Cleaner

**Ref: SCH-TDA-0099**
21 day(s) remaining

**Establishment**: The Deaf Academy

**Location**: Exmouth, Devon

**Salary**: 24,145 FTE (12,088.22 actual / £12.51ph)

**Department**: Finance & Resources

**Job Type**: Part Time

**Closing Date**: 20/08/2025 23:59

**Interview Date**: 28/08/2025

**Additional Information**

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Contract Term**:TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks

**Hours per Week**:20.00

**Weeks per Year**:40.800

**Pay Grade**:TDA Pay scale | TDA11 - TDA11

**The Role**

**Cleaner (Morning Shift)**:
**20 hours per week (09:00-13:00 Monday to Friday)**:
**40.8 working weeks (term time plus 9 days outside term)**:
**Actual salary £12,088 per annum (based on £24,145 full time equivalent, £12.51 ph)**:
**Come and join our Cleaning Team, based at our**award winning campus** in Exmouth. Our site plays an important role in preparing our students for a happy, healthy and fulfilling future whilst enabling students to get involved and socialise in the community.**

Are you looking for work enabling you to fit around childcare or other roles, securing an income in the mornings. This role has a stable weekday evening schedule from 9am until 1pm and a term time focus with the majority of the work carried out outside school time. Our cleaning team are warm and welcoming and dedicated to keeping our spaces clean and safe for our students and staff. If you are looking for a primary or additional role with no late nights or early mornings, please do apply.

Key responsibilities:

- To clean allocated areas of the Academy site following Health & Safety guidelines.
- To safely use chemicals and cleaning materials as instructed by the Cleaning Supervisor following Health and Safety guidelines and the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Vacuum cleaning hard and soft floors.
- Spot cleaning of spillages and other reactive cleaning issues that may arise in line with the day to day operation of the Academy.
- Wiping furniture, skirting’s, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass.
- Emptying and cleaning bins (including taking to the external bin area).
- Cleaning windows at a low level.
- Cleaning toilets, changing rooms and bathrooms including sanitary fittings.
- Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces.

Key requirements:

- The ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
- Ability to communicate and follow instruction.
- High standards of cleanliness.
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise work.
- Positive outlook and good sense of humour.

We will offer:

- A CPD program geared to your specific training needs.
- Group Personal Pension including 8% employer contribution.
- Access to a Life Assurance scheme.
- On-site parking.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Sponsorship to achieve qualifications in British Sign Language up to Level 3.

**Skills**

**Experience/Knowledge**
- Ability to work in a safe manner

Essential
- Knowledge of COSHH and general Health and Safety including manual handling and working at height

Essential

**Personal Attributes**
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise work

Essential
- Ability to communicate and follow instruction

Essential
- Must have high standards of cleanliness

Essential
- Ability to multi-task

Essential

**Organisational Fit**
- A commitment to train, develop and update skills including BSL, to maintain a high standard of support for deaf pupils.

Essential

**Experience**
- Previous experience

Desirable

**Safeguarding Information**
- The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young adults; as such an enhanced DBS check is required._
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020)._
- The Academy is a Disability Committed Employer_ _in promoting diversity and inclusion for all its students and staff. The Academy is also signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant in supporting ex-service personnel in recognising their skills and experience._