Housekeeper / Cleaner

**About The Role**:
**We are seeking a Housekeeper at Canterbury College**for 20 hours a week with a pro-rata salary of £13,140 per annum.**

**The working hours for this role are**Sunday to Thursday 5pm - 9pm.**

EKC Group are seeking a Housekeeper to join the Group at our Canterbury College campus. As a Housekeeper at EKC Group you will clean the college’s buildings and grounds. Previous experience of working within health and safety guidelines and procedures would be an advantage.
Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group**:

- Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
- If new to teaching, you will benefit from £7000 investment in your Teacher Training when you come straight from industry
- Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
- Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
- Generous pension scheme - 18% employer contribution
- Being part of a company with a Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
- Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews
- My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
- Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day

**About You**:
We are seeking to appoint a positive, proactive and efficient housekeeper to join us. You will be able to work in a team or individually and perform an array of cleaning tasks including using machinery and to ensure we maintain a safe and secure environment for our student, staff and visitors.

You will preferably have previous experience of cleaning in a commercial environment or the ability to learn quickly and maintain high standards of cleanliness. You will also be able to work unsupervised and some technology/computer experience would be an advantage.

**About Us**:
**Outstanding Ofsted Provider**

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

**Commitment to Safeguarding**

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

**Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.