Cleaning Manager

Role: Cleaning Manager

Base: Connect Academy Trust

Hours: 37 hours per week, 41 weeks per year

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Grade E Point 9. Actual salary £28,033 (FTE £31,015)

Start Date: As soon as possible

Connect Academy Trust is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Cleaning Manager to join their team. Based across all nine schools within the Trust, this role will be responsible for overseeing cleaning operations and maintaining high standards of cleanliness throughout the Trust.

Key responsibilities will include:

· Line managing cleaning teams

· Monitoring cleaning standards

· Conducting quality inspections

· Coordinating staffing and rotas

· Managing cleaning stock and consumables

· Delivering training and induction

· Supporting school presentation standards

· Maintaining cleaning compliance standards

Connect is a family of 9 large, successful, and happy primary schools. The Trust now educates over 3500 children with 550 staff, in Plymouth, Torbay and Newton Abbot. Connect formed in 2016 as a values-based Multi Academy Trust of 5 schools in Plymouth. Since then, we have worked closely to support a number of schools and Trusts in the South-West and our family has grown to 9 like-minded schools. We rebranded in 2022 and developed our 4 Anchors: Empowering, Principled, Nurturing and Trail-blazing. Connect is an inclusive Trust and 3 of our schools have specialist support centres, for deaf children, those with an ASC diagnosis and for those with a developmental language disorder.

We can offer you:

· A highly supportive school and Trust invested in your growth and professional development.

· A Trust culture that promotes diversity, equality and social justice.

· A supportive approach for all staff and an innovative approach to appraisal.

· An opportunity to be part of a forward focussed and growing Trust, author of the UK’s first ocean conservation curriculum with European Blue Schools and national winner of the Community Impact of the year Trust award 2023

· Comprehensive induction and wide-ranging opportunities for professional development.

To apply please visit:

https://ce0218li.webitrent.com/ce0218li\_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=838654ApYP

Closing Date: Monday 2nd November 2026 at 9am

Interview Date: Monday 9th November 2026

Connect is fully committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children.

Pay: £28,033.00 per year

Work Location: In person