About The Role Please note that this is a fixed term position until 31st March 2025.
Hours per week: 20 hours
Location: Canterbury
Hourly rate: £12.00 per hour
Fixed term: Until 31st March 2025
Shift pattern: Sunday to Monday: 6pm - 10pm & Monday to Thursday: 9pm - 1am during term time only.
EKC Group are seeking a Housekeeper to join the Group at Canterbury College. As a Housekeeper at EKC Group you will clean the college's buildings and grounds. Previous experience of working within health and safety guidelines and procedures would be an advantage.
Benefits Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:
Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
If new to teaching, you will benefit from £7000 investment in your Teacher Training when you come straight from industry
Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
Generous pension scheme - 18% employer contribution
Being part of a company with an Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews
My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day
Please note that this vacancy requires the successful candidate to work 20 hours per week, 38 weeks during term time and the salary will be £9,120 pro rata per annum (based on a permanent position).
A holiday payment of £1,230 will be paid equally in your twelve monthly salary payments in addition to the pro rata salary above (based on a permanent position).
About You We are seeking to appoint a positive, proactive and efficient housekeeper to join us. You will be able to work in a team or individually and perform an array of cleaning tasks including using machinery and to ensure we maintain a safe and secure environment for our student, staff and visitors.
The successful candidate will preferably have previous experience of cleaning in a commercial environment or the ability to learn quickly and maintain high standards of cleanliness. You will also be able to work unsupervised and some technology/computer experience would be an advantage.
If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us on ****** .
About Us East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.
It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer . This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to health needs or disability.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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