Cleaner

Leicester City Council; Leicester; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

LGPS

Flexible working

Training & development

Transport discounts

Job summary

Leicester City Council is recruiting for a full-time Building Cleaning role across Leicester. You will work 37 hours per week at various city locations, with shifts from early morning to late evening, including weekends and bank holidays.

The job includes cleaning offices, washrooms and public spaces, with a strong emphasis on safety and teamwork. The role requires physical fitness and the ability to work independently and with others.

Qualifications

• Physically demanding role requiring good fitness.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations for cleaning tasks.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Perform cleaning tasks across offices: washing, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming.
• Empty litter bins and dust, polish surfaces, fixtures and fittings.
• Clean toilets, showers and changing areas both inside and outside.
• Maintain cleaning equipment and adhere to safety guidelines.

Skills

Physical fitness

Health and safety regs

Team player

Flexible

Tools

Vacuum cleaners

Cleaning equipment

Job description

Reference

REQ8610

Information

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Region: Central

Location: Various locations across Leicester City

Salary: *GBP*25,614 Per Year

Contractual hours: 37

Basis: Full time

Description

Join our dynamic Building cleaning team to play a key role in keeping our buildings, workspaces, and its surroundings to the highest standard of cleanliness.

This role will be based at both Haymarket Bus Station & St Margerets Bus station. Weekends and bank holidays working is required. Hours range from 7:00am - 22:30pm.

What You’ll Be Doing

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll complete various cleaning tasks. This can vary from basic washing to sweeping, mopping and vacuum cleaning office spaces. In addition, you’ll be required to empty litter bins, polish, and dust designated areas and surfaces, fixtures, and fittings, both internally and externally. This will also include toilets, showers, changing areas and associated facilities.

What You’ll Need

As a person, you’ll take pride in completing tasks to an excellent level and has a reasonable level of fitness because this is a physically demanding role. With knowledge of health and safety regulations you'll be able to use and maintain cleaning equipment including vacuums. In addition, you’ll able to work well independently as well as successfully within a team, being a great team player who is able to be flexible and get stuck in.

What We Can Offer You

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose fromseveralflexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at ourbenefits calculator.

Join Us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build an council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For an informal conversation please contact Mandy Harlow at [e-mail]

Interviews will take place on Thursday 12th November 2026.