Cleaner/Caretaker - Furze Down School

Location: Buckingham

Overview

We are seeking to appoint a Cleaner/Caretaker to join our school premises team at our Buckingham site.

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: 1B 10 £12.56 per hour

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 3.00pm-6.00pm

Closing date: 25/10/2024 12:00

Interviews to be held: To be advised - We reserve the right to close the advert sooner if we have filled the position

About us

At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure

Website: https://www.fds.org.uk/

About the role

Main responsibilities will include:
• Full Health & Safety checking routine during lock up
• Being a key holder for the building and lock up in the evening
• To undertake some routine cleaning

Please see Job Description attached.

About you

Please see Person Specificaton attached 

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.

Tel No: 01296 711380
Email: [email protected] 

Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
We a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.

This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.

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 and 2023).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).