Cleaner

Department - Corporate Services and Facilities

Salary - £25,999 Plus £1,600 Recruitment retention allowance

This role is available full-time for 37 hours per week

6am – 2pm Monday to Friday

Are you looking for a well-paid cleaning role with a great team and your afternoons free to balance your home life?

As a cleaner at HMGCC you’ll get exactly that and will be joining a positive, inclusive team who helps make this organisation work.

With your positive and friendly approach, you’ll provide a clean working environment to all employees and visitors using your time management skills to prioritise your tasks and complete the cleaning needed.

You’ll be given all the support you need not only from your manager but also the rest of the team. If you’re looking to study towards gaining qualifications, we can help with that as well.

You’ll be enabling the UK Government to produce reliable and totally secure communications to protect national security. It doesn’t get much more important than that.

More About You

To apply for this role, you will have:

• Some experience of cleaning duties, preferably in an office or workplace environment.
• Some experience of dealing with the public.
• Basic IT skills.
• The ability to start at 6am.

To strengthen your application, it would be beneficial if you also have:

• An awareness of Health & Safety and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations (training will be given to successful applicants).
• Ability to work independently and part of a team.

Your Personal Skills

You will be the type of person who:

• Treats security and health and safety as essential to the wellbeing of all.
• Works cooperatively with others to achieve goals.
• Shows flexibility in adapting to situations or requirements.
• Deals efficiently with customer requests, queries and problems, delivering the best possible service.
• Uses the most appropriate style and approach for the situation.
• Overcomes obstacles and sees tasks through to completion.
• Thinks through issues logically and finds appropriate solutions.

Putting your skills to use

Using your diverse range of skills within the cleaning team, you will:

• Undertake all aspects of cleaning in designated areas within the site, as per the cleaning schedule, to the required standard.
• Empty litter and recycling bins and remove the waste to the designated areas.
• Use powered equipment where necessary.
• Clear up after flooding or any other emergency cleaning within the nature of the job.
• Collect and distribute laundry, including white coats and tea towels.
• Report any items that need maintenance or repair.

What we Offer

Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will we be doing, here’s what we can offer you:

A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.

25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.

8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.

2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).

Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.

Paid overtime or time off in lieu. Your salary is for your contracted hours. If you work more, we believe you should be recognised for that.

Paid parental and adoption leave and neonatal policy.

Affinity groups – whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.

Training. Lots and lots of training. This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it’s relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.

Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.

Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.

Bike to work scheme.

Multi-faith Prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.

3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.

Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you. We offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on-site activities.

On site café and restaurant.

On site nursery (subject to availability).

Relocation Loan*.