Cleaning Team Leader

Medequipuk; Newport; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community equipment services provider in Newport seeks a Cleaning Team Leader to ensure cleanliness and hygiene in the depot. You will lead a team to maintain high standards while participating in stocktakes and managing cleaning supplies. Candidates should have team leadership experience and ideally be from a similar industry. The role offers 29 days holiday, professional development, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

29 days holiday increasing to 33 days

Continued professional development

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Access to Perkbox discount platform

Free uniform

Free DBS check

Qualifications

• Experience in a team leader or managerial role.
• Ideally experience in a similar industry.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all areas and products are cleaned efficiently.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly stocktakes.
• Manage levels of cleaning material stock.
• Maintain a high standard of cleanliness in compliance with regulations.

Skills

Team leadership experience

Attention to hygiene and cleanliness

Knowledge of cleaning equipment

Ability to follow health and safety guidelines

Job description

Cleaning Team Leader

Newport

Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £28,430 per annum (£13.67 per hour)

This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward‑thinking community equipment services provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field!

Join us as our new Cleaning Team Leader at Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd and let us empower you to truly make a difference.

Our continued employee development programmes, internal training and exceptional leadership will give you the ability to continuously develop yourself professionally whilst providing person‑centred support.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever‑developing co‑workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values.

Who are Medequip?

Medequip is the leading provider of medical equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer.

About the role

As the Cleaning Team Leader for Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd you will be responsible for providing the highest levels of cleanliness and hygiene within the depot and warehouse.

Your day‑to‑day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Have full knowledge of all areas and products which are to be cleaned
• Ensure all areas and products are cleaned efficiently and in a timely manner
• Participate in monthly stocktakes, perpetual inventory stocktakes, and full quarterly stocktakes.
• Have full working knowledge of all cleaning equipment, materials and agents
• Ensure that all paperwork, storage, and stock counting are completed
• Follow the company’s guidelines for dealing with scrap equipment disposal and follow the health and safety guidelines regarding the control of hazardous substances.
• Maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and appearance and general cleanliness to comply with statutory and company regulations
• Manage levels of cleaning material stock
• Ensure all cleaning equipment is kept clean & maintained in safe working order.

About you

Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:

• We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
• We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity and kindness.
• We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers and customers.
• We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
• We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
• We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
• We deliver cost‑effective, efficient and safe healthcare solutions.

Qualifications and experience required.

• Experience in a team leader or managerial role
• Ideally experience in a similar industry

What we offer

• 29 days holiday moving to a max of 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Continued professional development, training and learning support and opportunities for career progression.
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Care First employee assistance programme including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform
• Free uniform
• Free DBS check

We welcome applications from all sections of the Community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know.

We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip’s Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.

This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.