Mobile Cleaner

Gwynedd Council; Caernarfon; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Gwynedd Council invites applications for a cleaning role within its schools. The successful candidate will maintain hygiene by cleaning designated areas, using appropriate powered equipment, and ensuring safe working practices in a bilingual Welsh-English environment.

Applicants should have experience as a cleaner, good interpersonal and communication skills, and be able to follow Welsh and English instructions.

Qualifications

• Experience of being employed as a cleaner.
• Essential interpersonal and communication skills.
• Welsh and English language literacy for workplace communication.

Responsibilities

• Clean designated areas in school premises to maintain hygiene.
• Use powered equipment when appropriate.
• Clean, wash, sweep, vacuum, and empty bins.
• Polish and dust furniture and fixtures.
• Ensure health and safety compliance.
• Report concerns regarding child or vulnerable adult welfare.
• Move between areas as required.
• Contribute to self-development.
• Follow data protection and information management guidelines.
• Support carbon reduction initiatives.
• Undertake other duties aligned with salary and responsibilities.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Good communication skills

Job description

Responsibilities

• To undertake, as part of a team, the cleaning of designated areas within the school premises to ensure that they are kept in a clean and hygienic condition.
• Use of powered equipment when appropriate.
• Cleaning, washing, sweeping and vacuum cleaning.
• Emptying litter and recycling bins.
• Polishing and dusting of designated areas including furniture and fixtures.
• Cleaning toilets and shower areas, replenish toilet paper and soap.
• The duties may vary between terms and school closure periods.
• Occasionally move between areas.
• Responsibility for self-development.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

• Training in Health and Safety, e.g., moving and handling or first aid.

Relevant experience

• Experience of being employed as a cleaner.

Skills and specialist knowledge

• Essential
• Desirable: Good interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills

Language requirements

• Listening and Speaking - Entry Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.
• Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information.
• Reading and Understanding - Entry Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e-mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.
• Writing - Entry Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.