Corporate
Outdoor and Environmental Education Service
Ref: G3/OL-91632
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,893 - £25,979 p.a.
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: Castleshaw Centre, Waterworks Road, Delph, Oldham, OL3 5LZ
Closing date: Sunday 21st April 2024
Shortlisting: week commencing 22nd April 2024
Interview Dates: week commencing 29th April 2024
Job Description and Person Specification.docx
Role overview
Responsible to the Service Manager for providing a flexible housekeeping service at the Castleshaw Centre, in order to ensure efficient service delivery to Schools, the Youth Service, and other customers.
Key responsibilities
- Organise the safe and efficient running of the Castleshaw Centre building and grounds with support and supervision from the service manager.
- Carry out cleaning assignments in the centre, ensuring that the building is kept clean, tidy and safe for our customers, and supervise any casual staff assisting with domestic tasks.
- Undertake porterage and light maintenance duties as required. Pro-actively monitor and report building and grounds maintenance issues that cannot be handled in house.
- Undertake other housekeeping duties as required for residential and day visit groups, including the planning of good quality nutritious meal menus, purchasing food, preparing and serving meals, washing up and ensuring that adequate stocks of clean linen are available by delivering to and collecting from the laundry.
- Arrange for both routine and non-routine opening and closing of the centre and grounds and attend the site outside of normal working hours in emergencies, liaising with the emergency services as required.
- To be an identified key holder for the centre’s buildings and grounds.
Key Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:
- The ability to plan and cook a range of well balanced, nutritious, good quality, meals for visiting groups.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS (and a Certificate of Good Conduct where you have lived abroad for 12 months or more in the last 10 years).
If you would like support with this application, an interview or interested in looking at any courses that could help with this position please get in touch with Get Oldham Working - Get Oldham Working registration form - Oldham Council
NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).
Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.
This opportunity is open to internal and external applicants and registered applications of the Get Oldham Working scheme. However, where a meaningful shortlist can be drawn from internal applications in the first instance, and residents of Oldham subsequently, these applicants shall be given priority access to the vacancy in line with the Council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy.
Please state if you are Registered to the Get Oldham Working scheme or an Oldham Resident in the Knowledge and Experience section of the application form.
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