The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Cleaner at Discovery Academy, Porlock Avenue, Hattersley. SK14 3LE.
To start: September 2025
Cleaner Full-time Salary £23,656
This is a permanent contract, part-time, 10 hours per week, term-time only plus 4weeks, with an actual salary of £6,203 (Grade A Scale 2)
The hours associated with this cleaner role therefore include:
• Weekdays - 3.30pm – 5:30pm 10 hours per week.
Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our Academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.
Discovery Academy is a mainstream Primary school in Hattersley. Our values of Discovering, Inspiring, Caring, Improving and Achieving run through everything we do.
The purpose of a cleaner is to undertake cleaning duties under the supervision of Site Manager / Caretaker within the premises to ensure high standards of premise care in accordance with cleaning specifications and current Health and Safety Legislation.
You will take part in maintaining the cleaning of a designated area of the Academy.
You will:
• Be responsible for cleaning certain parts of the Academy site as allocated by the Site Manager / Caretaker (this may vary from time to time).
• Use cleaning materials as instructed by the Site Manager / Caretaker.
• Operate cleaning machinery in cleaning soft and hard surfaces e.g., vacuum cleaners and polishers.
• Understand and follow cleaning schedules and instructions.
• Carry out a variety of cleaning duties.
2. You will maintain Health and Safety procedures at all times. You will:
• Ensure security of the building, e.g., check windows and doors are closed/locked.
• Report any faults to electrical cleaning equipment, do not use until fault is repaired.
• Ensure correct policy and procedures are maintained, including Health and Safety COSHH, Manual Handling etc.
• Only use authorised cleaning materials, ensure the correct dilution rates as directed and used for the purpose indicated.
• Ensure all PPE issued is worn at all times, including tabards and rubber gloves.
• Display wet floor signs when cleaning floors.
3. You will be an effective part of the Academy team. You will:
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Participate in training sessions as required.
For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.
The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:
• Applications close at 09:00 Friday 4th July 2025
• Observation will take place w/c Monday 7th July 2025
• Interviews will take place on Monday 14th July 2025
Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk
and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The
role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to
Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.
All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.
All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Discovery Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
