and capable young leaders who ready to make their mark on the world.

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.

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).