Location: Civic Centre, Leyland.
Contract: Part Time (15 hours per week) / Permanent
Salary: £10,418 - £10,586
About the job:
To carry out cleaning duties throughout the Civic Centre, ensuring all areas are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation. Duties include vacuuming, dusting, polishing, cleaning washrooms and kitchens, and undertaking other cleaning tasks as required.
What you will be getting up to
- Carry out cleaning duties throughout the Civic Centre in accordance with agreed schedules, frequencies, and standards.
- Maintain the cleanliness and tidiness of internal areas, ensuring they are free from litter, debris, and hazards.
- Vacuum, dust, polish, and clean floors, furniture, kitchens, washrooms, and other designated areas to a high standard.
- Ensure washrooms are fully stocked with consumables and report any shortages promptly.
- Respond positively and professionally to customer and building user requirements where appropriate.
- Report any maintenance issues, defects, safety hazards, or unsafe working practices to the Facilities Officers.
- Follow all relevant health and safety procedures, including the safe use of cleaning equipment and materials.
Skills required for the role
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexible attitude to work
- Work positively across teams
- Ability to plan and organise
- Ability to think on your feet to resolve issues.
Our Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown) pro rata
- Local Government pension
- Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
- Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
- Volunteering days
- Free parking
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
