Cleaner - Lady Lumley's School

**Lady Lumley’s School**

**Post: Cleaner**

**Commencing: As soon as possible**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Hours/working pattern: 15 hours per week, Monday - Friday 3pm - 6pm.**

**Salary: Grade AB SCP 2, £11.59 per hour.**

**Our Opportunity**

We have a vacancy for a reliable and committed cleaner to work within our existing team to clean the school. You must be enthusiastic with a can-do attitude and be capable of working as part of a team as well as working alone.

Previous experience is not essential as full training is given. Uniform provided. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Lady Lumley’s School**

Lady Lumley’s benefits from the knowledge and experience of Coast and Vale Trust. We retain our unique school identity with shared ambitious vision. Through leadership development, collaboration and investment Lady Lumley’s is enabled to maintain its identity whilst belonging to a larger family of schools.

**Coast and Vale Learning Trust**

Coast and Vale Learning Trust is a growing family of schools located on the beautiful Yorkshire Coast. The Trust was founded by Scalby Secondary School but has grown over the last few years to include Newby and Scalby Primary School, Friarage Primary School, and the Scarborough University Technical College (SUTC) in Scarborough, Filey Secondary School and Lady Lumley’s Secondary School in Pickering. Our ambition is to continue to welcome new schools into our Trust where we can add capacity, resources, improvement and to make sure all our young people have access to the very best education.

The aim of the trust is to serve all the education community along the North Yorkshire Coast and down the Vale of Pickering. We are committed to supporting all schools in becoming great schools, whether they are part of Coast and Vale Learning Trust or not. The learners of our community deserve the best education, regardless of their background or location.

Choosing where to work and who to work for is one of the vitally important decisions in life. In choosing to work for Coast and Vale Learning Trust you would be joining a team of colleagues dedicated to transforming the lives of 3000 children and young people.

We have a simple vision in wanting our schools to be places ‘where children and staff thrive’. Coast and Vale Learning Trust will work tirelessly to make this a reality.

**Working For Us**

As well as being committed to your ongoing development and training, we also offer a range of employee benefits, including; a competitive salary, access to a government pension scheme, and an employee assistance programme, as well as a variety of retail discounts.

For any further information please contact Sarah Sweet Recruitment Assistant

We do not accept CVs.

Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy should we receive an overwhelming response. _
- Your privacy is important to us. By submitting your personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Trust’s “Privacy Notice Recruitment” which can be found on our website. _

POST: Cleaner

GRADE: Grade AB, SCP2

RESPONSIBLE TO: Cleaning Supervisor

STAFF MANAGED: None

**JOB PURPOSE**:
To provide a high quality, effective cleaning service to ensure a clean and hygienic environment for all building users.

**JOB CONTEXT**:
The caretaker and cleaning team as a whole are responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness throughout the school. The post is required to work with cleaning equipment and products which contain chemicals, but the necessary protective clothing will be provided Enhanced DBS check is required for this post due to working within a school environment

**ACCOUNTABILITIES / MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**

Operational Issues
- To carry out cleaning duties within allocated timescales and to take a flexible approach in order to meet the schools requirements.

Duties will include (but not exhaustive):

- General dusting of furniture, fixings and fittings
- Dust control mopping/sweeping of floors
- Vacuuming floors
- Cleaning and polishing floors using electrical buffing machine
- Damp/wet mopping of floors
- Polishing furniture, cleaning internal glass
- Cleaning of sanitary fittings
- To use cleaning materials as instructed
- Specialist cleaning (e.g. stripping & sealing of floors)
- Emptying of waste paper bins
- Wiping surfaces, fixtures and fittings & paintwork Communications
- Communicate effectively with other members of staff and pupils within the school.

Resource management
- To participate in the training and development and performance management processes within the school
- Store cleaning equipment and products safely and securely Safeguarding
- To be committed to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults, raising concerns as appro