Housekeeper
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | LN6 3QN |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | The Willows School Ltd |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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Title: House Keeping Assistant
Salary Scale: SPS1-3 (£23,907.00 - £24,863.00 FTE)
Hours/Basis: 15 hours a week - 39 + 3 weeks (hours to be discussed)
Location: The Willows School
Accountability Senior Leadership Team
School Business Manager
Purpose & Objective
Your key responsibilities will include:
As our School Cleaner, you will play a crucial part in supporting the students by keeping the classrooms, and communal area is 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
As a member of the school team, you will ensure school policies, processes and procedures are always followed, ensure high quality service delivery is always maintained and work effectively with all internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibility:
Support for pupils/students (either individually or in groups)
● Vacuum cleaning, sweeping, and mopping of floors
● Spot cleaning of spillages
● Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors, and polishing door glass
● Emptying and cleaning bins (daily)
● Cleaning toilets and showers including sanitary fittings and surrounds
● Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces
● Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing banister rails spindles and wood surrounds.
● Cleaning of internal windows
● Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily)
● Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit
● Ensuring areas are clean and tidy for the next day
● Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time
● To work throughout the service as required.
● Ensure all areas are cleaned and maintained in line with Health and Safety legislation.
● Ensure you comply with Health & Safety legislation and all practices and procedures are conducted in a way that meets the relevant requirements for the wellbeing of others.
● To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of performance management.
Support for the Wider School Community
• To work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a professional team
• To assist in the general efficient operation of the school, including ensuring the school is clean, tidy, and compliant with Health and Safety Standards
• To attend staff meetings, participate in appraisal arrangements and undertake training and development activities (as and when required)
• Review and develop own professional practice including online social media presence
• To maintain confidentiality at all times in respect of school-related matters and to prevent disclosure of confidential or sensitive information.
• Individuals have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people they are responsible for or comes into contact with
• To ensure their tasks are carried out with due regard to Health and Safety.
• To undertake and contribute to the risk assessment of the environment and activities, ensuring that pupils and staff are safe at all times.
• To maintain an up to date knowledge of school policies and working practices.
Training expectations:
• To make a commitment to your own professional development, undertaking training that is identified through appraisal and the school development plan
• To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of my appraisal.
• To undertake regular training and implement school policies and procedures including:
o Child Protection Training
o SEND Specific Training
o First Aid Training
o Health and Safety
o Fire Safety
o Risk Assessment
o COSHH
Safeguarding
• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school
• To report any safeguarding concerns to the DSL and/or DDSL and record on MyConcern.
House Keeping Assistants are required to follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.
Please note, this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the House Keeping Assistant will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Headteacher or line manager.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role is subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.
Salary Scale: SPS1-3 (£23,907.00 - £24,863.00 FTE)
Hours/Basis: 15 hours a week - 39 + 3 weeks (hours to be discussed)
Location: The Willows School
Accountability Senior Leadership Team
School Business Manager
Purpose & Objective
Your key responsibilities will include:
As our School Cleaner, you will play a crucial part in supporting the students by keeping the classrooms, and communal area is 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
As a member of the school team, you will ensure school policies, processes and procedures are always followed, ensure high quality service delivery is always maintained and work effectively with all internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibility:
Support for pupils/students (either individually or in groups)
● Vacuum cleaning, sweeping, and mopping of floors
● Spot cleaning of spillages
● Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors, and polishing door glass
● Emptying and cleaning bins (daily)
● Cleaning toilets and showers including sanitary fittings and surrounds
● Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces
● Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing banister rails spindles and wood surrounds.
● Cleaning of internal windows
● Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily)
● Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit
● Ensuring areas are clean and tidy for the next day
● Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time
● To work throughout the service as required.
● Ensure all areas are cleaned and maintained in line with Health and Safety legislation.
● Ensure you comply with Health & Safety legislation and all practices and procedures are conducted in a way that meets the relevant requirements for the wellbeing of others.
● To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of performance management.
Support for the Wider School Community
• To work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a professional team
• To assist in the general efficient operation of the school, including ensuring the school is clean, tidy, and compliant with Health and Safety Standards
• To attend staff meetings, participate in appraisal arrangements and undertake training and development activities (as and when required)
• Review and develop own professional practice including online social media presence
• To maintain confidentiality at all times in respect of school-related matters and to prevent disclosure of confidential or sensitive information.
• Individuals have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people they are responsible for or comes into contact with
• To ensure their tasks are carried out with due regard to Health and Safety.
• To undertake and contribute to the risk assessment of the environment and activities, ensuring that pupils and staff are safe at all times.
• To maintain an up to date knowledge of school policies and working practices.
Training expectations:
• To make a commitment to your own professional development, undertaking training that is identified through appraisal and the school development plan
• To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of my appraisal.
• To undertake regular training and implement school policies and procedures including:
o Child Protection Training
o SEND Specific Training
o First Aid Training
o Health and Safety
o Fire Safety
o Risk Assessment
o COSHH
Safeguarding
• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school
• To report any safeguarding concerns to the DSL and/or DDSL and record on MyConcern.
House Keeping Assistants are required to follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.
Please note, this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the House Keeping Assistant will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Headteacher or line manager.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role is subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.