Cleaner Caretaker

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ4664

Date posted

13/01/2025

Application closing date

20/01/2025

Location

DOCK (Leicester Innovation Workshop)

Salary

£9,848 - £10,532 per year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) £14,361

Contractual hours

15

Basis

Part time

Job category/type

City Services

Attachments

Job Specification - 2024-10-14T184055.703.pdf

**Cleaner Caretaker**:
Job description

Part Time / 15 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Play a key role in maintaining excellent building standards for our tenants.

This is a great opportunity to join our team as a Cleaner/Caretaker and provide cleaning, security, repairs, and maintenance services at DOCK 3-5.

DOCK 3-5 is an exciting new development in space city Leicester, which opened in September 2024. There are a combination of offices, light industrial units, and meeting rooms. Our tenants who are based here are in the professional services sector.

Working under the guidance of the Operations Manager, you’ll maintain standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and the overall presentation of the building and external area. This will include repairing and maintaining fixtures and fittings to approved standards.

You’ll be based at DOCK 3-5 however you may be required occasionally to work at other sites. Your working hours will be 8am and 11am Monday to Friday, although you may occasionally be required to work different hours to this or over a weekend or in the evening.

**What you’ll be doing**

You’ll be responsible for fire and water testing and accompanying contractors around our building. Whilst monitoring the condition of the building, a proportion of your time will be undertaking minor repairs such as changing light bulbs, basic plumbing, and painting. Acting as a keyholder, you’ll maintain the safety and security of premises, materials, and equipment. As part of your day to day duties, you’ll clean communal areas including corridors, toilets and kitchens, cleaning customers offices and maintain outside areas.

**What you’ll need**

You’ll have experience of building cleaning to a high standard and an awareness of health and safety, COSHH and the safety requirements of buildings. With some experience of completing basic maintenance, whether at home or at work, you’ll be able to effectively carry out repairs to the building and external areas. You’ll have a good level of communication skills with the ability to follow instructions to carry out duties efficiently whilst maintaining a professional relationship with tenants, contractors, and visitors. With the ability to physically lift/carry furniture and equivalent items you’ll be required to set out furniture for meetings.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

**Join us**

**Interviews/assessments will take place 13th of November 2024