Cleaning Team Supervisor

Northumbria Police; North Shields; On-site; GBP 27,204 - 27,513; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle provided

Supportive work environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

A regional law enforcement agency is seeking a full-time Cleaning Supervisor based in North Tyneside & Northumberland. The role involves managing a team of cleaners to ensure health and safety standards are met, carrying out regular audits, and training staff. Candidates should have strong planning skills, a manual driving license, and ideally some supervisory experience. This permanent position includes a six-month probation period and vehicle provision.

Qualifications

• Experience of resourcing and planning work schedules.
• Full manual driving license.
• Ability to work with diverse range of people.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support your cleaning team.
• Conduct audits and inspections of cleanliness.
• Train your team to perform exceptionally.

Skills

Planning and organisation skills

Problem-solving ability

Team working skills

Knowledge of cleaning health and safety

Job description

Salary: Band 4, £27,204 - £27,513 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)

Location: North Tyneside & Northumberland

Hours/Contract: Permanent, Full Time

This role will be working 37 hours, 6am-2pm Monday to Friday, predominantly based at Middle Engine Lane, Wallsend, but will cover various locations across North Tyneside and Northumberland. (Vehicle provided)

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Business Services Department as a Cleaning Supervisor.

Our Business Services team keep things running smoothly for all of us here at Northumbria Police. They are a large team covering various services, including maintenance, health and safety, and supporting Front Line Policing. Sound like a team you’d like to work with? This could be the perfect time to join us as a Cleaning Team Supervisor.

Our Cleaning team are responsible for ensuring our buildings are clean and safe for employees, visitors, and members of the public. In this role you’ll be supervising a team of cleaners, making sure they meet service delivery standards and adhere to health and safety regulations.

What you’ll do

• Manage your team by mentoring and supporting them, to ensure they achieve the required standards and performance.
• Carry out regular audits and inspections to check the quality of cleaning is satisfactory.
• Train and coach your team to deliver excellent work.
• Plan and organise resourcing of your team.
• Implement and manage the attendance management procedure.
• Carry out stock audits.
• Recruitment and selection of new employees.
• Liaise with management to deliver an exceptional service to the force.

What you’ll bring

• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• A full manual driving licence (vehicle provided).
• Experience of resourcing and planning work schedules.
• The ability to problem‑solve quickly.
• Great team working skills.
• Strong ability to work with a diverse range of people.
• Knowledge of cleaning health and safety and COSHH.

Ideally, we’d like you to have supervised people previously, however if you are motivated to learn we’d still love to hear from you.

We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Cleaning Supervisor with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via [e-mail] for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period. If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.