Area
Domestic Services
Location
University Park
Salary
£23,751 to £24,360 per annum, pro rata - £12.60 per hour. Posts will initially be offered at the minimum salary point with progression to the higher salary point achieved through an annual incremental pay rise.
Closing Date
Friday 11 July 2025
Reference
NHE184825
The University of Nottingham has been providing an outstanding student experience for over 140 years and is a leading university of worldwide significance with established campuses in UK, China, and Malaysia. Our award-winning Nottingham campus is only 15 minutes by bus or tram to our vibrant city centre.
Your role as a Cleaner:
We are looking for enthusiastic, reliable, and hardworking people, who have a keen eye for detail and take pride in their work and who enjoy cleaning in a variety of areas to join our team of sports facility cleaners at the David Ross Sports Village based at University Park.
Main duties will include cleaning a wide range of areas/spaces and providing general and specialised cleaning within the building (offices, toilets, bathrooms, changing rooms, staff areas/rooms, corridors, stairwells, fitness facilities, Clinic etc) and providing excellent customer service at all times, working either independently or as a part of a team.
This position entails providing both planned and reactive cleaning service across the building and supporting the local cleaning team with covering holidays, sickness, deep cleaning, and supporting with any urgent requests/inquiries assigned by Line Manager.
Previous cleaning experience within similar environment and ability to work independently and as part of a team are desirable but not essential as full training will be given.
Further details regarding the duties for the role can be found on the attached job role profile.
Hours of Work
7 hours per week, 2 days out of 7 to be arranged (mainly Saturday and Sunday, working between 4.30pm and 8.00m) Flexibility will be required.
This position is offered a permanent basis working on a rolling 52-weeks of the year basis to include student vacation periods.
This position will attract 20% pay uplift allowance for hours worked at the weekend.
What’s in it for you?
- An excellent holiday allowance (27 days for weekdays staff / pro-rata for weekend staff), plus additional university closure days and bank holidays.
- Ongoing support to develop your skills and gain industry recognised qualifications.
- Personal and Career Development support, and opportunities for career progression.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling Service- 24/7 support.
- Supplier discounts, travel, and reward schemes.
- Staff Networks, and wellbeing activities and state of the art sports facilities.
- Permanent contract that includes incremental pay rise.
- Uniform provided plus the tools you need to do a great job.
- Discounted Parking Schemes for staff (Free on-site parking on weekends and between 4.30pm and 9.30am on weekdays).
Successful candidate for this position will be expected to attend statutory training courses and any refresher training required as part of the role. The department have planned training courses throughout the year and there is an option to attend either during a typical week, Monday to Friday or set weekend dates, Saturday and Sunday, within the year. Further details will be given at the interview.
The interviews for these posts are informal and will take no longer than 20 minutes.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to our Estates Recruitment email at
[email protected] Please note that applications sent directly to these email addresses will not be accepted.
Please quote ref. NHE/1014215
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- Job Description/Role Profile
Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. Visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion website.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) employer . Increasing the diversity of our community is extremely important to us and we are committed to the aims of Disability Confident Scheme.
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This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in UK.
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