Cleaner

Porchlight provides safe and supportive accommodation to people experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, or other vulnerabilities. We're looking for a reliable, professional cleaner to help us maintain welcoming, hygienic, and safe environments across our supported housing and office locations.

This role involves a mix of routine and ad hoc cleaning tasks in communal areas, void properties, and office spaces. You’ll play a key part in ensuring our homes and workplaces are clean, comfortable, and dignified for residents, staff, and visitors.

The role requires:

• Someone dependable, practical, and empathetic.
• Confidence working alone.
• Understanding of the importance of cleanliness and infection control.
• Being comfortable engaging professionally with vulnerable residents.
• Driver with own transport.

Porchlight is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.

Working pattern: 22.5 hours per week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Location type: On-site

Contract type: Permanent

Interview date: 13th November 2026

Please note, salaries are pro-rata for part-time positions.

Our application form and interview process have been designed to assess your transferable skills rather than direct experience. This helps remove barriers for people who may have the right values, abilities, and potential but may not have formal experience in the role they’re applying for. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Please have a look at the application guidance and job description at the bottom of the page to give you the best chance of being shortlisted.

For further information about the role, or to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager, please contact Alex Swan on 07525 990241 or email [email protected].

For any further information regarding the application process please contact [email protected]

Porchlight is a charity supporting people who are homeless, vulnerable, and isolated. At Porchlight, we are passionate about helping vulnerable people to reach their full potential. We strive for a fairer society where vulnerable people find stability, the most excluded are included, and where homelessness and poverty are things of the past.

Porchlight is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Porchlight is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.