Cleaner – Residential Services
Location: Lyndhurst
Department: Residential Services
Hours: 2 hours a day, 2 days a week
Hourly Rate: £12.25 per hour
About the Role
We are looking for a reliable and motivated Cleaner to help maintain excellent standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and safety across our Residential service. You’ll ensure our communal areas, staff spaces, kitchens, and equipment remain clean, welcoming, and compliant with all infection control and food safety standards.
This role is perfect for someone who enjoys creating a spotless environment and takes pride in their work.
Key responsibilities:
- Clean fridges, including the medication room fridge
- Dust door frames, skirting boards, lights, pictures, and stair rails
- Hoover floors, stairs, and communal areas
- Clean bathrooms, foyers, porches, and fire escape stairs
- Keep sheds tidy and report issues
- Complete occasional gardening or car cleaning tasks
- Clean and disinfect kitchen bins and appliances
- Deep clean the kitchen and ovens according to the schedule
- Descale kettles
- Clean washing machines and tumble dryer filters
- Maintain hygienic food preparation and storage areas
- Wash medication tabards, aprons, and gloves
- Follow all infection control and health & safety procedures
- Use cleaning products and PPE safely
- Participate in training and follow organisational policies
About you:
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Self‑motivated and dependable
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- A good listener with a positive attitude
- Experience is beneficial
What Benefits can we offer you?
- 33 days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays pro rata
- Refer-a-Friend scheme worth £750!
- A Celebration Day’s Leave for Your Birthday pro rata
- Death in Service Insurance
- Company Pension
- An easy to access Health Care Scheme
- Cycle to Work
- Free Parking on-site
- Blue Light Card Eligibility
- Furzey Gardens Membership
- Hanger Farm Membership
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Company Sick Pay
If you would like to apply for this role please fill out the Online Application Form
As a trust, our mission is to support people with learning disabilities to fully develop their individual potential by providing opportunities, enhancing life skills, ensuring informed choice, and influencing society.
- We appreciate each person. Everyone is different – we respect and celebrate this.
- We’re always learning. We all have something to offer and more to learn.
- We’re always improving. Striving to give our best and to have more impact.
- We push for change. We will challenge society to be fully inclusive.
- We find the joy in everyday life. We have the freedom to be ourselves and enjoy what we do.
We are not licensed to sponsor employees for visas; therefore, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. You need to have, or be able to obtain, right to work in the UK in order to take up this position.
All staff working for, or on behalf of Minstead Trust, understand their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults at risk and know who to escalate concerns to within Minstead Trust.
Due to the nature of this employment sector your application is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
No terminology in the advert you have seen is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we will gladly accept applications from all sections of the community.
We are only able to accept direct applications at this time; no agencies please.