Cleaner (Ark Blacklands Primary Academy)

Salary: Grade 1 Point 2 23723 pro rata (Actual Salary 8502)
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time term-time only

Closing date: 02 December 2025 at midnight
Interview date: 08 December 2025

How to apply: Please select the role you are applying for on Explore our vacancies Ark Blacklands and submit your application by the deadline.

Who to contact if you have a query: Interested in this exciting opportunity We warmly encourage you to visit to meet the team and the children. Please contact contact Mrs Hulls on or email to arrange a visit to the school or informal chat.

Ark Blacklands Primary Academy

Cleaner

Location: Hastings

Hours: 15 hours per week 2:15pm-5:15pm term-time with some additional hours during the school holidays

Start date: December 2025/January 2026

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated Cleaner on a part-time permanent basis. This role will involve taking responsibility for ensuring that the academy is kept clean tidy and sanitised in order to maintain an excellent school environment for staff and pupils. The successful candidate will ensure that their work is carried out to the highest possible standard monitoring and reporting on the condition of each area on a daily basis.

The successful candidate will:

• have experience of cleaning (preferably in a school)

• be hard working and adaptable to change

• have good interpersonal skills

• have an enthusiasm for and an active interest in childrens welfare

• be able to use their initiative

View the full job description and person specification here - Cleaner JDPS.

About our school:

Together we achieve!

There are 630 very good reasons to join our school!

Ark Blacklands Primary Academy is a large 3-form entry primary school with a new intake each year of 3 forms with 90 pupils in each year group from reception through to year 6. Our staff make a tremendous effort to get to know each pupil and provide them with the very best care.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly caring team of professionals who are committed to providing the very best for every child in our school and we will offer you plenty of opportunities for professional development with the very best training and support at every stage of your career.

Find out more by visiting offer:

• Comprehensive CPD we offer twice as many training days as standard.

• Access to health packages discounts at major retailers travel loans and other benefits through the Ark Rewards scheme.

• Opportunity to apply for international exchanges and other scholarship prospects

Find out more about the benefits by visiting is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its order to meet this responsibility its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required before appointment to disclose any unspent conviction cautions reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Arks safer recruitment process please click this link.