Cleaning Supervisor - The Grange School

The Grange is 'More Than Just a School'

We are a supportive team with community at the heart of everything we do. Passion, creativity and inspiring a love of learning are celebrated and embraced. Our relentless professional commitment to supporting and empowering students is both valued and rewarded.

Term time only: No

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3 FTE £27,310 to £29,295 depending on experience. Estimated actual salary (based on 52 weeks) £14,462 - £15,835 approximately.

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 20 hours per week

Interviews to be held: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About us

Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages.

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 support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.

Responsibilities

1. Daily operational supervision of the team of cleaning operatives.
2. Maintaining health and safety and risk assessment standards, reporting any failures.
3. Arranging work schedules, managing cover for absence of cleaning operatives.
4. Submitting cleaners’ weekly timesheets to the Finance/HR Office.
5. Monitoring cleaning duties, carrying out quality audits and monitoring performance.
6. Conducting performance appraisals of the team of cleaning operatives.
7. Taking part in the recruitment and selection process for new cleaning operatives.
8. Inducting and training new members of the cleaning team and providing toolbox talks.
9. Monitoring, managing and authorising annual leave of cleaning operatives.
10. Undertaking cleaning of allocated areas in line with specified standards and as directed.

About you

We are looking for a Cleaning Supervisor who will be 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.

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.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required. The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview.

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).