Supervisory Cleaner Caretaker - Ysgol Cefn Coch

Supervisory Cleaner Caretaker - Ysgol Cefn Coch

Salary: GBP 15,058.92 per year

Closing date: 10:00 AM, 06/06/2026

Personal attributes

• Essential: (none)
• Desirable:
  To be able to work as part of a team

Qualifications and relevant training

• Essential: (none)
• Desirable:
  • Training in cleaning methods
  • Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid

Relevant experience

• Essential: (none)
• Desirable:
  • Experience of supervising staff
  • Experience of being employed as a cleaner

Skills and specialist knowledge

• Essential: (none)
• Desirable:
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Good communication skills

Language requirements

• Listening and Speaking – Entry:
  Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly; able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of 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, in order to convey them to someone else.
• Writing – Entry:
  Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Purpose of the post

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

Responsibility for functions

• Staff
• Equipment
• Building

Main duties – General

• In conjunction with the School Catering and Cleaning Team Leader to be responsible for ordering of cleaning materials as and when required.
• Cleaning of a specific area of the site and security of the premises at the end of the cleaning period.
• Supervise cleaning staff on site, including certifying job sheets.

Main duties – Daily Tasks

• Confirming day‑to‑day requirements of health and safety affecting staff and any other persons that visit or use the site.
• Ensure that all cleaning staff follow good working practices in keeping with any Statutory Provisions and Gwynedd Council Policies.
• Supervising cleaning staff on the site, allocating duties and working arrangements, training and countersign timesheets.
• Ensure that all members of the cleaning team have received induction training, health and safety training before starting work.
• Responsible for ensuring that appointment packs including application forms, right‑to‑work checks and DBS forms have been completed and returned to the Authority.
• Responsible for managing staff absences by completing sickness absence recording form SA1 and return‐to‑work interview form SA2.
• Unlock all gates and disable the alarm; unlock entrance doors and all classroom doors half an hour before the morning opening of the establishment as required by the Headteacher.
• During heating periods as specified by the Headteacher, ensure that the heating system is operating at the required level so the required temperature is achieved by opening time.
• When the heating system is operated by an automatic timing mechanism, ensure it is operating as required before opening of the establishment.
• Report to the Headteacher any fault or irregularities observed in individual heaters or in the general heating system.
• Cleaning and clearing of all outside covered areas, porches and hard‑paved areas of potentially dangerous or unsightly litter (e.g. empty cans, broken glass or bottles) before children arrive at the premises.
• Purchase and distribute paper towels, toilet rolls and liquid hand soap throughout the establishment as required.
• Report to the Headteacher any damage found to school property, defects in fittings or bad‑smelling drains which cannot be attended to.
• At the close of the establishment, ensure that all lights are switched off and heaters/central heating systems are set at the correct stand‑by setting as demanded by prevailing weather conditions.
• Ensure that heaters, etc. are free of combustible materials.
• Close and secure main gates as appropriate at the end of the school day.

Main duties – Periodic Tasks

• Maintain drain traps and…