Cleaning Team Leader (Residential)

Department: Estates and Facilities Directorate
Salary: £27,979 - £30,685 per annum (pro rata) (Grade 2)
Reference: 2657
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 25 June 2024
Closing date: 8 July 2024

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Overview

About the Role

The successful candidate will lead a large highly motivated Cleaning Operatives to ensure we deliver a high standard cleaning service to our Queen Mary’s buildings.

We currently have 20hr and 30hr per week positions at our Mile End campus (Monday to Friday 5am-9am or 9am-3pm).

About You

• You should be passionate about delivering a first-class cleaning service to Queen Mary.
• Hold a Vocational qualification in Cleaning and Support Services or equivalent relevant cleaning experience.
• You should have previous experience of leading a cleaning team.
• You should be able to plan and organise the daily duties of the service teams, producing and monitoring rota’s ensuring a fair and effective distribution of work and to make adjustments, as and when required, in line with operational needs.
• To monitor the performance of staff and contribute to annual appraisals.
• To ensure the reporting and recording of staff absence in accordance with Queen Mary Absence Management policies, carrying out return to work meetings as required.
• To ensure all staff are adequately trained to carry out cleaning and waste removal tasks to an acceptable level.

About the Directorate

The Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the College, and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the University’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders, and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness.  

Details about the Estates and Facilities Directorate can be found at http://www.estates.qmul.ac.uk/

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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