Cleaning Operative- Campsfield IRC

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Oxford; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services in Oxford is seeking a Cleaning Operative to maintain a clean, safe environment for residents, staff and visitors at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre. The role requires attention to detail and reliability in a secure setting.

You will work 35 hours per week, with opportunities for training and progression within Mitie. The job offers competitive pay and a benefits package, and you will join a team delivering essential services in a unique environment.

Qualifications

• Previous cleaning experience is desirable.
• Ability to work effectively within a secure detention environment around residents.
• Good understanding of health and safety practices, including COSHH requirements.
• Reliable, proactive and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to maintaining high cleaning standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of cleaning across designated areas per schedules and site requirements.
• Clean toilets, showers, fixtures, fittings, and communal areas to maintain hygiene and cleanliness standards.
• Safely use, handle, transport, and store cleaning equipment and materials in accordance with COSHH regulations and Mitie procedures.
• Inspect cleaning equipment, ensuring it remains serviceable and ready for use at all times.
• Identify and report maintenance issues, stock shortages, and, where required, undertake the safe cleaning of body fluids in accordance with approved procedures.

Skills

Cleaning experience

Detention environment work

COSHH & safety knowledge

Independent & team worker

Attention to detail

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

ROLE: Cleaning Operative

HOURS: 35 hours per week

LOCATION: Oxford, Oxfordshire

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Cleaning Operative who will help maintain a clean, safe, and hygienic environment for residents, staff, and visitors at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre.

Role Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of cleaning across designated areas in line with cleaning schedules and site requirements.
• Clean toilets, showers, fixtures, fittings, and communal areas to maintain hygiene and cleanliness standards.
• Safely use, handle, transport, and store cleaning equipment and materials in accordance with COSHH regulations and Mitie procedures.
• Inspect cleaning equipment, ensuring it remains serviceable and ready for use at all times.
• Identify and report maintenance issues, stock shortages, and, where required, undertake the safe cleaning of body fluids in accordance with approved procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Previous cleaning experience is desirable.
• Ability to work effectively within a secure detention environment around residents.
• Good understanding of health and safety practices, including COSHH requirements.
• Reliable, proactive, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to maintaining high cleaning standards.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for training, development, and career progression within Mitie.
• Be part of a supportive team delivering essential services in a unique and important environment.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Zeeshan Siddiqui at [e-mail].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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