Supervisory Cleaner Caretaker

Reference:
23-25836

Job title:
Supervisory Cleaner Caretaker - Syr Hugh Owen School

Directorate:
Education

Service:
Ancillary Services

Closing date:
09/02/2024 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 16.25 Hour

Salary:
£8,799 - £8,945 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Term time job:
41 Weeks

Location(s):
Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, Caernarfon

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack**

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact** Kathleen Devenport Jones on** 07889881046**

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 09/02/2024**

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**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work**
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**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
To be able to work as part of a team

**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Training in cleaning methods

Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Experience of supervising staff

Experience of being employed as a cleaner.

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Good interpersonal skills

Good communication skills

**Language requirements**:
**Listening and Speaking - Entry**:
Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.

**Reading and Understanding - Entry**:
**Writing - Entry**:
Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- To supervise cleaning staff on site.
- To undertake, as part of a team, the cleaning of designated areas within the school premises to ensure that they are kept in a clean and hygienic condition.
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Staff
- Equipment
- Building

**Main duties**:
General
- In conjunction with the School Catering and Cleaning Team Leader to be responsible for ordering of cleaning materials as and when required.
- Cleaning of a specific area of the site and security of the premises at the end of the cleaning period.
- Supervise cleaning staff on site. This to include certifying job sheets.

Daily Tasks
- Confirming to day to day requirements of health and safety affecting staff and any other persons that visit or uses the site.
- Ensure that all cleaning staff follow good working practices in keeping with any Statutory Provisions and Gwynedd Council Policies.
- Supervising cleaning staff on the site. Allocating duties and working arrangements, training and countersign timesheets.
- Ensure that all members of the cleaning team have received induction training, health and safety training before starting work.
- Responsible for managing staff absences by completing sickness absence recording form SA1 and return to work interview form SA2.
- Unlock all gates and disable the alarm.Unlocking of entrance doors and all classrooms doors half an hour before the morning opening of the establishment as required by the Headteacher.
- During heating periods as specified by the headteacher, to ensure that the heating system is operating at the required level so as to ensure the required temperature is achieved by the time of opening of the establishment.
- When heating system is operated by automatic timing mechanism, ensuring that the system is operating as required before opening of the establishment.
- To report to the headteacher any fault or irregularities observed in individual heaters or in the general heating system.
- Cleaning and clearing of all outside covered areas, porches and hard-paved areas of potentially dangerous or unsightly litter e.g. empty cans, broken glass or bottles before children arrive at the premises.
- To purchase and distribute paper towels, toilet rolls and liquid hand soap throughout the establishment as required.
- Report to the headteacher any damage found to school property, defects in fittings or bad smelling drains etc, which cannot be attended to.
- At the close of the establishment to ensure that all lights are switched off and heaters/central heating systems are set at the correct stand-by setting as demanded by the prevailing weather conditions.
- Ensure that heaters etc are free of combustible materials.
- Close and secure main gates as appropriate at the end of the school day.

Periodic Tasks
- To maintain drain traps and