Cleaner

A Contract Catering Cleaner ensures that dining areas, kitchens, and food service locations meet high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and health and safety regulations. This role often involves a combination of general cleaning (sweeping, mopping, polishing) and specific catering support tasks, such as cleaning kitchen equipment, washing dishes, or managing waste disposal.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Cleaning and Sanitation: Cleaning, polishing, and mopping floors; vacuuming carpets; cleaning toilets, offices, and windows.
• Kitchen/Dining Cleaning: Deep cleaning kitchen areas, sanitizing touchpoints, cleaning ovens, and wiping surfaces.
• Waste Management: Emptying, cleaning, and sanitizing rubbish bins and disposing of waste safely.
• Food Service Support: Washing dishes, utensils, and large catering equipment.
• Operational Support: Setting up and moving dining furniture, cleaning tables, and maintaining stock levels of cleaning supplies.
• Compliance: Following all health, safety, and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations.
• Reporting: Informing supervisors of equipment defects or hygiene issues.

Key Requirements

• Experience: Previous experience in a cleaning or catering role is often preferred but not always essential.
• Skills: Strong attention to detail, reliability, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Flexibility: Availability to work different shifts, which may include early mornings, evenings, and weekends.
• Physical Fitness: Capability to operate cleaning machinery and perform manual tasks like lifting.
• Certifications: Sometimes require a PVG scheme membership or similar background checks for work in schools or sensitive sites.