Cleaner in Charge

Teaching Vacancies; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Walkergate Community School in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a part-time Cleaner in Charge to join the site team. You will supervise the cleaning team, perform duties to ensure high standards of cleanliness and safety, and manage cleaning stock and equipment.

The role runs 17.5 hours per week, 3:00pm to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, at the Early Years site within the NEAT Academy Trust, with safeguarding and compliance at its core to provide a safe learning environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a team and prioritising workloads.
• Ability to act as a keyholder and perform security checks.
• Excellent standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
• Ability to follow procedures and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day supervision of the cleaning team.
• Carry out cleaning duties to ensure standards, safety policies and procedures are met.
• Manage cleaning stock and equipment.

Skills

Team leadership

Keyholder duties

Organisational skills

Work independently

Time management

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Can you help maintain a safe, clean and hygienic environment for our learners? Walkergate Community School are seeking to appoint a Cleaner in Charge to join their team at their Early Years site.

You'll provide day-to-day supervision, carry out cleaning duties to ensure standards, safety policies and procedures are met and manage cleaning stock and equipment.

We are looking for a colleague who has:

• Experience in managing a team, with the ability to lead, motivate, and effectively prioritise workloads for both yourself and others.
• Ability to act as a keyholder responsible for locking and securing the premises at the end of the school day, alongside carrying out basic security checks.
• Excellent organisational skills and high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
• Ability to follow procedures, work independently on your own initiative, and consistently meet deadlines.

What the school offers its staff

Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.

Our school motto is ‘Together we make a difference’. At Walkergate Community School we are lucky enough to have a passionate workforce who all care for and respect the fantastic children of our school. As a research school, we are dedicated to school improvement and we all aim to provide a happy, safe and engaging school environment for the children and our staff too.

In return we offer:

• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across our trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
• Cycle to work scheme offering savings on a range of bikes and safety equipment via salary sacrifice.
• Access to free eyes tests for DSE users.
• Opportunities for flexible working. Discounts for large national retailers and local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, insurance and much more.
• Membership of the Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
• Family friendly schemes such as maternity, paternity, shared parental and emergency dependent leave.

Further details about the role

This post is part time working 17.5 hours per week, 3:00pm - 6:30 pm Monday to Friday.

midnight on Sunday 8th November 2026.

The expected date for interviews is Thursday 12th November 2026.

NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.

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.