Cleaning Operative in Nottingham

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As a Cleaning Operative, you'll work as part of a wider site team delivering high-quality facilities management services to customers and clients. You'll carry out daily and periodic cleaning tasks across communal areas such as reception, kitchens, bathrooms, corridors and refuse areas, ensuring spaces are clean, safe and welcoming. You'll use a range of cleaning techniques and equipment, including machinery where required, and complete deep cleans to a high standard. You'll also support safe working practices by following COSHH regulations, handling cleaning materials responsibly, and ensuring equipment is stored correctly while minimising disruption to building occupants.

This role is based on site at Equinox House, City Link, Nottingham, NG2 4LA and the working hours are:

• Monday to Thursday 7am – 12pm
• Friday 7am – 11am

Essential Criteria

• Experience working in a cleaning or similar environment
• Ability to safely use cleaning equipment, machinery and chemicals
• Knowledge of Health & Safety and COSHH regulations
• Ability to deliver tasks to a high standard within agreed timescales
• Basic IT skills to use systems for training and work-related tasks

More About You

You have experience working in a cleaning or facilities environment and take pride in delivering consistently high standards. You understand how to safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals and are confident following Health & Safety and COSHH guidelines. You can manage your workload efficiently to meet deadlines and are comfortable using basic IT systems to complete required tasks and training. Any relevant qualifications or training such as BICS standards, NVQs, or manual handling are beneficial but not essential.

At Places for People, we are committed to a safe working environment so a basic DBS check is mandatory.

Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for. We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• Competitive salary with regular annual review
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
• 35 days holiday (including bank holiday) with option to buy or sell days
• Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs - up to £500 savings per year
• Access to wellbeing support such as counselling and flu jabs
• Private GP and health support services available
• Access to a rewards platform with retail and lifestyle discounts
• Savings on groceries, travel, shopping and home products
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Access to professional qualifications and career progression
• Internal development programmes and learning support
• Recognition schemes such as Star Awards and Colleagues Awards
• Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
• Free membership to Places Gyms

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then you can consider this role and the next steps in your application. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, you may contact our skills and employment team on request.

We may bring the closing date forward if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking.

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.

Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn't allow them to self-advocate. Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.