Campus Cleaning Services Supervisor (01326-0625)

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK university seeks a supervisor for its cleaning services team. The role involves leading a team, ensuring high standards of cleanliness, and delivering exceptional customer service to the university community. Candidates should possess strong team management skills and relevant health and safety knowledge.

Benefits

Attractive pension scheme

26 days holiday plus Christmas closure

Learning and development opportunities

Generous parental leave policy

Onsite childcare facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a team and ensuring service quality.
• Knowledge of basic Health and Safety relevant to the role.
• Good IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead a team of Cleaning Assistants.
• Provide effective cleaning services across the university campus.
• Ensure cleaning service levels are met and maintained.

Skills

Team Management

Customer Service

IT Skills

Health and Safety Knowledge

Job description

Location University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Department Estates - Campus & Cleaning Services

Position Type Permanent

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Tara O’Connell (Residence Manager) at [e-mail]

We are looking for a supervisor to join the Campus Cleaning Services within our Residence team. The role requires you to work with, organise and lead a team of Cleaning Assistants to provide an effective and efficient cleaning service across the University campus. This is a 5 day over 7, 36.5 hours per week shift pattern and you will be required to work weekends. You will be looking after a team of cleaning staff where you will be responsible for ensuring that the cleaning service level is delivered.

About You

We are looking for a candidate who is experienced in managing a team and has knowledge of basic Health and Safety relevant to the role, ensuring that the needs of the business are kept as a priority. You should have good IT Skills and be confident with Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel. You should have a friendly and approachable manner and be confident when attending any meetings with other supervisors. You will need to be a good team player, who works well with others and is keen to provide excellent customer service for our students, staff and visitors to the University.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

About the Department For further information about Campus & Cleaning Services, please visit our website.

About the University

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

*QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.

How to Apply

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 15th July 2025 at 23:55 (BST)

To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date.

Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application form past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 23:30).

You will have to attach a CV and a cover letter.

• YourCVshould include your employment history (including your most recent employment), your education history, and any other relevant experience.
• Yourcover lettershould explain yourmotivations for applyingto the role. It should also explain, using examples, how you meet each of theessential and desirable criteriadetailed in the Job Description PDF document below. Please note that all essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to interview.

Please seehere for guidance on writing a cover letter. Wehighly recommendusing individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how you meet the criterion, thoughyou are free to format the letter as you wish.

To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications submitted via our official careers webpage, warwick-careers.tal.net.

• Interview Date: To be confirmed
• Start Date: To be confirmed

What we Offer

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 26 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here .

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer .

Warwick is committedto building an organisation ofmutual respectanddignity, promoting awelcoming, diverse, and inclusive workingand learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to berecognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpageshere .

The University currently holds aRace Equality Charter Bronze Award,Athena Swan Sliver Awardand aDisability Smart Bronze Award.Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here . The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of theEUTOPIA European University Alliance .

Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.

In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).

We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.

Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders

The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.

We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government Website to see if you are eligible to obtain the right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.