School Cleaner

**Full Job Description**:
**Job Title: School Cleaner**

**Location: Falkland House School, Falkland Estate, Falkland**

**Salary: £9,846.72 per annum**

**Hours: 18 hours per week; Tue/ Wed/ Thurs 6hr days**

**Contract: Permanent; 52 weeks per year**

**Must be UK based.**

If you really want to make your mark in a rapidly growing business that is committed to improving the lives of children and young people, we have the role for you

We’re looking for a School Cleaner to join our School. Someone who will work as part of a team to perform a variety of regular and one-off cleaning tasks and duties as directed by their line manager.

**About the School**

Falkland House School is an independent residential school for boys from primary to aged 18 years. Our pupils have a range of Additional Support Needs including emotional and behavioural difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We were the first independent school in Scotland (outside of the NAS) to receive accreditation from the National Autistic Society.

Options Autism is part of the Outcomes First Group and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

We provide Education and Care across a number of schools and residential homes nationally. Our specialist SEN provision, coupled with our expertise within residential care means we offer thousands of vulnerable children across the UK a holistic, wraparound care, residential and education service, empowering them with everything they need to flourish.

**Purpose of the job**

The School Cleaner will perform a variety of regular and one-off cleaning tasks and duties as directed by the Operations Manager.

**Main Duties**:

- To dust, damp wipe, wash or polish furniture, ledges, windowsills, external surfaces of: - cupboards, radiators, shelves and fitments
- Empty waste bins or similar receptacles, transporting waste materials to designated collection points
- To replenish consumable items (soap, toilet rolls, paper towels) if required
- To clean toilets, urinals, hand basins and sinks, showers
- Vacuum rugs and carpets and remove stains using brushes and cleaners

**Experience**
- Experience of undertaking a range of cleaning duties

**Skills**
- Ability to work effectively and supportively as a member of the school team
- Ability to work in an organised and methodical manner
- Ability to act on own initiative, dealing with any unexpected problems that arise
- Ability to demonstrate commitment to Equal Opportunities

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.