Cleaner and facilities operative
Keeping offices, schools, hospitals and factories clean and safe. Available everywhere, often part time, and frequently a way into a bigger facilities team.
Also called: Domestic assistant, housekeeper, janitor
What it pays
£11.44 to £13 an hour, more for specialist, night or industrial cleaning.
The hours
Very flexible: early mornings, evenings, weekends, part time and full time.
How you get in
- No qualifications needed
- DBS check for schools and healthcare
- COSHH awareness given by the employer
The tickets and qualifications employers ask for
COSHH Working at height for window and high level work BICSc training for specialist contracts Infection control in healthcare
What you should not be paying for
Employers provide the training. You should never pay for cleaning induction training.
What people like about it
- Hours that fit around anything else
- Work in every town and every sector
- Straightforward, and you can see what you have done
What is genuinely hard
- Pay is at or near minimum in most contracts
- Split shifts and unsocial hours
- Contract changes can move your employer overnight, though TUPE protects you
Where it leads
- Supervisor
- Mobile or specialist cleaning
- Facilities assistant
- Contract manager
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