Domestic Assistant Job Eastbourne area,England UK,Maintenance/Cleaning

Overview

Eastbourne College is looking to recruit a Domestic Assistant to clean all designated areas to the required standards.

Job Title: Domestic Assistant

Responsible to: Cleaning Supervisor

Responsibilities

Code of Conduct

Maintaining good time keeping hours including relief times for breaks as dictated by employment contract.
Referring any personnel issues relating to the working environment initially to the Cleaning Supervisor.
Ensuring that issued attire is worn and kept in a clean and presentable standard.
Complying with College Health & Safety Policy.

Cleanliness

Ensuring a high standard of cleanliness across all areas of responsibility as tasked by the Cleaning Supervisor. These areas could include but are not limited to changing rooms, pupils bedrooms, toilets, washrooms, showers, common rooms, communal corridors, waste disposal.
Duties to include vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, dusting, sanitizing as required using equipment provided such as backpack vacuums, scrubber dryers & carpet cleaners.
Complying with College Personal Protective Clothing/Equipment Policy.
Compliance with the safe use of chemicals policy and COSHH requirements, this includes the use of warning signs (i.e. wet floor etc).
Ensuring full support to the Facilities team for the delivery of the cleaning service to the Summer Letting programme.

Fire & Evacuation

First Aid

Security

Maintaining a vigilant approach to potential breaches of security such as unlocked buildings, insecure equipment, open doors and windows and intruders on site and reporting any concerns to the Cleaning Supervisor or Soft Services Manager.
Ensuring that keys when not in use are returned to the secure location in which they are kept.

Other Duties

Perform other such duties within the scope of this position, as may be determined by the Cleaning Supervisor or Soft Services Manager.
Ensure that any faults or required repairs are reported to the Cleaning Supervisor as soon as possible or in their absence the Soft Services Manager or maintenance department directly.

Safeguarding Duties

The post holder’s responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom they are responsible, or with whom they come into contact will be to adhere to and ensure compliance with the School’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Statement and staff code of conduct at all times.
The post holder will be engaging in regulated activity. There are particular safeguarding issues requiring attention for this post.
This role may require the postholder to be aware of protecting the physical safety of pupils and at times be in a setting that requires them to respect the privacy of pupils. They may be the responsible adult in a scenario and must be aware of all relevant procedures in that setting.
If in the course of carrying out the duties of the post the post holder becomes aware of any actual or potential risks to the safety or welfare of children in the School they must report any concerns to the School’s Designated Safeguarding Lead or, if they are the School’s DSL, to the Headmaster and relevant agencies.

Person Specification

Essential

Experience of working in a commercial cleaning environment.
Physically fit with the stamina to carry out the role over a wide estate.
Work as part of a team.
Liaise effectively with all staff.
Work without day-to-day supervision on your own initiative.
Work to demanding and often very tight schedules.
Be flexible in the duties undertaken and to work within all reasonable requests.
Willingness to undertake training programmes as required for the job, e.g. COSHH, risk awareness, manual handling.
Be willing to undertake Health & Safety Regulations training (provided by the College).

Desirable

Terms and Conditions

Salary: £12.71 per hour wef April 2026

Hours of Work: 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm, all year round.

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