Cleaning Team Leader

Oldham College; Oldham; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Oldham College is seeking a reliable Cleaning Team Leader to ensure cleanliness and hygiene across campus facilities. The role includes managing a team of cleaners, maintaining quality standards, and delivering training in a supportive educational environment. Competitive pay and various employee benefits are offered.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Scheme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Provision

Staff Development Days

Free Confidential Counselling Service

Subsidised Car Parking

On-site Day Nursery

On-site Hair and Beauty Salon

Qualifications

• Experience in a cleaning role, ideally in a management position.
• Strong focus on cleanliness and attention to detail.
• Ability to lead and develop a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a high-quality cleaning service across college facilities.
• Oversee the training and development of cleaning staff.
• Maintain health and safety standards including COSHH.

Skills

People Skills

Attention to Detail

Leadership

Independence

Teamwork

Job description

Cleaning Team Leader

Location: Oldham College, Oldham
Salary: £12.84 - £13.47 per hour (FTE £24,484-£25,674 p.a.)
Hours: Flexible – Choose from shifts to suit your availability

Join Our Team – Permanent Cleaning Team Leader Role

Oldham College is a leading further education provider in Greater Manchester, committed to creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for students and staff. To support our vibrant campus, we’re looking for reliable and hardworking Cleaning Team Leaders to join our team on a permanent contract basis.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide an excellent quality, flexible, responsive and customer focused cleaning service across all college and university buildings including all fixtures and fittings.
• Be responsible for a team of cleaners who will carry out essential cleaning tasks, keeping all areas spotless and hygienic
• Carry out audits and quality checks to monitor cleaning standards and use performance management tools when appropriate.
• Deliver training to support cleaner development and continuous improvements in service.
• Ensure that the cleaners follow Health & Safety guidelines, including COSHH, when handling cleaning equipment and chemicals
• Monitor stock levels for consumables, ensuring that the team has access to materials as needed.
• Report maintenance or repair needs to the Facilities Management team
• Be a friendly and professional presence on campus

What We’re Looking For:

• Someone with good people skills and cleaning experience that is already in, or ready for the move up to, a management role.
• A keen eye for detail and a commitment to cleanliness
• Ability to lead others to deliver a high quality service
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Why Join Us?

• Supportive team– work in a friendly and welcoming environment
• Competitive pay – Between £12.84 per hour and £13.47 per hour

If you're looking for a Cleaning Management role in a supportive educational setting, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and find a schedule that works for you.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

• Generous Pension Scheme
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open-minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.