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Cleaner - Part-time

Copperfield Academy, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-2024-274S
  • Posted:11/09/2024
  • Pay:Kent Range 3 - £23,337 FTE
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:25/09/2024 at 12:00
  • Interviews:Wednesday 02 October 2024

Advert

As a school cleaner at Copperfield Academy, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment for our children and staff.  We are looking for a cleaner for 15 hours per week, 3 hours per day, Monday to Friday, 43 weeks per year (including Term Time).

Your hard work ensures that our facilities are sanitised and ready for learning every day, and there’s nothing more important than that!

Just so you know, our teachers are very mindful of the work of our school cleaners. They don’t get the glitter out unless it is absolutely necessary!

We are seeking a hard-working and dedicated school cleaner to work in our friendly school. You will work as part as a team, undertaking various cleaning duties throughout the school to ensure our children’s learning environment is always clean. For the successful candidate we can offer a permanent contract working on a part-time basis.  

In particular, successful applicants should have: 

  • Experience of similar work
  • Ability to work constructively as part of a team
  • Ability to relate well to children and to adults
  • Good organising and prioritising skills
  • Ability to keep accurate cleaning records
  • Evidence of a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
  • Ability to work flexibly to suit school needs

You should: 

  • Have good communication skills
  • Have the ability to use initiative
  • Be willing to undertake direction and guidance
  • Be ready to work as part of a team
  • Use time effectively to ensure all spaces are ready for learning

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Information about the school

Copperfield is an old and long-established Northfleet School, having opened as Dover Road School in 1904.

Increasing success in recent years has meant we are fast becoming a very popular school with local families, and we currently have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren here of former pupils. We are known for extending a warm welcome to families that are new to Gravesend and to many families new to the UK.

As part of the nationwide REAch2 Academy Trust, leaders and staff at Copperfield are committed to working hard to ensure it is a happy school where pupils of all ages thoroughly enjoy their learning and being at school. We consider ourselves to be a supportive extended family of, and for, all our families that is able to meet the needs of the most-able and the most-challenged.

It is now formally recognised that Copperfield Academy is a good school, and a vibrant school. Classrooms are calm and purposeful places, where pupils learn in a safe atmosphere. Leaders are determined that every pupil’s experience, regardless of their individual needs, is a positive and successful one. As a result, pupils flourish and thrive.

Job Contact Information

Fax: 01474 352413

Documents

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.