Cleaner - Care & Custody

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
York
TYPE
Part-time
LEVEL
Entry-level
CATEGORY
Cleaning & Facilities
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Cleaning Health & Safety COSHH regulations Customer service Interpersonal skills Teamwork Self-motivation Integrity

FULL DESCRIPTION

Cleaner - Care & Custody

Role: Cleaning Operative
Hours: 16 Hours/Week
Location: HMP Millsike, York

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Cleaning Operative who will support the vision for HMP Millsike as a place of restoration and rehabilitation, helping to maintain a safe, clean, and uplifting environment for prisoners and staff.

Role Responsibilities

  • Carry out cleaning tasks to a high standard, ensuring all areas of the establishment remain clean, hygienic, and presentable.
  • Stock and maintain supply rooms, ensuring all materials are stored appropriately and available when required.
  • Follow Health & Safety and COSHH regulations, including disinfecting and deep cleaning tasks when necessary.
  • Report any incidents, defects, or dangers to the supervisor promptly and accurately.
  • Maintain a strong focus on health and safety in all work undertaken.

Required Qualifications

  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Strong customer service skills, with the ability to represent the service professionally in every task attended.
  • A proactive, self‑motivated attitude with the ability to use initiative.
  • Flexibility within contracted hours and commitment to a strong ‘can do' approach.
  • High moral standards and absolute integrity, suitable for working in a secure environment.

(A background in cleaning is advantageous, but full training will be provided.)

What's in it for you?

  • Blue Light Card
  • Access to on-site gym
  • Free parking, including electric vehicle charging points
  • Subsidised on-site meals

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]).

We award our employees with [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Christian Kalugin at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].

Since 1987, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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