Cleaner

Job details

Job reference

REQ8610

• Date posted
• 21/10/2026
• Application closing date
• 04/11/2026
• Location
• Various locations across Leicester City
• Salary
• £25,614 Per Year

Package

• Blank
• Contractual hours
• 37
• Basis
• Full time
• Job category/type
• City Services
• Cleaner

Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Join our dynamic Building cleaning team to play a key role in keeping our buildings, workspaces, and its surroundings to the highest standard of cleanliness.

This role will be based at both Haymarket Bus Station & St Margerets Bus station. Weekends and bank holidays working is required. Hours range from 7:00am - 22:30pm.

What you’ll be doing

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll complete various cleaning tasks. This can vary from basic washing to sweeping, mopping and vacuum cleaning office spaces. In addition, you’ll be required to empty litter bins, polish, and dust designated areas and surfaces, fixtures, and fittings, both internally and externally. This will also include toilets, showers, changing areas and associated facilities.

What you’ll need

As a person, you’ll take pride in completing tasks to an excellent level and has a reasonable level of fitness because this is a physically demanding role. With knowledge of health and safety regulations you'll be able to use and maintain cleaning equipment including vacuums. In addition, you’ll able to work well independently as well as successfully within a team, being a great team player who is able to be flexible and get stuck in.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For an informal conversation please contact Mandy Harlow at [email protected]

Interviews will take place on Thursday 12th November 2026.