Job description
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- To supervise a team of cleaners, preparing rotas and allocating site areas for specific cleaners to be responsible for cleaning.
- To arrange for cover during annual leave, sickness and periods when staff may be away from work.
- To ensure that all cleaners are adequately trained in relation to the use of equipment and health and safety including COSHH standards.
- To control stock levels of cleaning materials and place orders as required.
- To ensure that all cleaning machinery complies with current health and safety legislation and required checks of machinery are carried out on a timely basis.
- To use cleaning materials and machinery when carrying out cleaning of own area.
- Cleaning of floors: vacuuming, washing, buffing, mopping, etc.
- Spot cleaning of spillages and other marks.
- Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors.
- Cleaning of internal glass on stairwells, doors, windows.
- Emptying and cleaning bins: waste and recycle bins.
- Cleaning toilet and showers including sanitary fittings and surrounds.
- Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets.
- Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work.
- Reporting defects to the premises, furniture and fittings, etc. to the Site Manager.
- Participation in and oversight of routine and deep cleaning during periods when the Trust is closed. This may include amongst other things washing carpets, high level dusting, wall washing, buffing and polishing floors, ledges, stairwells, etc.
- Occasional unlocking of the building.
- Auditing of the building using trust audit documentation on a weekly basis. Action any recommendations on the audit i.e. re training, re inducting or upskilling.
- Setting a high standard of cleaning across the campus and managing those expectations.