Cleaner, Cleaning Services

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

An opportunity has arisen within the Sheltered Housing Team to undertake the role of Cleaner. This is a part time position, based in our Kettering schemes. The position is for 30 hours per week, working Monday to Friday, however some flexibility will be expected to assist with holiday and sickness cover. You will be expected to cover various schemes throughout the Kettering and neighbouring area, so the ability to travel is essential.

You will be responsible for the cleaning standards in our sheltered housing schemes. Experience in general housekeeping/cleaning work in a similar environment would be an advantage, however full training will be provided.

The right candidate will have excellent customer service skills. Whilst a good understanding of health and safety standards and COSHH is desirable, more important is your outgoing, friendly approach and passion for providing a high quality service to our tenants. The ability to travel between sites and work on your own initiative is essential.

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

• Customer‑focused
• Respectful
• Efficient
• Supportive
• Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).