diff --git a/helm/blueapi/README.md b/helm/blueapi/README.md
index 3862290fb8..41ccb8827b 100644
--- a/helm/blueapi/README.md
+++ b/helm/blueapi/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ A Helm chart deploying a worker pod that runs Bluesky plans
 | serviceAccount.create | bool | `false` |  |
 | serviceAccount.name | string | `""` |  |
 | startupProbe | object | `{"failureThreshold":5,"httpGet":{"path":"/healthz","port":"http"},"periodSeconds":10}` | A more lenient livenessProbe to allow the service to start fully. This is automatically disabled when in debug mode. |
+| timeStampCron.enabled | bool | `true` |  |
 | tolerations | list | `[]` | May be required to run on specific nodes (e.g. the control machine) |
 | tracing | object | `{"fastapi":{"excludedURLs":"/healthz"},"otlp":{"enabled":false,"protocol":"http/protobuf","server":{"host":"http://opentelemetry-collector.tracing","port":4318}}}` | Exclude health probe requests from tracing by default to prevent spamming |
 | volumeMounts | list | `[{"mountPath":"/config","name":"worker-config","readOnly":true}]` | Additional volumeMounts on the output StatefulSet definition. Define how volumes are mounted to the container referenced by using the same name. |
diff --git a/helm/blueapi/files/scripts/time-stamper.sh b/helm/blueapi/files/scripts/time-stamper.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..027e879fd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helm/blueapi/files/scripts/time-stamper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Get PVCs belonging to this blueapi release
+ALL_PVC=$(kubectl get pvc -n  $RELEASE_NAMESPACE  \
+  -o jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.name}' | tr ' ' '\n' | \
+  grep "^$RELEASE_NAME-scratch-")
+# Get all PVCs currently mounted by running pods
+MOUNTED_PVCS=$(kubectl get pods -n  $RELEASE_NAMESPACE  \
+  -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].spec.volumes[*].persistentVolumeClaim.claimName}' | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u)
+NOW=$(date +%s)
+#loop through all the pvcs annotating ones thare are mounted or lack a last-used stamp
+for pvc in $ALL_PVC; do
+  # Checks if Annotation for last-used is empty
+  ANNOTATION=$(kubectl get pvc "$pvc" -n  $RELEASE_NAMESPACE  -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.annotations.last-used}')
+  # -z checks if ANNOTATION is empty, if its empty or mounted to updates last-used else it ignores it
+  if [ -z "$ANNOTATION" ]; then 
+    kubectl annotate --overwrite pvc "$pvc" -n  $RELEASE_NAMESPACE  last-used="$NOW"
+  elif echo "$MOUNTED_PVCS" | grep -qx "$pvc"; then
+    kubectl annotate --overwrite pvc "$pvc" -n  $RELEASE_NAMESPACE  last-used="$NOW"
+  fi
+done
diff --git a/helm/blueapi/values.schema.json b/helm/blueapi/values.schema.json
index 3159f6713e..5bd7d0735d 100644
--- a/helm/blueapi/values.schema.json
+++ b/helm/blueapi/values.schema.json
@@ -292,6 +292,14 @@
                 }
             }
         },
+        "timeStampCron": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "enabled": {
+                    "type": "boolean"
+                }
+            }
+        },
         "tolerations": {
             "description": "May be required to run on specific nodes (e.g. the control machine)",
             "type": "array"
diff --git a/helm/blueapi/values.yaml b/helm/blueapi/values.yaml
index 876b37a989..9634d08596 100644
--- a/helm/blueapi/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/blueapi/values.yaml
@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ initContainer:
     # -- Size of persistent volume
     size: "1Gi"
 
+timeStampCron:
+  enabled: true
+
 debug:
   # -- If enabled, runs debugpy, allowing port-forwarding to expose port 5678 or attached vscode instance
   enabled: false