[ref. e28091416] Sunderland - Cleaning Supervisor
Cleaning Team Supervisor
Salary: Band 4. £24,921 – £25,203Location: Southern Area
Hours/Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Working for #TeamNP
This role will be working 37 hours, 6am-2pm Monday to Friday across various locations across Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Tyneside.
Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.
As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.
Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.
Our Business Services team keep things running smoothly for all of us here at Northumbria Police. They are a large team covering various services, including maintenance, health and safety, and supporting Front Line Policing. Sound like a team you’d like to work with?This could be the perfect time to join us as a Cleaning Team Supervisor.
The Role
Our Cleaning team are responsible for ensuring our buildings are clean and safe for employees, visitors, and members of the public. In this role you’ll be supervising a team of cleaners, making sure they meet service delivery standards and adhere to health and safety regulations.
What you’ll do
Manage your team by mentoring and supporting them, to ensure they achieve the required standards and performance.
Carry out regular audits and inspections to check the quality of cleaning is satisfactory.
Train and coach your team to deliver excellent work.
Plan and organise resourcing of your team.
Implement and manage the attendance management procedure.
Carry out stock audits.
Recruitment and selection of new employees.
Liaise with management to deliver an exceptional service to the force.
What you’ll bring
Excellent planning and organisation skills
A full manual driving licence.
Experience of resourcing and planning work schedules.
The ability to problem-solve quickly.
Great team working skills.
Strong ability to work with a diverse range of people.
Knowledge of cleaning health and safety and COSHH.
Ideally, we’d like you to have supervised people previously, however if you are motivated to learn we’d still love to hear from you.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
What we offer
26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support.
Access to gyms in some stations
Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
Cycle to work scheme
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Cleaning Team Supervisor with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process.Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.