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Newcastle City Council is recruiting a Cleaner to join the Facility Services team at Westerhope Primary School. The role is site-specific with duties including cleaning corridors, classrooms, offices and toilets, using required equipment, and completing tasks to fixed deadlines.
Average hours are 10 per week, 3:15pm to 5:15pm, Monday to Friday, with a pay rate of £13.45 per hour. Full training is provided, DBS checks will be required, and employees benefit from the Local Government Pension
*We are proud to be an accredited Real Living Wage Council, paying all of our employees a minimum of 13.45 per hour; leading and setting standards for good work within the city.
City Operations, Transport and Neighbourhoods Directorate
Facility Services & Civic Management.
Westerhope Primary School, Hill Head Road, NE5 1NE
Cleaner x 1 – 10.00 hours per week, 3:15pm to 5:15pm Monday to Friday
£13.45 per hour
Newcastle City Council are currently looking for reliable and friendly people with a positive attitude to join our Facility Services team as a Cleaner. No experience is necessary as full training will be provided.
This is a site‑specific advert for our school Cleaning roles. If you are interested in other locations advertised by Newcastle City Council, please mention this in the additional information part of the application form.
Working as a team and using your own initiative, daily duties will involve cleaning designated areas such as corridors, classrooms, offices and toilet areas using required equipment. Whilst working to fixed deadlines, responsibilities include emptying bins, mopping and vacuuming floors, so regular stooping, bending and lifting will be required. To carry out these tasks, candidates will need to have a basic understanding of both written and spoken English due to the use of chemicals.
This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful, we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a DBS check (Data and Barring System) to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.
In order to complete a DBS check you will have to provide us with ID documents to allow us to process your checks. Please make sure you check the list of acceptable ID attached to this advert. You will not be able to start this role without a DBS and you cannot complete a DBS without the relevant ID so this is essential.
Facility Services and Civic Management work across the city and Gateshead providing building cleaning, caretaking, school meals and welfare catering services.
We have a large team of cleaners, cleaner supervisors, facility supervisors (caretakers), catering assistants, assistant chefs and chefs working various hours and shifts in schools and public buildings.
Our service is committed to delivering a high standard of service to our customers and in doing so investing in our staff and staff development.