Location: Osgathorpe, Leicestershire
Job Type: Part time, 9 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £20,666 - £25,833 per annum (depending on experience)
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.

Closing date: 13-04-2024

If you are someone who takes pride in how your place of work looks and are excited about the opportunity to work for an assistance dog charity, this could be the role for you.

Canine Partners' mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Cleaner to join our dedicated housekeeping team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

What you will do:

You will be responsible for enabling our staff, volunteers, and clients to enjoy our fantastic facilities by maintaining a high level of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the site. You will cover the main building areas such as the training arenas, offices, and meeting rooms as well as some outside areas. On occasion you will support the housekeepers in the turnaround of rooms and laundry for overnight guests.

What we are looking for:

• Highly effective interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication.
• Ability to take written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to make accurate records.
• Experience of providing cleaning for a small business.
• Knowledge of COSHH.
• Knowledge of health and safety practices (manual handling and working at heights).
• An essential aspect of the role will be working at heights and low levels on a regular basis therefore you must have the physical capability to carry out these and other heavy duty cleaning tasks.

You must be comfortable to work largely independently as well as part of a team whilst being personable and approachable. You will have a keen interest in supporting the needs of the charity.

We can offer you:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Charity sick pay
• Life assurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Wellbeing portal
• Free on-site parking
• Dog friendly offices

This role benefits from working at our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. This is a working training centre therefore you must be comfortable with dogs in the workplace.

The regular working pattern for this role is 9 hours per week (3 days per week). Additional hours may be available on occasion.

If this sounds like the right role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.

All interviews will take place at our training centre.

We recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.

You may also have experience in the following: Cleaner, Cleaning Operative, Cleaning Assistant, Equipment Cleaner, Equipment Cleaning, Commercial Cleaner, Commercial Cleaning, Cleaning Supervisor, Facilities Management, FM, Soft Services, COSHH etc

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