Days of Working: Monday - Thursday 16.00pm - 22.00pm, Friday 12.30pm - 18.30pm
Main Purpose:
To maintain the school premises to a high standard of cleanliness; required to clean all rooms, including classrooms, offices, toilets, cloakrooms, staircases, and all other areas in use.
The position is a term time post. You will be required to participate in the annual deep clean of the school for 2 weeks during the summer holidays.
Key Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for cleaning areas of the school site as allocated by the cleaning supervisor.
- To use cleaning materials as instructed by the cleaning supervisor.
- To operate cleaning machinery in cleaning soft and hard surfaces, e.g. vacuum cleaners and polishers.
- To maintain confidentiality in respect of school-related matters and to prevent disclosure of confidential and sensitive information.
- Vacuum cleaning hard and soft floors.
- Spot cleaning of spillages.
- Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass and windows.
- Emptying and cleaning waste and recycling bins.
- Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds.
- Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces.
- Wiping and polishing and straightening furniture.
- Replenishing supplies in toilets and classrooms, etc.
- Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work, locking doors when rooms are completed.
- Reporting of misuse or vandalism.
- During holiday periods when the school is closed, or annual deep cleans routine cleaning is undertaken throughout the school. This may include, removing chewing gum from floors, under desks, etc., high level dusting, wall washing, and moving furniture to deep clean classrooms, etc.
- Undertake any additional cleaning duties as directed, by the Cleaning Supervisor or Soft Services Manager.
- All defects/hazards must be immediately reported to the Cleaning Supervisor.
- To ensure that all Health & Safety procedures are followed, in accordance with company policies
Skills & Knowledge:
- BICSc certification, or equivalent to an appropriate level, or be able to obtain after training.
- A track record of delivering a similar role.
- Experience in a cleaning environment, preferably multi-site.