Cleaner Bridport St Mary's Primary School

St Mary's CE Primary School (Bridport) is looking for a Cleaner to join our fantastic team. Could this be you?

Actual Salary £9,387 per annum per annum (Grade 1)

This job is Part Time for 15 hours per week and working 43 weeks per year.

It is offered on a Temporary basis until 31 August 2026.

Approximate start date : 9 December 2025

Closing date: 28 November 2025

Interview Date: 2 December 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic energetic person who has an eye for detail and is a conscientious cleaner who takes real pride in their work.

The position may involve the locking and alarming of the school when all the cleaning activities have been completed.

Working hours are 5.00pm to 8.00pm, Monday to Friday, which may be subject to change according to business needs.  The vacancy is term time including Inset Days and also you will be required to do deep cleans during the holidays, your total working weeks will be 43.

Please refer to the attached job description for more details about the role. 

If you have any further questions, please contact the recruiting manager Sarah Elliott on 01308 422846 or by emailing [email protected]

Please Note: the actual salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and paid annual leave entitlement for an employee with under 5 years' service.

Bridport St Mary's school values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide 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. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.