Premises Cleaner
Salary: NJC point 2 (Full time equivalent £23,656)
Uffculme School is looking for friendly, hard working people to join our busy premises team. Our in house cleaning team are central to the ethos of Uffculme School and the team work hard to provide an exceptional cleaning standard. Visitors to the school often remark on how clean and well maintained the school's buildings and site look.
The role involves cleaning designated buildings around the school. There will be day to day use of light and heavy cleaning equipment along with chemicals, cleaning equipment for which PPE will be provided as well as thorough training. Some seasonal work around the outside of buildings may be required from time to time such as window cleaning at ground level, litter picking and leaf sweeping around doorways.
We can offer some flexibility on the number of hours for the right candidate. The role is for 41 weeks of the year, to be worked during term time, plus a week at Easter and 2 weeks in the summer.
We have a range of benefits for our staff including:
• Free onsite parking
• Discounted membership at our onsite gym
• Staff wellbeing offer
• Cycle to work scheme
Applications will be considered as they are received so please do apply swiftly.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 under the Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). This means that both spent and unspent convictions and cautions may need to be disclosed. However, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ under filtering rules and do not need to be disclosed. Guidance on what should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexuality or religion.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
References: References will be taken up on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children, previous employers may be approached for information to verify particular experiences or qualifications before interview.
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