Vacancy Reference
JOB003181
Job Title
Cleaner
Job Start Date
24 March 2025
Salary Range
Grade 1 (£23,656) Pro rata. Actual Salary £9,392.03 per annum
Hours Per Week
15 plus 4 weeks
Working Pattern
Term time only
School Address
King Edward Vi Northfield School For Girls
Turves Green
Birmingham
B31 4BP
Telephone number: 0121 464 8346
Contact Email
s.killeen@nsg.kevibham.org
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
11 March 2025, 9:00am
Job Information

About the post

We are seeking to appoint an experienced cleaner to join our hardworking team. The post is for 15 hours per week term time only 3.30pm to 6.30pm (As part of the job 4 weeks of cleaning during school holidays is required (February half term 5 days, Easter Holidays 4 days August summer holidays 5 days and October half term 5 days). Must be flexible on working hours (during School holidays working hours are during the day - flexible)

About King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls

We are an ambitious and forward-thinking school and have been highly praised for our inclusive ethos and the attitudes and values of our pupils.

Strengths of the school include:

  • a superb new state of the art school building
  • excellent pastoral care and support
  • motivated, well behaved pupils
  • an ethos which values and develops all staff
  • access to excellent professional development both within the school and across the Academy Trust
  • supportive and committed staff who work as a team
  • strong and improving exam results
  • located in South Birmingham with excellent transport links by both road and rail

About the Academy Trust

The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.

The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham, established in 2017, currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non-selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.

Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.

The Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham is an educational charity supporting eleven schools and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

 

How to Apply

A job description and an application form can be found a on our website or can be obtained from: King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls, Turves Green, Northfield, Birmingham, B31 4BP / 0121 4648346 or email Miss S. Killeen: s.killeen@nsg.kevibham.org.

Safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Terms and Conditions
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.