Cleaner - Kingsley House

We are looking for an experienced and hardworking Cleaner to join our team at Kingsley House

The National Autistic Society supports autistic adults to enable them to live the life they choose. We work to develop skills promoting their health and wellbeing, inclusion in the local community and greater independence.

We have positions available from 25 to 35 hours per week. The hourly rate for this position is £11.44

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• To clean all areas of the service including kitchens, bathroom/toilets, corridors and communal areas as per cleaning schedule
• To carry out kitchen/washing up etc. as required
• To ensure that all daily, weekly and monthly cleaning schedules are complied with on time and to the standards required.
• Be aware of current cleaning and hygiene procedures. Maintain awareness of good practice.
• Ensure supplies of cleaning materials and all equipment is maintained, cleaned and stored with any faults reported to the line manager
• Report any breakages or damages and repairs that need to be carried out to your line manager
• To understand and comply with all statutory and legal requirements that are relevant such as Health and Safety and COSHH

We need you to be:

• Team player with good communication skills, friendly and helpful
• Flexible with a proactive approach to ‘get the job done’
• Able to manage time and tasks effectively
• Reliable and punctual
• Understanding of COSHH, infection control and work hazard
• Understanding of our procedures and policies

We offer a whole range of benefits including:

To protect our autistic adults, all staff are required to have a criminal background check. Possession of an DBS Check either on the Update Service or conducted within the last 12 months would be preferable but not essential.

In addition, we offer a whole range of benefits including:

• Excellent training and development programme
• Career progression opportunities
• Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call.
• Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
• Competitive pension scheme
• 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays) with the option to buy or sell annual leave every year
• Access to our benefits portal - online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple, Nando's and loads more!
• Cycle to work scheme
• Headspace membership for yourself + 3 friends/family members - Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation
• Occupational sick pay
• Salary Finance - Our charity partner offers Salary Finance loans as a financial wellbeing benefit for our staff.
• Eligibility for Blue Light Card
• Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200!
• Level 1 membership to Healthcare Cash Plan for all permanent staff!
• Options to buy private healthcare, private dental insurance, and many other salary sacrifices

You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real-life experiences working with autistic people. You will have experience supporting vulnerable people in a residential setting and if you share our values and are willing to make a difference to the lives of autistic people, we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we’ll support you every step of the way.

To apply for the role, please click the button at the end of this page to apply online.

Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include reference and criminal background checks.

We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.  

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.