School Cleaner - The Grange School

Buckinghamshire Council; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A local council in Aylesbury is seeking a part-time cleaner to join its team. This role involves maintaining high cleanliness standards, working collaboratively with other staff members, and supporting the premises team. Ideal candidates will have good communication and organizational skills, be proactive in their work, and enjoy helping others. Working hours are Monday to Friday during term time, totaling 15-20 hours per week.

Benefits

Access to staff well-being resources

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Team player with good communication and organization skills.
• Enjoy helping others and making improvements.
• Ability to maintain high cleaning standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cleanliness of designated area.
• Take initiative to perform additional cleaning tasks.
• Liaise with staff to ensure smooth cleaning operations.
• Report cleaning supply needs.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety standards.
• Support other cleaning team members.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Job description

We are looking for cleaners to join our friendly premises team.

If you are a team player with good communication and organisation skills and you enjoy helping others and making improvements this role could be for you.

Salary: Bucks Pay Range 1, Point 7 to Point 10, approximately depending on experience, Equivalent to £12.56/hour to £12.93/hour.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part Time, 15-20 hours per week for 39 weeks of the year, Monday to Friday term time only plus Inset days. Working hours to be 3:15 pm to 6:15/7:15pm Monday to Friday.

About us

Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages. The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident, and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success.

We support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.

• Be responsible for ensuring the cleanliness of your designated area and for maintaining high and consistent standard
• Take initiative to perform cleaning and tidying tasks that are not specifically contained within the rota but require attention as part of maintaining overall high standards.
• Liaise with the Site Manager, School Caretakers, the Cleaning Supervisor and other members of staff as required to ensure the cleaning rota operates smoothly around both school events and outside le
• Report cleaning supplies requirements and stock levels to the Site Manager.
• Ensure Health & Safety, quality, and general procedure complianc
• Work as part of a team and support other members of the cleaning team to meet standards and school objectiv
• Keep accurate timesheets for any hours worked over the core hours in this contract and ensure they are signed by the Cleaning Supervisor.

For further information please see attached Job description.

About you

If you are a team player with good communication and organisation skills and you enjoy helping others and making improvements this role could be for you.

Other information

Visits to the school are welcomed.

Further details are available on our website.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.

The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.