Cleaning Supervisor

We welcome applications for this support post to commence August 2024.

The Role

The Estates Department exist to provide and maintain a high quality and safe teaching and learning environment for students. It is also vital that we provide high quality facilities to both teachers, support staff and governors in order to facilitate and maintain an outstanding working environment which is safe and secure. In addition, we aim to constantly improve facilities, through minor and major projects of work and through the reactive, planned and preventative maintenance programme.

The Estates team currently consists of two Estates Managers; one Deputy Estates Manager; one Estates Administrator; one Site Team Leader; three Assistant Site Supervisors; one Site Operative; one General Operative; a Cleaning Manager and a team of thirty-two Cleaning Operatives. The Estates Department are responsible for: Site security, site maintenance, cleaning, reactive maintenance, planned maintenance, compliance service agreements, projects, health and Safety including training, college car parking, college minibuses, fire evacuation, first aid.

The Estates team log requests and faults through the online CEDAR reporting system. The jobs are logged and prioritised in order of importance and assigned to the relevant team member.

The main duties and responsibilities of this role include –

• Supervise, and support the cleaning team.
• Organise and delegate cleaning areas to the team and external contractors as required.
• To manage any day-to-day issues within the cleaning team and report to the Cleaning Manager.
• Assist the Cleaning Manager with the daily running of the cleaning team & site.
• Ensure areas affected by absence are covered by the team on a daily basis and for the short-term, short-term cleaning is to be covered by the cleaning supervisor if staff are not available.

For the full job description please see attached ‘Job Pack’.

The Successful Candidate

Cardinal Newman College is a wonderful place to work, and this is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to join our friendly and well established Estates department.

The Estates department is looking for someone who has at least 1 years’ experience in a similar role, supervising staff and allocating tasks and has the ability to work as part of a team & as an individual.

You should display the values, attitudes, and behaviours consistent with the Catholic Ethos of the College and have a commitment to equality/diversity and the safeguarding of young people and vulnerable adults.

Terms and Conditions

Hours: 30 hours per week, term time plus 3 weeks, working times will be 6.00am-9.00am & 4.00pm - 7.00pm (can provide some flexibility on shift start and finish times if required.)

Salary: The post will be paid on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Pay Spine at points 10 to 11- pro rata to £25,276 to £26,097 per annum. Actual Salary £19,043.15 to £19,661.70 per annum

Closing date for receipt of applications: 11.59pm on Monday 13th June (we reserve the right to close the advert in advance of this date).

Why work at Cardinal Newman College?

We are a happy and thriving Catholic Sixth Form College committed to equality and diversity, welcoming colleagues from all backgrounds into our community irrespective of their religion or belief, ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, marital or pregnancy status.

An outstanding college in every aspect, Cardinal Newman is one of the highest performing Sixth Form Colleges nationally for Value Added. We recognise the invaluable contribution our dedicated staff make to the success of our students and the College as whole. As such, our aim is to foster a culture where staff feel valued and supported.

We also offer a range of excellent staff benefits, including: 

• Generous Pension schemes for both teachers and support staff 
• Pro rata to 22 days holiday (increasing to 25 days after 5 years’ service) plus 4 concessionary days and bank holidays for support staff
• A genuine commitment to staff health and wellbeing
• Access to a salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and Techscheme
• Free use of the on-site gym 
• Access to professional development and the opportunity to undertake professional qualifications through apprenticeships
• Flu Vouchers
• Staff savings scheme

More detailed information on further staff benefits can be found within our staff perks document attached.

Apply Now

Completed application forms should be submitted to the Human Resources Department by 11.59pm on Monday 13th June (we reserve the right to close the advert in advance of this date). We do ask that you accept, in the interests of economy, that if you have not heard from us by the end of June that you have not been selected for interview on this occasion.

Further Information

Further details are available at http://www.cardinalnewman.ac.uk/ or by telephone to the college on 01772 460181 or 07730 521 540. All offers of appointment are subject to Disclosure and Barring Service Clearance as well as a range of other safer recruitment checks.