Team Leader Part Time

Position: Team Leader (Permanent, Part Time)
Location: Uppingham

Team Leader

Contract hours: 32.5-36
Basis:
Part time
Salary: £19,651.02 - £25,747.85 per annum

Location:

Uppingham School

Job purpose

To supervise and be responsible for all cleaning activities within academic buildings across the school and to lead a team of Domestic Cleaners to provide a sufficient cleaning service to the highest of standards.

To ensure cleaning standards are maintained, applied consistently, and developed further and staff are suitably trained to maintain standards both internally and in line with any applicable regulations and legislation. Maintain a close working relationship with the Assistant Cleaning Manager, as the job will require working together on a number of tasks and activities.

Working 6 days per week, we have various shift patterns between 32.5 to 36 hours per week:

• 5.25 hours per day, from 8:30am to 2:25pm. This role is for 32 weeks per year, plus an additional 105 annual clean down hours.

• 5.25 hours per day, from 8:30am to 2:25pm, 52 weeks per year.

• 6 hours per day, from 6:00am to 12:30pm, 52 weeks per year.

Responsibilities

To work under the direction and guidance of an Assistant Cleaning Manager to carry out the following tasks:

• Be courteous to colleagues and pupils and provide a welcoming environment to parents, contractors, conference delegates, and other visitors.

• Work independently to complete the daily/weekly tasks assigned by your line manager to a high standard.

• Organise cleaning schedules of work areas for cleaning staff to accomplish high standards. To amend schedules of work as required, including for periods of staff absence, preparing for the start or end of terms, or visiting parents.

• Provide induction training for new staff members, continue coaching, mentoring, motivating and appraising staff members to ensure their performance is maintained at a high standard.

• Undertake checks of cleaning standards in work areas of central buildings, providing feedback to individual staff members, and escalating to your relevant line manager where required.

• Monitor, control and distribute cleaning product stock.

• Report equipment faults and act appropriately to ensure faulty equipment is not used until repaired or replaced.

• To report staff absence accordingly and undertake return to work interviews.

• Support and organise domestic staff during Buttery service.

• Comply fully with Health & Safety and Hygiene regulations and Infection Control guidelines, best practice, regulations, and the School Health & Safety Policies and guidance, including:
o Chemical safety (COSHH)
o Comply fully with, ensuring, for example, the wearing of protective clothing as required.

• Ensure that issued uniform is always worn, and is kept fresh, clean and presentable.

• Attend professional training as required.

• As well as keeping up to date with online training.

• Individual areas may be changed or assigned on a rotational basis, and you may be required to assist colleagues in another area.

• To promptly and efficiently carry out other ad hoc tasks as required.

Qualifications, skills and experience, personal qualities required

Skills and Experience

• Previous supervisory experience

• Previous cleaning experience

• Knowledge of cleaning procedures

• Effective communication skills

• Reasonable numeracy and literacy

• Ability to organise workload and balance priorities to meet deadlines

• Excellent attention to detail

• Knowledge of health & safety requirements (desirable)

• An understanding of COSHH (desirable)

• Previous experience of using industrial cleaning equipment (desirable)

Personal Qualities

• Friendly and approachable

• Ability to work with minimum supervision

• Ability to work with others

• Sets high standards of work

• Good time keeping

• Ability to deal with colleagues, pupils and parents in a pleasant and helpful manner

Benefits

• 50% Contribution towards premiums for the School’s private health scheme

• Discount on School fees

• Discount at a local nursery in Uppingham

• Westfield healthcare

• Westfield Rewards which give discounts at various retailers, gyms, cinemas, and restaurants

• Contributory pension scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• In house Occupational Health Service team leader

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