Housekeeper in Thetford

If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today! Aspris Norfolk are recruiting for a Housekeeper to join our support team across our two sites: Kingsbrook School - Southburgh and Sheridan School - Thetford.

We are looking for passionate people to make sure our site is safe and comfortable, whilst covering all aspects of housekeeping. You will be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness in the school and will have a flexible approach and be able to respond quickly to requests for assistance.

Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!

Sheridan School is a specialist therapeutic school in Norfolk, supporting children and young people with complex social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. We provide personalised education in a calm, nurturing environment helping each student grow in confidence, rediscover their love of learning, and realise their full potential. We support young people aged 7 to 16 with a range of SEMH needs, including autism, ADHD, PTSD and attachment disorders. Kingsbrook is a therapeutic day school, providing education to children and young people aged 11-18 years with social, emotional, mental health difficulties and complex learning needs.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

The successful candidate will have experience of daily cleaning schedules and ensure appropriate paperwork is completed and a good knowledge of health and safety legislation applicable to the role, along with the following characteristics:

• Communication: During your role your working environment may involve interacting with our young people we support that may display varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties.
• Organisation: As well as supervising the staff team, you’ll need to be confident and organised in record keeping, ensuring issues are logged on the internal computer systems and keeping up to date with routine maintenance checks.
• Attentive: No two jobs will be the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most. If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.