Evening Cleaner (with Key-holder/locking-up Responsibilities)

Job Description

Heybridge Co-operative Academy is an 11-16 Academy for 115 young people most of whom have found it difficult to be successful in a mainstream School.

Due to the retirement of our caretaker, we are looking for an evening cleaner to join our site team to provide efficient and effective cleaning support to the Academy.

ThisScale 2 post will have the additional responsibility to act as key-holder, carrying out security procedures for the buildings and grounds at the end of each evening and will include the closing, securing and locking up of the Academy building.

The Evening shifts are:

Monday - Friday 16:00 - 18:30 (2.5 Hours per day/12.5 hours per week)

SCHOOL TERM TIME ONLY (39 working weeks per year/44.3 weeks paid for Holidays)

Pay:

Scale2 (pay award pending April 2020) Cleaner with Keyholder Responsibility

Full Time Equivalent Salary = £17,711 to £18,065per anum

Actual part time Salary (0.28 FTE) = £5,084 to £5,185per anum

Information about the School

Mid Essex Co-operative Academy is an 4 – 16 school for 135 young people most of whom have found it difficult to be successful in a mainstream school.

We are very proud of the provision we offer. Students are taught in small groups and they study the core curriculum at both Key Stage 3 and 4. In addition to the core curriculum, we provide rich and varied extended curriculum opportunities ranging from music therapy, targeted literacy intervention, horse riding to vocational courses and work experience placements. Small classes benefit students and enable them to make good progress as staff can ensure that learning is tailored to individual student needs.

At Key Stage 3, in partnership with local schools, we focus on supporting young people to return to a mainstream school. At Key Stage 4, we focus on providing the opportunity for students to gain 5 GCSEs to ensure a successful transition to post 16 education or training. Many of the young people who attend Mid Essex Co-operative Academy arrive here at a point of crisis or conflict in their lives. It is our aim to ensure that we help them to regain a sense of confidence and self-esteem which allows them to compete on equal terms with their peers, despite the disruption to their education caused by leaving mainstream school. We have an ongoing target that none of our Year 11 leavers are NEET (Not in education, employment or training) and we regularly maintain this excellent target.

The Primary unit for Key Stage 1 and 2 students is located in Witham. The school opened in January 2021. As with the secondary unit, this serves young people, most of whom have found it difficult to be successful in a mainstream school. We are very proud of the provision we offer. Students are taught in small groups and they study the core curriculum. In addition to the core curriculum, we provide rich and varied extended curriculum opportunities ranging from music therapy, targeted literacy intervention, horse riding to vocational courses and work experience placements. Small classes benefit students and enable them to make good progress as staff can ensure that learning is tailored to individual student needs.