Overview and Responsibilities
School Cleaner – Aurora Wilden View
Location: Torton, Kidderminster
Salary: £11, £12, FTE £26, £28,038.40)
Hours: 20 hours a week (Mon-Fri 2pm to 6pm) – Term time only
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.
About Aurora Wilden View
Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View
Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.
The role:
As our School Cleaner, you will play a crucial part in supporting the students by keeping the classrooms, and communal area's clean and ensuring that students are learning in a hygienic and safe environment.
You will be required to work in all types of rooms within the school, including offices, classrooms, kitchen, showers, halls, corridors and toilets. Ensuring that areas are cleaned to the highest standards at all times and equipment is stored correctly
Key Duties
Duties to include (but not limited to)the following:
* Vacuum cleaning floors
* Spot cleaning of spillages
* Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass
* Emptying and cleaning bins (daily)
* Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds
* Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces
* Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing bannister rails spindles and wood surrounds.
* Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily)
* Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit
* Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time
Please see the link below for our full job description:
Job Description: School Cleaner
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
* Experience of cleaning within a school and/or special needs environment – desirable but not essential
* Ability to work well in a team and on own initiative
* Demonstratable attention to detail and pride in work
* Ability to recognise the need for confidentiality
* Understanding of principles of Health and Safety
* COSHH – safe use of chemical (training will be provided)
* First Aid Certificate – desirable but not essential
Benefits and Additional Information
What's on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
* Full training and continued support
* Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us
* Perkbox subscription
* Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme
* Car lease scheme
* Bike to work scheme
* Free parking
* Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Apply/Enquiries
If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact
Applications to be made via our online application form
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.