Cleaner Brynrefail School

Person Specification

Personal attributes

• Essential: To be able to work as part of a team.

Qualifications and relevant training

• Essential: Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid.

Experience

• Essential: Experience of being employed as a cleaner.

Skills and specialist knowledge

• Essential: Good interpersonal skills.
• Essential: Good communication skills.

Language requirements

• Listening and speaking - Entry: Able to pronounce names of places and people correctly, follow instructions and understand simple conversations through Welsh and English on familiar matters, and respond to simple requests for information.
• Reading and understanding - Entry: Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, and convey them to someone else.
• Writing - Entry: Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Job Description

Purpose of the post

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
• To undertake, as part of a team, the cleaning of designated areas within the school premises to ensure they are kept clean and hygienic.

Responsibility for functions

• Equipment: Operate powered equipment when appropriate and use washing, sweeping, vacuum cleaning, polishing, dusting, and toilet cleaning equipment.
• Main duties: Empty litter and recycling bins; polish and dust designated areas including furniture and fixtures; replenish toilet paper and soap in toilets and shower areas.
• Responsibility for self development: Continuously improve hygiene practices and cleaning techniques.

Compliance and governance

• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council's equal opportunities and equality policies.
• Manage information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines and Data Protection legislation.
• Commit to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in line with the Carbon Management Plan.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty that corresponds to the salary and responsibility level of the job.
• Report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

• None.