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Job Title: Cleaning Operative / Janitorial Staff

Location: Carlisle, CA1 2TL

Hours: 21 Hours per week - 4 days on, 4 days off, 19:00-01:00am

Job Purpose:

To deliver high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and safety across client sites, ensuring all facilities are maintained in a clean, safe, and organised condition in line with Sodexo’s service standards and client requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Clean all washroom facilities, including toilets, urinals, hand basins, and showers.
• Maintain vending room areas: clean vending machine facials, water fountains, fixed seating.
• Vacuum, sweep, and mop floors following training instructions.
• Clean and polish fixtures and fittings as required.
• Clean windowsills, glass partitions, mirrors, doors, and door handles.
• Collect and empty rubbish, replace liners, and clean bins as necessary.
• Transport waste materials to designated collection points, segregating recycling where applicable.
• Keep all cleaning equipment clean, maintained, and in safe working order.
• Ensure all cleaning tasks are completed to the required standard on daily, weekly, and periodic schedules.
• Use chemicals responsibly, adhering to COSHH regulations for proper labelling, dilution, and application.
• Follow procedures to avoid damage to floors and fixtures during cleaning.
• Maintain cleanliness in restaurant areas, including emptying bins and replenishing dispensers such as toilet rolls, soaps, and towels.
• Ensure sanitization facilities are well maintained.
• Keep cleaning stores clean, organised, and safe.
• Maintain janitorial trolley stock levels and ensure equipment is clean, safe, and operational.
• Use safety signs appropriately.
• Respond promptly to any complaints and report faults or maintenance issues to the GSM or Assistant GSM.
• Perform any reasonable tasks as assigned by the GSM or Assistant GSM.

Accountabilities:

• Complete all required training related to cleaning services and health & safety.
• Deliver a high-quality cleaning service in line with client and company standards.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and client staff to maintain harmonious working relationships.
• Follow all health & safety regulations, including proper use of PPE and maintaining a hazard-free work environment.
• Perform cleaning tasks in accordance with specified methods and instructions.
• Comply with COSHH requirements and client policies related to housekeeping, infection control, and security.
• Maintain personal hygiene and adhere strictly to uniform and dress codes.
• Attend all job-specific training sessions, including Health & Safety and Manual Handling.

Person Specification:

• Full working knowledge of cleaning equipment, materials, and chemicals.
• Understanding of all areas to be cleaned during the shift.
• Commitment to following health & safety practices rigorously.
• Willingness to undertake relevant training.
• Good time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Dedication to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you for you.

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Belong in a team, thrive in service.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications