Cleaner/Porter - Chelmsley Wood in Birmingham

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, ensuring that they are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.

Facilities Management currently has a Cleaner/Porter vacancy within our Corporate Asset Management Department. The department consists of 3 key business areas: Fleet Services, Estates and Facilities Management, providing a wide range of enabling support services including acquisitions and disposals, maintenance and servicing of police buildings and vehicles.

The successful applicant will be responsible for carrying out general cleaning and some porter duties within areas of an operational police station or partner building, which consist of offices, washrooms and welfare areas, custody suites and forensic areas. Full training will be given commensurate with the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) standards. There may be a requirement to commute to other sites within reasonable travelling distance to cover abstractions of colleagues. Cleaner/porter operatives are required to work across the police estate of West Midlands, covering Birmingham.

We currently have the following Part Time vacancy:

• Chelmsley Wood: 20 hours per week: Monday to Friday 07:00 - 11:00am

Salary - Please note the salary stated is pro rata.

• Damp dusting furniture, fixtures and furnishings, suction cleaning and wet mopping floors and stairwells, washing walls and other vertical surfaces and tiled areas up to a height of 3.53m (11ft) using high level cleaning equipment.
• Cleaning kitchens and welfare areas including cleaning and defrosting refrigerators, cleaning inside units and cupboards.
• Maintaining cleaning equipment and reporting any faulty equipment or materials.
• Reporting any maintenance defects noted in the building.
• Carrying out porter duties that involve manual handling of furniture and goods, and clearing/cleaning external areas as instructed.
• Undertaking learning that equips you with the skills to safely carry out any other duties commensurate with the purpose and grading of the post.

• Experience of working within a similar role, ideally across multiple sites.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to understand both written and verbal instruction.
• Basic IT skills to use apps such as email and e-learning packages.
• Ability to undertake work that involves manual handling.
• Desire to undertake learning and development to demonstrate competency in performing all duties within the role, such as safe use of cleaning equipment and machinery, manual handling and lifting equipment.
• Agility to commute to alternative areas of work within the police estate as required.
• Ability to work on own initiative and possess good interpersonal skills.
• Some weekend working or bank holiday working will be required as per your job description.

• Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
• Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
• Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
• A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs.
• Comprehensive benefits including pension, Blue Light Card, and employee assistance programme.

Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, which will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Successful candidates will be subject to a medical assessment which may include a drug or hearing test.

TBC

For further information email careers@westmidlands.police.uk.

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment, we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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