Cleaner

Fountain Head House School has a fantastic new opportunity for a housekeeper to join the team. You will need to committed, hardworking and enthusiastic individual to be able to provide a professional housekeeping support to our school.

Fountain Head House School is a new and growing Independent Special day school based in Saltash in Cornwall. The school caters for pupils from 4 to 16 with a range of special educational needs. This position within the school will see you working as part of the housekeeping team. You will work closely with the housekeeping supervisor to ensure the cleanliness of the school.

You will be joining a team of three cleaners, and will have a designated area of the school to maintain, during the holidays deep cleaning takes place for example carpet cleaning, windows and skirting boards.

Main responsibilities: (please see job description for full details)

To be responsible for cleaning the school site as allocated by the Business Manager and following Health & Safety guidelines

Duties to include the following:

·               Vacuum cleaning hard and soft floors

·               Spot cleaning of spillages

·               Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass

·               Emptying and cleaning bins

·               Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds

·               Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces

·               Wiping and polishing and straightening furniture

·               Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc

·               Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work

·               Locking and alarming the premises

·               Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time

You will be joining a committed Independent Special Educational school who is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role as well as the Right to Work in the UK.

Fountain Head House School undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’.

All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please note we cannot accept a CV - application forms must be completed; to apply please download the following;