Senior Cleaner

**Job Description**:
We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council, which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Senior Cleaner in School Traded Services
Our Senior Cleaners provide an essential service to schools and other council buildings throughout the borough, ensuring working areas are a safe environment for themselves, staff, pupils, and the public.
You will be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness throughout the school, creating a positive environment for pupils to learn in, and for teachers to teach in.
Duties will consist of supervision of a small team to include arranging staff cover for any periods of absence, ordering of stock and management of time sheets & weekly monitoring reports. You will also arrange for any on-site training and any refresher training as and when required.

Areas that require cleaning include classrooms, offices, corridors, halls and toilets with periodic work undertaken during school holidays.
St Helens Borough Council is proud of the cleaning service that it provides, and you too can be part of this positive, effective, hardworking team ensuring consistently high standards of cleaning are met, with the possibility of further training in the future to assist career development.
Our teams work in accordance with health & safety policy and procedures to ensure safe working practices are always upheld in their roles.
You must be comfortable and confident in being able to communicate with managers, colleagues, and members of the public as necessary in accordance with council policy.
Full training and understanding of Council policy will be administered to all those who start in this role.
This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Interested to Find Out More?
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Equality & Diversity

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.