Centre Assistant

3 weeks ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

**Terms & Conditions: 3 Permanent positions available.**

**These are at 16, 18.5 and 30 hours per week.**

**Department: Early Years**

**Interviews: TBC**

We are looking to recruit Centre Assistants, who are enthusiastic and self-motivated to join our team working across our network of 8 Children Centres.

Working hours will be over 5 days, working a rota basis with colleagues doing earlier or late shifts, therefore applicants need to be able to work flexibly between 8 am and 6 pm.

We are looking for people who can demonstrate experience of working in a cleaning role.

Applicants will need to ensure that a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene are maintained throughout our centres.

Ensuring that all areas of the centre are prepared for relevant use, which would include; cleaning and preparing our nursery settings, clean and tidying office facilities, setting up meeting rooms; cleaning the community café.

Applicants would need to complete a range of duties including; washing of walls, windows, partitions and woodwork and all hard and soft floor surfaces. It would also include the cleaning of all surfaces, fixtures and fittings, bathrooms - all by appropriate methods within the designated area of work.

The role includes undertaking some laundry duties.

This role also includes supporting with the Community Café catering facility. Ensuring that catering requirements are met e.g. children’s meals and meeting refreshments.

Health and Safety and COSHH knowledge is desirable for this role.

We are looking for positive, reliable and flexible people with good communication skills, who can work as a member of a team and also independently to complete tasks.

**So why join us?**

In Blackburn with Darwen we have realised the world of work as we used to see it, in its more traditional way pre-pandemic has moved on and we want to keep pace.

It's not about what we want and expect from you as an employee, but rather what can we, as an organisation do to support you to be the best you can be in your role for our borough’s residents.

**What we offer You**

**Trust;** We know that trust is built with consistency, we are working really hard to ensure full consistency across all service areas.
We know our staff work incredibly hard, and at times above and beyond for their teams and colleagues. For this we place much trust in our staff with flexible and agile working.

**Respect;** We are really proud of the culture we have in BWD in that no matter who you are we will always listen to ideas and welcome respectful challenge.
We have no blame culture but rather than that of a well-supported learning culture.

**Ambition;** We want all our employees to be able to progress and have ambition in their role. We want to develop and progress our own workforce and allow you fair and equal career pathways and progression opportunities.

**Collaboration;** We have a huge variety of teams at the council with different skills and experience. By being interconnected we can ensure our work is the best it can be, utilising these resources spread across the organisation.

**Kindness;** We firmly believe that kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle from time to time. This is equally true for some of our workforces that's why we have a well-embedded wellbeing offer.

Other benefits:
- Travel / small Borough.
Holidays.

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02667

Date posted
- 02/02/2024

Application closing date
- 27/02/2024

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade C, SCP 03 - 05, £22,737 - £23,500 Per annum, Pro rota

Package
- Blank

Contractual hours
- 18.5

Basis
- Part time

Job category/type
- Blank


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