Part Time / 15 Hours Per Week / PermanentWould you like to work in Leicester’s best live entertainment venues? Are you enthusiastic and passionate about providing a great customer experience at De Montfort Hall and Haymarket Theatre?De Montfort Hall is situated at the edge of the city's Victoria Park and has acted as a cultural beacon for the people of Leicester, Leicestershire and beyond for nearly 110 years. Since its opening in 1913, the hall and gardens has held music concerts, royal visits, comedy shows, company dances, pantos and so much more. Putting on circa 250 performances per year, it is a vibrant and exciting place to work with a real diverse variety of live shows and events.The Haymarket Theatre is situated in Leicester City Centre next to the Haymarket Shopping Centre and was opened in 1974 until 2007 as a working Theatre. The Theatre is currently used as a Dance School with occasional evening Dance shows.Join us as a Cleaner and you’ll be a part of a welcoming and friendly team. You’ll work in a busy, fast paced environment to work with the Front of House Supervisors to ensure the safety of our customers and venues before, during and after the event or show by ensuring that De Montfort Hall and Haymarket Theatres are always clean.This is a part-time, permanent post working 15 hours per week. You’ll be required to work on a variety of shifts, across both venues, that will also fit in with show times, but general shift patterns are 5 days from 7 at 07:00 to 10:00, with occasional afternoons and evenings. There will also be a regular Saturday afternoon shift at the Haymarket Theatre.What you’ll be doingWorking on site you’ll carry out the cleaners role working flexibly around show times and events. You’ll liaise with our site supervisors who will issue you our cleaning matrixes for you to follow. Using basic tools and equipment, your day-to-day tasks will include, but not be limited to, cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, emptying litter bins, polishing and deep cleaning designated areas both internal and external. In addition, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that any spillages are cleaned up immediately contributing to the safety of customers and other staff members.What you’ll needAs a person, you’ll take pride in completing tasks to an excellent level and has a reasonable level of cleaning experience this could be within a private sector or public sector. With knowledge of health and safety regulations you'll be able to use and maintain cleaning equipment including vacuums. In addition, you’ll able to work well independently as well as successfully within a team, being a great team player who is willing to be flexible and get stuck in. You’ll have excellent verbal communication skills and the ability to act professional at all times. Within this role, it’s important that you’re physically fit enough to carry the cleaning equipment. In addition, you’ll need to be able to work flexibly around hours and shifts.What we can offer youAs well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.Join usWe’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Paul Oliver on paul.oliver@leicester.gov.ukInterviews/assessments will take place on Thursday 25th September or Thursday 2nd October 2025.
