Warden

**Oldham Council**

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Corporate

Outdoor and Environmental Education Service

**Ref**:G3/OL-91632

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Salary**: £23,893 - £25,979 p.a.

**Hours**:36.66 per week

**Based**: Castleshaw Centre, Waterworks Road, Delph, Oldham, OL3 5LZ

**Closing date**: Sunday 21st April 2024

**Shortlisting**: week commencing 22nd April 2024

**Interview Dates**: week commencing 29th April 2024

Job Description and Person Specification.docx

**Role overview**

Responsible to the Service Manager for providing a flexible housekeeping service at the Castleshaw Centre, in order to ensure efficient service delivery to Schools, the Youth Service, and other customers.

**Key responsibilities**
- Organise the safe and efficient running of the Castleshaw Centre building and grounds with support and supervision from the service manager.
- Carry out cleaning assignments in the centre, ensuring that the building is kept clean, tidy and safe for our customers, and supervise any casual staff assisting with domestic tasks.
- Undertake porterage and light maintenance duties as required. Pro-actively monitor and report building and grounds maintenance issues that cannot be handled in house.
- Undertake other housekeeping duties as required for residential and day visit groups, including the planning of good quality nutritious meal menus, purchasing food, preparing and serving meals, washing up and ensuring that adequate stocks of clean linen are available by delivering to and collecting from the laundry.
- Arrange for both routine and non-routine opening and closing of the centre and grounds and attend the site outside of normal working hours in emergencies, liaising with the emergency services as required.
- To be an identified key holder for the centre’s buildings and grounds.

**Key Requirements**

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

- The ability to plan and cook a range of well balanced, nutritious, good quality, meals for visiting groups.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

**About Us**

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses. Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

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**salary from**

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£23,893

**contract**

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permanent

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full time

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