Part Time School Cleaner

School Cleaner

Location Darwen, Lancashire

Salary £12.71 to £13.22 p/hr

Hours 10 hours per week term time only working Monday to Friday 2.15pm-4.15pm

The Aurora Woodlands School is an 'Good' rated innovative provider of education and care, supporting students aged 10 - 19 with complex needs typically related to Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism and other conditions.

We’re currently looking for a Part Time Cleaner working afternoons Monday - Friday, term time only.

The Role

To provide a cleaning service for the school across all types of rooms, including offices, classrooms, laboratories, halls, corridors, and toilets.

Key Duties

• Duties to include the following
• Vacuum cleaning floors.
• Spot cleaning of spillages.
• Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass.
• Emptying and cleaning bins (daily).
• Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds.
• Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces.
• Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing.
• Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily).
• Undertake deep clean as and when required.
• Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit.
• Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time.
  
  
  

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description

Job Description Part Time School Cleaner

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate

• Some knowledge of Health and Safety Regulation in regards to cleaning equipment and cleaning materials.
• Ability to work effectively and supportively as a member of the school team.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to prioritise work and be flexible.
• Experience of undertaking a range of cleaning duties.
  
  
  

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development
  
  
  

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• FREE Lunch! All staff are able to take advantage of school lunches whilst onsite, at no cost
• Save money on your bills!!
  
  
  

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward
  
  
  

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan
  
  
  

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
  

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000
  
  
  

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at [email protected]

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.