Job Title: Facilities Caretaker/Cleaner
Responsible to: Congregational Committee with Buildings Group Sub Committee Convenor as Line Manager
Purpose: To carry out caretaking and cleaning duties at the Church Complex
Hours per week: The job is part time (15 hours per week) with some flexibility of working hours. Some evening and weekend work may be required.
Key Areas
Maintain church buildings, grounds and graveyard to the required standard of cleanliness/ finish for use by the congregation and organisations as needed.
Maintain required levels of the various consumables needed to keep the buildings functioning as required, liaising with the administrator when required This will include materials such as
- Toilet and cleaning products
- Heating oil
- Salt/ grit for the car park during cold weather
Cleaning
- Ensure that the Church Complex and grounds are kept clean, tidy and free of litter
- Clean and maintain furniture, fixtures and fixings in the Church Complex to maintain a safe and suitable environment
- Ensure that all external surfaces, drains, drainpipes and gullies, kitchen grease-traps and internal pipework are free flowing and clean
- Ensure that bins are secured, cleaned and in good working order
- Ensure that all litter and recycling bins are emptied on a regular basis
- Provide an ongoing cleaning service to the entire premises to deal with such things as spillage, flooding, toilet cleaning, litter or any cleaning problem associated with weather conditions
- Clean external signs and notices
- Ensure cleaning materials and equipment are kept in good condition, used and stored correctly
- Prepare and clean facilities for required use
- Ensure that all accessible internal and external fixed glass surfaces are cleaned using the appropriate equipment provided to ensure safe working conditions.
Other Duties
- Transport all refuse and recyclable materials to their collection point and implement segregation procedures in compliance with the current Borough Council waste management policy
- Prepare rooms, furniture and equipment in accordance with planned/requested usage including ensuring that heating systems operate as necessary
- Carry out maintenance work, spraying and removal of weeds, hedge trimming in the church grounds
- Ensure that day to day operational issues which are brought to the attention of the post holder are dealt with appropriately.
- Any other duties consistent with the role of caretaker/cleaner and within the competence of the post holder.
- Extraordinary events – Funerals estimated 6-7 per year
- Liaise with funeral director for particular requirements
- Open and close Church building
- Control of heating and other duties as required
- Time - 2 hrs per event
- Extraordinary events – Weddings estimated 3-4 per year
- Liaise with wedding co-ordinator for particular requirements
- Open and close Church building
- Control of heating and other duties as required
- Time - 2 hrs per event
- Extraordinary events – other events – conferences etc
Liaise with organiser for particular requirements
Administration
- Ensure that health and safety issues and defects in equipment are reported immediately to the Property sub committee and that the relevant records are maintained
- Maintain all administrative or clerical records pertinent to the cleaning and caretaking.
Safety & Security
- Apply grit/rock salt in times of snow and frost to ensure pathways, car parks and entrances are free from snow and ice. Maintain record system for gritting.
- Ensure that all areas of the Church Complex which are accessible to staff and visitors are maintained in a safe manner and any hazards or defects are reported to the Property sub committee
- To have knowledge of the positions of all firefighting equipment and their safe and appropriate use in an emergency and carry out weekly testing of equipment
- To have knowledge of emergency procedures including building evacuation and contact routines. Have regard for your own health and safety and that of all using the premises and grounds.
Building Services
- Operate as directed, the computerised controls for church heating systems
- Report any problems (e.g. heating, lighting, building damage) to the Property sub committee
- Monitor water, electricity meter and other utility readings as directed
- Facilitate Engineers testing fire and intruder alarm systems and lift inspections as required.
- Facilitate Council Health and Safety inspections
- Inspect and report any defects in firefighting equipment.
The above list of duties is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive but outlines the general requirements of the post. Other duties may arise of a more general nature which is consistent with the job title and the salary attached to this post.
Person specification/key competencies
The Jobholder must:
- Be able to reflect the ethos and mission of the Presbyterian Church in all dealings with staff, church members and visitors
- Be able to effectively manage schedules of work
- Have good interpersonal skills
- Be able to work with a team of voluntary helpers
- Be well motivated, proactive and able to work with minimal supervision
- Show an awareness of health and safety procedures
- Be able to climb stairs, use ladders and step ladders safely, and do medium to heavy work including lifting and moving of furniture
- The successful applicant will be required to undertake a successful Access NI check.
- Demonstrate willingness to work flexible hours
- Lives sufficiently convenient to the premises to be able to respond to open and closing and emergency call outs.
- Demonstrate a sufficient level of computer literacy to operate the computerised controls of church heating systems. The ability to develop the skills to use other systems in the church building ( e.g. AV + sound desk) would be useful
Training
- Undertake any training deemed relevant to the post.
Moira Presbyterian Church is a Registered Charity and an Equal Opportunity Employer
Registered Charity Number: NIC 105174
To request an application form apply by email to [email protected]
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £12.50 per hour
Expected hours: 15 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 30/06/2025
