We Are Hiring: Cleaner

We’re looking for a friendly, reliable person to join our team at St Anne’s House as our Cleaner. This is a brand-new role as we bring our cleaning in-house, and it’s a great opportunity for someone who takes real pride in keeping a space looking and feeling great.

St Anne’s House is a busy, welcoming community building with a café, work spaces and regular events, so no two days look quite the same. You’ll be part of a small, friendly team and will get to know the building well.

We’d love to hear from people with cleaning experience living in St Anne’s, Brislington, and the surrounding area, but we also welcome applicants from further afield.

If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Main Purpose of the Role

St Annes House is a vibrant community and work space at the heart of Bristol. This role ensures the building remains a clean and welcoming environment for staff, tenants, and visitors. The role also includes responsibility for keeping the building’s exterior and grounds neat and tidy.

Hours

Hours are spread across three to four days per week and include a mix of early morning and weekend slots to ensure cleaning takes place at the building’s quietest times. There is some flexibility in how hours are structured and this will be agreed with the successful candidate. A suggested working pattern is:

• Monday, 4 hours (8:00am – 12:00pm)
• Wednesday, 4 hours ( 6:00am – 10:00am)
• Friday or Weekend, 4 hours (6:00am – 10:00am or flexible on the weekend)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Internal Cleaning

Responsible for cleaning:

• Reception and entrance
• Main staircase, side staircase, landings and corridors
• Ground floor hireable rooms (not including the cafe kitchen)
• Co-working space (second floor)
• Upstairs kitchen
• All toilets and bathrooms

Cleaning tasks across these areas include vacuuming and mopping floors, wiping surfaces, sanitising door handles and touch points, cleaning mirrors, removing cobwebs, dusting radiators and skirting boards, emptying bins, and keeping walls free of scuff marks. Some tasks are carried out every visit; others on a fortnightly or monthly rotation. Cleaning should be planned and carried out at considerate times to minimise disruption to building users and avoid tenants walking over wet floors

Consumables, Restocking & Waste

• Responsible for ensuring the following are always adequately stocked: toilet roll, hand towels and hand soap in all toilets.
• Report to the Facilities Coordinator if any cleaning supplies are running low.
• Ensure all bins are emptied on a regular basis

Security & Lockup

• Ensure all doors are locked and not propped open when the building is unoccupied.
• Ensure windows are closed and latched when not in use
• Switch off all lights when leaving
• Ensure all cleaning equipment and products are stored away safely.

Exterior

Maintain a clean and tidy appearance for the exterior of the building and surrounding grounds, including:

• Sweeping and clearing the entrance, steps, and pathways of litter, leaves, and debris.
• Keeping bin areas tidy and returning bins after collection.

General Requirements

• Carry out all duties in line with health and safety requirements.
• Use cleaning products correctly and safely in accordance with COSHH guidelines.
• Maintain confidentiality and act professionally at all times whilst on the premises.
• Wear appropriate clothing and any PPE provided.

Other duties

• Other duties relating to the post as mutually agreed.
• Supporting the wider Bricks team to meet the charities objectives.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Previous experience in a cleaning role
• Ability to work independently and use your own initiative.
• Reliable and punctual.
• Good attention to detail.
• Ability to carry out light physical tasks such as lifting, bending, and sweeping.
• Good communication skills.

Desirable

• Lives locally to St Anne’s House.
• Awareness of COSHH and safe use of cleaning products.

TO APPLY

How to apply

Bricks strives to promote equality and diversity at all levels of our team. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive in our ways of working, and to being a place where all belong. We value diversity and inclusion and therefore particularly encourage applications from you if you are from a background that is underrepresented in the arts and culture sector, for example if you are from a community that experiences racism or you are a disabled person (as defined by the Equalities Act 2010), you did not go to University or had free school meals as a child.

We believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and want to welcome the whole person to work. Our staff are not appointed to represent specific groups or organisations, but to represent themselves and their own experiences and perspectives.

Pre application

– If you require this job description in another format please contact us at hr@bricksbristol.org

– FAQ will be listed on this document

– If your question is not answered on the FAQ document, please email hr@bricksbristol.org with your question.

Application

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the personal statement section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

You can view a copy of our applicants privacy notice here

You can use video/audio as part of your application in place of the personal statement, which can be up to 5 minutes long. Please email hr@bricksbristol.org for more information.

Please also fill in the monitoring form. This is anonymous and kept separate from your application.

We welcome feedback on how we can improve our recruitment processes, you can do this via email to hr@bricksbristol.org or via this anonymous form: here.