Housekeeper

We are looking for a number of housekeepers to join our successful facilities team. Collegiate is a thriving co-educational day school for pupils aged 3 to 18, located in Stapleton, Bristol. The School occupies a glorious thirty-acre campus and has all of its facilities on-site.

The hourly rate is £11.50 per hour. Other benefits include uniform, free parking on site, a defined contribution pension scheme and 6.6 weeks paid holiday including bank/public holidays each year, on a pro-rata basis for part-time hours.

The hours for this role are 4am to 8am, Monday to Friday during term time plus some additional days in the school holidays.

What you'll be doing:

• General cleaning and housekeeping of all areas of the school, including any spills, allocated communal areas and bathrooms
• Sweeping, vacuuming, dusting and mopping of floors, corridors and rooms
• Working independently in an allocated area and as part of a team of housekeepers
• Maintaining the highest level of cleanliness throughout the school on a daily basis
• Ensuring cleaning materials are safely stored
• Assisting with the laundry
• Stocking of the linen cupboards
• Ensuring health and safety issues are reported

What you'll need to be:

• Polite, professional and friendly
• Reliable, punctual and trustworthy
• Discreet, tactful and able to observe professional standards
• Physical fitness to meet demands of the role

If you are interested in this position and would like to email with an expression of interest please click on the 'apply' button and you will be redirected to the School's website with contact details.

We reserve the right to invite candidates for interview prior to the closing date where we have sufficient suitable applications. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to submit an application as soon as possible.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a full application form as part of safer recruitment checks.

We aim to truly represent all sections of society and applications are welcomed for all suitably qualified candidates.

Collegiate is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:

• To promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young persons for whom they are responsible or come into contact with;
• To be supportive of and committed to the School’s policies on Child Protection;

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.