Cleaners
South Yorkshire Police
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Job summary
South Yorkshire Police is seeking Cleaning Operatives to maintain high cleanliness standards across multiple sites in South Yorkshire. You will perform cleaning tasks, organise routine work, and cover assigned locations as needed to ensure facilities remain presentable and functional.
The role requires experience in industrial/commercial cleaning, ability to follow specifications, and willingness to undergo COSHH training as necessary. Flexible hours and a supportive team environment are offered.
Qualifications
- Industrial/Commercial cleaning work history or equivalent.
- Experience of working to specifications.
- BIC’s trained or willing to work towards a qualification.
- Trained in Chemical identification (COSHH) or willing to work towards a qualification.
- Willing to work unsociable hours as required.
- Good communication skills, both written and oral.
Responsibilities
- Undertake cleaning operations and plan routine tasks to maintain cleanliness to required standards.
- Cover locations within your area to cover for absences or abstractions.
Skills
Tools
Job description
Salary: £24,747 pro rata
The cleaning services function ensures that the offices, toilets, changing rooms, shower rooms, kitchens, public areas, meeting and conference rooms and all other working areas, furniture, equipment, and floor spaces are maintained to a high level of general cleanliness and remain presentable and fit for their intended purpose.
The cleaning services function ensures that the offices, toilets, changing rooms, shower rooms, kitchens, public areas, meeting and conference rooms and all other working areas, furniture, equipment, and floor spaces are maintained to a high level of general cleanliness and remain presentable and fit for their intended purpose.
As a Cleaning Operative you are responsible for undertaking cleaning operations, organising, and planning routine tasks to ensure that locations are cleaned to the standard required. You will be required to cover locations within your area to cover for abstractions.
- 20 hours at Moss Way, Sheffield
- 10 hours at Operations Complex, Sheffield
- 15 hours at Carbrook- Force HQ, Sheffield
- 20 hours at Carbrook- Force HQ, Sheffield
- 27 hours at Robert Dyson House, Rotherham
- Industrial/Commercial Cleaning work history or equivalent
- Experience of working to specifications
- BIC’s trained or willing to work towards a qualification.
- Trained in Chemical identification (COSHH) or willing to work towards a qualification.
- Willing to work unsociable hours as required.
- Good communication skills, both written and oral
We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:
- A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
- Generous annual leave allowance
- A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Flexible working arrangements including flexitime and hybrid working.
- A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
- Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
- Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice.
- Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme.
- Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 (yhrn.police)
- Membership to the Sports and Social Club
- Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks
Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 3 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.
South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.
South Yorkshire Police’s overarching aim is to deliver an excellent police service to support safer communities. The public’s assessment of our excellence is influenced by the level of trust and confidence in us, as an organisation and as individuals. In comparison to the general public, police officers and police staff are held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability. In applying to join the police, applicants are accepting of these higher standards and understand the implications on their right to privacy.
At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.
South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.
There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.
This role has been categorised as a Fixed role.
Fixed: This is a traditional arrangement, applicable when the work is mostly required to be undertaken at a fixed single place of work (on police premises) for most of the time. The work can only or is more effectively delivered from a police premises or other agreed organisational/partner premises.
For further information about the role, please contact: Alison Wild on 07768035728.
15 th October 2026.
Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Recruitment Manager and the Line Manager for the role.
Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance, and sickness absence criteria check.
We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation which provides fair and equal consideration to all of our applicants. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions, or beliefs and of neurodivergence.
We’re proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Different backgrounds and experiences make us stronger.
If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.
You must ensure that you apply through the internal jobs board (Opportunity Marketplace via Oracle).
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