Cleaner

Hygiene Operative required at **Osbaston Church in Wales School** Osbaston Road Osbaston Monmouth NP25 3AX - Monday to Friday 4:00pm - 6:00pm.

**Our Purpose:

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To provide a professional cleaning services for libraries, museums, administrative buildings, public conveniences and schools within the county of Monmouthshire.

**The Purpose of this Role:

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To ensure that the building is maintained to a high level of hygiene and cleanliness.

**Expectation and Outcomes of this Role:

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To ensure the maintenance of a hygienic, functional environment that facilitates the effective conduct of Council Business.

**Your responsibilities are to:

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- To complete cleaning tasks of washing floors and walls, sweeping, empting litter bins, polishing and dusting.
- To undertake the cleaning of sanitary areas.
- To safely operate vacuum cleaners and polishing/scrubbing machines.
- To ensure that adequate stock of cleaning materials are maintained.
- To report all faults of cleaning equipment to the supervisor.
- To ensure the correct use of chemicals at all times.
- To work as a member of Monmouthshire’s Facilities Unit at any site.
- To undertake any necessary training for the post.
- To observe any requirements outlined by the Monmouthshire Facilities Unit Quality Procedural Manual in relation to quality standards.
- To observe Health and Safety regulations, as laid down by the authority to ensure the safety of themselves and others.
- To abide by the principals and practice of equal opportunity as laid down in the Councils Equal Opportunities Policy

**Here’s what we can provide you with:

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- A great rate of pay
- Working Term Time only
- A Local Government Pension
- Training
- Teamwork

**What else you need to know..Monmouthshire Values are**:
Openness: We aspire to be open and honest to develop trusting relationships.

Fairness: We aspire to provide fair choice, opportunities and experiences and become an organisation built on mutual respect.

Flexibility: We aspire to be flexible in our thinking and action to become an effective and efficient organisation.

Teamwork: We aspire to work together to share our successes and failures by building on our strengths and supporting one another to achieve our goals.

Kindness: We will show kindness to all those we work with, putting the importance of relationships and the connections we have with one another at the heart of all interactions.

And this role, will work with Monmouthshire to achieve these.

**In addition**:
All employees are responsible for ensuring that they act at all times in a way that is consistent with Monmouthshire’s Equal Opportunities Policy in their own area of responsibility and in their general conduct.

The authority operates a Smoke Free Workplace Policy which all employees are required to abide to.

**Person Specification**
- Previous cleaning/ hygiene experience.
- The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently.
- Flexibility and versatility in order to work under pressure and meet the required standards.
- The ability to work as part of a team.
- The ability to ensure the safety of themselves and others at all times.
- Willingness to undertake and put into practise Health and safety procedures to comply with legislation.
- Willingness to abide by the councils Equal Opportunities Policy including undertaking appropriate equality awareness training.
- Willingness to undertake any training appropriate to the post as and when appropriate.
- Welsh Desirable.

You may be required to learn or improve your existing skills through attending staff Welsh language training funded by the council. This will be implemented if a need for Welsh language skills in the role arises.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 10 per week

**Salary**: £10.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Monmouth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- cleaning: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RFC006806