Cleaner

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Working across Abbeygate Sixth Form College, University and Professional Development Centre and West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds
• 10hours per week,39weeks per year–Permanent
• Commencing September 2026
• Monday-Friday, 5pmto 7pm

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Salary

£12.71 per hour

We are looking for dedicated and experienced Cleaners to join our team and help maintain a safe, clean, and hygienic learning environment for students and staff. This role is essential in ensuring our sites meet high cleanliness and health standards.

You will be responsible for cleaning designated areas of the sites, following all relevant health and safety procedures. Your duties will include cleaning classrooms, offices, toilets, and communal areas, vacuuming and mopping floors, and responding promptly to spills when required. You will also be responsible for cleaning windows, replenishing supplies, and carrying out deep cleans as scheduled to ensure all areas of the school are kept to a high standard.

This position requires reliability, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all members of the school community.

What the school offers its staff

• Membership into Local Government Pension Scheme
• Family friendly policies and flexible working
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Free parking
• Canteen
• Company events
• Access to various memberships and discount schemes
• Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days
• Funded subject course development for your role
• Range of staff communities, including EDI and neurodiverse communities
• Career progression opportunities

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.