Office Cleaning job Dartford DA1 cleaner required

We currently have a part time key job cleaning vacancy / job in Priory Hill
DA1 Kent

You must have an excellent attention to detail, be extremely fastidious and be able to work to high standards everyday.

Please tell us of any qualifications and if you have been CRB checked.

Apply now by phoning Ann on 01277 566600 between 9 - 5pm or completing this form  - please state which job you are applying for.

Essex Cleaning jobs and vacancies

Office Cleaning jobs and vacancies in Essex

ICS provide expert advice and offer a comprehensive range of Chelmsford and Brentwood cleaning services for companies in Essex and the Cm1 and Cm postcodes. We are currently recruiting cleaners in and around Essex.

We are always on the lookout for exceptional cleaners to deliver our outstanding cleaning services in Essex - 

We currently have cleaning vacancies in Widford Industrial Estate Chelmsford Cm1 - Monday to Friday early morning

We are looking for cleaners in Billericay  - key job Monday to Friday

Mobile Cleaning Staff for various cleaning contracts in and around Essex and London.

You must have an excellent attention to detail, be extremely fastidious and be able to work to high standards everyday. Previous experience required. 

Please tell us of any qualifications and if you have been CRB checked.

Apply now by filling in our cleaners job and vacancies form

You must be presentable, trustworthy, and hardworking, have cleaning experience, have a good command of English, live or be able to get the sites be able to clean high standards.

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Cleaners and their well being?

The below excerpt is from sage, a dinosaur UK based accounting software company, who made their money on the back of ms access and then by charging extortionate prices in annual support fees because the program is so awful to use.



Happiness and wellbeing amongst employees should be considered a key factor for businesses keen to sustain a positive and productive workforce.
The virtues of a happy, stimulated and content workforce cannot be undervalued, even at this time of economic uncertainty. As businesses are being forced to downsize, employees are being asked to produce more with less resources, often adding pressure onto the employee.

You are ultimately responsible for creating an environment where employees feel cared for and considered, not overworked and overlooked. Flexible working should be implemented where possible, reducing long hours in the office and giving a sense of autonomy, ultimately creating a climate of trust.

Formal and informal communication is critical and you must nurture a working environment where people are encouraged to speak freely and share their concerns, ideas and opinions.

Most office cleaning companies and cleaning companies are already experts at motivating staff, who really wants to clean someone else's toilet right? Let alone a commercial one. So apparently happiness and wellbeing is to be considered an important factor whilst working, who doesn't feel a sense of wellbeing and inordinate happiness whilst cleaning someone else's bog?

Asides from the fact that people who write this type of garbage are living in cuckoo land, it does make me ponder why it is ok to treat cleaners so awfully.

Example? Hundreds, everyday seems to bring lower standards in acceptable treatment of cleaners and cleaning companies.

Ask any cleaning company and they will tell you that they are long used to being treated as a kicking ball, we are resolutely at the bottom of the rung, the boss lays out some schtick, this works its way down eventually until we poor sods get an hollering at some trivial oversight.

As we try to explain, cleaners along with everyone else are not perfect, but most are trying to do an awful job with bad pay in the best way that they can, but clients are not interested in hearing this.
In an instant, as soon as a single bin has been missed, they are ranting on the phone, emailing with double and triple explanation marks, they use language like, wholly unacceptable and we are extremely unhappy with the service. If a fingermark is missed on the receptionist desk, how about wiping it off and getting on with a days work, hell no, lets get on the blower and berate the cleaner - not good enough, I am extremely dissatisfied, blah, blah.

If given the option many would judging by their language, tone and anger quite happily line us and the cleaners against the wall.

Clients need to remember they chose the lowest bid (always) pay next to nothing for a job they are not willing to do themselves and maybe try counting to 10. We are all just trying to do the best we can.

Low pay, low standards? Why is cleaning so price driven?

As the usual debate goes on about the increase to minimum wage and how that affects the economy and jobs, I thought I would look at a broader issue for cleaners and the cleaning industry.

Low pay, low standards? Why is cleaning so price driven? Why is cleaning never seen as a professional job in its own right with the usual associated pay and conditions? Lots of whys right?

Cleaning is just a dead end job that people who cant find other work or are in between other jobs or due to some set of circumstances do? Right? Well some would agree...

The following is from a business forum  -

Small business owners getting rich from paying staff peanuts?? yeah right

Floor Sweeper £8.50 per hour Has it not occured to you that if you pay the floor sweeper £8.50 per hour then the warehouse staff for instance would want £10-12 per hour, the forklift truckdriver on £10 would then want £15 per hour, the manager would then want upwards of £35k!

To employe your floor sweeper a small shop for instance would be shelling out around £21k a year if you include employers NI


There is a valid argument here and ties in with skilled workers vs non skilled workers and their corresponding pay. However one could argue that cleaners would indeed be more skilled and the industry more professional if they were paid higher wages.

The argument of comparing non skilled workers vs skilled workers may have some validity with comparing a surgeon with a truck driver but does the same hold true when comparing a cleaner with a forklift driver?

Why is cleaning seen as purely a non skilled sector and a dead end job. For many people it suits them ideally, particularly if its part time job which they can fit round other parts of their life, such as childcare, education other work commitments etc.

If clients were willing to pay higher rates (and in my opinion this is the crucial factor) then cleaners  could be sent on more courses - yes professional cleaning is more than just pushing a vacuum cleaner around, standards and keeping and recruiting good professional cleaning staff would be much easier.

Clients demand a professional service but wish to pay extremely low prices which makes it impossible to pay professional pay which means cleaning will never be a profession, and so it goes, and so it goes.

This is an interesting area that we as cleaning companies cannot delve too deeply into, do you want the work or not will be the client’s response, then do it at the lowest price.

Clients want their premises cleaned to the highest standards, a job they are not usually prepared to do themselves, they also want someone reliable, trustworthy, professional, conscientious but then are only prepared to pay way less than what they would ever consider working for, herein lies the contradiction.

Professional rates means you can have professionals.

Paying cleaners higher wages

As a cleaning company both affect us, but my question is would you be willing to pay substantially more - somewhere in the region of 25% if the cleaner was to receive the London Living Wage?(the money to go to the cleaners not the contractor)

As a bit of background, I do feel cleaners should be paid more but also realise times are extremely tough. However when times weren't so tough I tried some years back to push the fact that we were going to pay the cleaners more but this would entail slightly higher rates and pointed out all the benefits, after 6 months I had to stop this as we weren't winning any business at all, nada, niente, rien, zip.

The pluses are clear I would have thought to most people; cleaners are not so transient on higher wages, its easier to recruit and keep better cleaners, cleaners feel more valued, you could actually get professional people for professional pay etc.

It has in fact gone the other way in London, there is very little possibility of winning any work unless its at the lowest possible rate hence we all have to pay min wage to survive, and many jobs are simply not worth taking on at the rates clients are willing to pay and of course even then they expect the best possible service. The rates are far lower than 20/25 years ago for both cleaning companies and cleaners alike.

So would you be willing to put your hand in your pocket if the cleaner was to get higher wages and if not why not?