Heritage Cleaner, HOUSE OF COMMONS

HOUSE OF COMMONS

House of Commons

The House of Commons a unique and exciting place to work right at the heart of the UK's thriving democratic system.

Behind the scenes, the House of Commons Service is made up of more than 3,000 employees who support and facilitate the smooth day to day running of the House. They provide professional services to Members of Parliament, their staff, and the wider parliamentary community.

Staff Benefits

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:

• 30 days' annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).
• Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Access to training and development.
• Flexible working.
• Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.
  
  
  

Introduction

The Customer Experience and Service Delivery team delivers integrated facilities management services to ensure a comfortable, safe, and efficient environment for MPs, their staff, and staff of the House to work in; as well as providing a welcoming and functional environment for all visitors to the House of Commons.

The Heritage Cleaning Team sits within the Customer Experience and Service Delivery team and are responsible for the cleaning of high profile and historic areas of the Place of Westminster.

The Role

As a Heritage cleaner you are responsible for the cleanliness of your allocated area of the Palace. This will involve providing the appropriate standards of conservation cleaning as well as more regular daily office cleaning tasks.

You will also support the Heritage Team Leader with the delivery of other scheduled specialist cleaning tasks.

Appropriate conservation cleaning training will be provided.

Some of the responsibilities for this role include:

• To clean allocated areas, in the agreed time, according to the Heritage Cleaning specification and to the agreed standards.
• To cover additional areas caused by sickness or holidays as reasonably directed by the Team Leader or Heritage Cleaning Manager.
• To ensure that all cleaning equipment is in good working order, especially with regards to electrical equipment and to report all faults.
• To attend team meetings and training sessions as required.
• To obtain products and consumables, from the stores, as required to carry out daily cleaning duties.
  
  
  

Skills And Experience

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• Ideally holder of BICSc Licence to Practice
• Ability to help and support colleagues to get the jobs done whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to both work as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Experience of working in a historic and high-profile environment.
  
  
  

Next Steps and Additional Information:

• Application Form - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit an application providing evidence against criteria 2-5 in the Job Description.
  
  
  

More information on the role and the full criteria can be found in the Job Description.

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.