Cleaning Team Supervisor
Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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Salary: | £26,106 to £26,403 per year |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 07 October 2025 |
Location: | South Shields, Tyne & Wear |
Remote working: | On-site only |
Company: | Northumbria Police |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | PS6601 |
Summary
Location: South Shields
Hours/Contract: Permanent, Full Time
This role will be working 37 hours, 6am-2pm Monday to Friday, predominantly based at Millbank, South Shields, but will cover various locations across Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Tyneside. (Vehicle provided)
Working for #TeamNP
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Business Services Department as a Cleaning Supervisor.
Our Business Services team keep things running smoothly for all of us here at Northumbria Police. They are a large team covering various services, including maintenance, health and safety, and supporting Front Line Policing. Sound like a team you’d like to work with? This could be the perfect time to join us as a Cleaning Team Supervisor.
Our Cleaning team are responsible for ensuring our buildings are clean and safe for employees, visitors, and members of the public. In this role you’ll be supervising a team of cleaners, making sure they meet service delivery standards and adhere to health and safety regulations.
What you’ll do
Manage your team by mentoring and supporting them, to ensure they achieve the required standards and performance.
Carry out regular audits and inspections to check the quality of cleaning is satisfactory.
Train and coach your team to deliver excellent work.
Plan and organise resourcing of your team.
Implement and manage the attendance management procedure.
Carry out stock audits.
Recruitment and selection of new employees.
Liaise with management to deliver an exceptional service to the force.
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description
What you’ll bring
Excellent planning and organisation skills
A full manual driving licence (vehicle provided).
Experience of resourcing and planning work schedules.
The ability to problem-solve quickly.
Great team working skills.
Strong ability to work with a diverse range of people.
Knowledge of cleaning health and safety and COSHH.
Ideally, we’d like you to have supervised people previously, however if you are motivated to learn we’d still love to hear from you.
Just so you know
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
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