School Cleaning Supervisor - The Grange School
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We are looking for a cleaning supervisor who will responsible for leading a team of cleaning operatives to ensure a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene is maintained throughout the school.
This role requires strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills to deliver a safe and healthy environment for pupils and staff.
Term time only: No
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: £14,896 to £16,310 depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 20 hours per week
Closing date: 25/04/2025 00:00
Interviews to be held: asap
About us
The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success. We provide an excellent induction programme and a wide range of development opportunities for all staff.
Website: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/
About the role
The duties include:
• Daily operational supervision of the team of cleaning operatives.
• Maintaining health and safety and risk assessment standards, reporting any failures
• Arranging work schedules, managing cover for absence of cleaning operatives.
• Submitting cleaners’ weekly time-sheets to the Finance/HR Office.
• Monitoring cleaning duties, carrying out quality audits and monitoring performance.
• Conducting performance appraisals of the team of cleaning operatives.
• Taking part in the recruitment and selection process for new cleaning operatives.
• Inducting and training new members of the cleaning team and providing toolbox talks
• Monitoring, managing and authorising annual leave of cleaning operatives
• Undertaking cleaning of allocated areas in line with specified standards and as directed.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
Qualifications & Experience
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• Relevant cleaning experience
• Experience of supervising a team of cleaners
• Experience of training a teams= of cleaners
Skills & Abilities
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as an effective team member
• Able to set high standards with a keen eye for detail
• Excellent and efficient cleaning skills.
• Good understanding of COSHH regulations
• Seek support and advice when necessary
Personal Qualities
• Have a calm, professional and respectful approach
• Self-motivated and shows initiative
• Enthusiastic with ability to inspire trust and confidence
• An excellent record of attendance and punctuality.
• Prioritise and manage own time effectively
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available on our website.
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel: 01296 390914
Email: [email protected]
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions 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 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
