Cleaner

Are you passionate about maintaining high standards and creating welcoming spaces? Join us at the Field Studies Council, a leading environmental education charity, as a Cleaner at our Epping Forest learning location., As our Cleaner, you play a vital role in ensuring our learning location is clean, tidy, and ready to inspire visitors. You'll help contribute to a friendly, welcoming atmosphere while maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness across our public areas, staff facilities, classrooms, and toilets. You will be adaptable to the changing environment of our learning location and be happy to help where required, this may include undertaking other duties including assisting with general maintenance to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the learning location. Please refer to the vacancy pack on our website for further details on the full responsibilities of this role. Where you'll be based Field Studies Council Epping Forest is situated in the heart of Epping Forest, an area of around 2,400 hectares of wood-pasture stretching from Manor Park in East London to just north of Epping in Essex. Two thirds of the Forest have been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). Our purpose built, fully accessible centre has six classrooms, and associated facilities, with direct access into our teaching sites which include woodland, grassland, heath, and river.

Ideally, you'll have delivered high standards of customer service before, cleaning experience will be helpful, but it's not essential. The expectations of every employee that we regard as important include:

• A great work ethic where aptitude and attitude are key
• A natural pride in the work you produce
• A flexible and adaptive approach able to perform using your own initiative both independently and as a team player
• A professional manner in all that you do
• An empathy with the aims and objectives of Field Studies Council
• A committed and proactive approach to personal development; motivated to learn new skills and overcome new challenges
  
  Permanent Part time contract - based on average 15 hours per week (3 hours per day, Monday to Friday). Hours are flexible, ideally between 4:00pm and 7:00pm, with possible adjustments during school holidays.
• Salary equates to circa £11.44 per hour
• Excellent benefits - including life assurance and a health cash plan, see the full list below.
Love where you work! Established in 1943, our network of Learning Locations provides day and residential outdoor education courses for all ages. We aim to create outstanding opportunities for everyone to learn about nature. We value each of our team members and understand that every role is vital to deliver our mission, so, we provide great benefits
• to reward and support you while you work with us., Financial - We offer competitive salaries, sick pay, pension schemes, life assurance 5 x your annual basic salary, pro rata of 28 days annual holiday entitlement plus bank holidays and a further 2 extra loyalty days dependent on length of service.
• Health and Wellbeing - Eligible employees are automatically provided with a Health Cash Plan which you can use to help pay for routine health appointments as well as give you the ability to seek second opinions from top doctors! We also provide our team members with access to a 24hr Counselling Helpline Service.
• Discounts - When you join the team you are also enrolled into our reward programme which gives you discounts on your favourite brands and opportunities to earn cash back on everyday purchases!
• Additional benefits - We endeavour to offer flexible working options where roles permit and are committed to providing our employees with appropriate quality learning and development opportunities.