Cleaning Operative

**Description**:
**Reference**:OP3876

**No. of Vacancies**: 1

**Location**: Central Library, Stockport SK1 3RS

**Salary**: £12.65 per hour
**Hours**: 11 hours per week
Mon 06:00 to 09:00
Tues to Fri 6:00 - 08:00
**Contract**: Permanent

At Totally Local Company we have an exciting opportunity to join our Cleaning Team, based at Stockport Central Library.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated and reliable people with good communication skills. You will need to be a good team worker with good organisational skills. Previous experience is desirable but not essential.
- To undertake a full range of cleaning tasks, this will include cleaning, washing of walls, furniture, and fittings, sweeping, suction cleaning, floor buffing, toilet cleaning, emptying and cleaning of waste receptacles, and fixtures and fittings in designated sites.
- To undertake all cleaning tasks to the required standards and frequencies as to the agreed cleaning specification.
- To use all equipment, machinery and cleaning materials effectively, efficiently and in accordance with safe working practices.
- To report any faults with equipment, machinery or the building itself, to the on site supervisor or Area Manager describing fully the nature of the faults.
- To participate in staff training programmes and to carry out all duties in a responsible manner with due regard to the Authority’s Health and Safety Policy.
- To maintain good working relationships with clients and deal with any minor queries or complaints, and to relay any significant customer issues to the on site supervisor or Area Manager for further action
- To undertake such other duties related to the work of the section appropriate to the post, as may be required.

**Job Activities**:

- Checking of all electrical equipment prior to use, i.e. plugs and cables and reporting any faults to the Site Supervisor or Area Manager.
- Preparing of cleaning solutions for use in buckets, mop buckets or spray bottles, following manufacturers recommendations.
- Emptying and wiping out waste receptacles depositing waste into black refuse sacks, to be taken to main waste bin / skip area or pick point on site.
- Hygienic cleaning of toilet areas including toilet bowls, basins, urinals, walls and floors.
- Hygienic cleaning of kitchen areas, including sinks, surrounds and floors.
- Cleaning of classrooms corridors and stairs including sweeping hard floor surfaces, vacuuming carpet areas and mopping or buffing hard floor surfaces.
- Cleaning of office areas and lounges including vacuuming carpets, sweeping, mopping or buffing hard floor surfaces.
- Dusting and polishing ledges, accessible shelving, and wood type desks (clear desk policy).
- Wiping down tables, spot cleaning walls and wiping telephones.
- Cleaning internal glass.
- Machine stripping and polishing hard floor surfaces.
- Machine stripping and re-sealing wood type surfaces.
- Machine Scrub clean safety floor surfaces.
- Any other duties that are commensurate with the role.

NB: Please note weekly tasks maybe performed more frequently at the discretion of the cleaner or at the request of the Head Teacher or Building Manager and a variation would be issued to increase costs and frequencies.

**About Totally Local Company**:
Based in the heart of Stockport, Totally Local Company provides a huge range of services to the public and private sectors across Greater Manchester.

Here’s a flavour of what our team of experts do

You’ll see us everywhere from school kitchens to parks, playgrounds and even up trees We’re the ones that fix roads and clean, light and provide signs for your streets. We empty your bins and help to keep your area secure. We clean schools and office spaces (and more), tidy grounds and dispose of waste too.

We are a safety-first organisation - it is at the heart of everything we do. We make sure that you have everything you need before you start your role - that includes sharing the great benefits you will be entitled to as a TLC employee.

**Our People**

Across Totally Local Company our people do a huge variety of roles, but one of the things that our teams all have in common is we want to do the very best for the community we support.