Cleaner

About the role

To undertake all cleaning duties within Herbert Parkinson maintaining high hygiene standards and cleanliness in all areas. To support the team in carrying out additional tasks commensurate with your skills and capabilities.

Delivering high-quality customer service is essential and a flexible approach to working hours will be necessary.

In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £3.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Responsibilities, Skills and Experience

Contract type - Permanent

Location - Herbert Parkinson - Darwen, Lancashire

Hours - Monday to Friday, 2 hours per day 3pm - 5pm

Key Responsibilities:

• To maintain high levels of housekeeping throughout the branch and Partner garden area.

• To include cleaning of main and auxiliary toilets, mopping, checking stock levels and ensuring all stock levels are maintained.

• Cleaning of offices, dusting, vacuuming, polishing and regular checking of air conditioning filters.

• To maintain high levels of cleanliness in the Partner Dining Room, including floor cleaning, mopping, high level dusting, clearing of refuse, and transport of refuse to suitable recycling or waste skips.

• General clearing of refuse & recycling bins around the branch and general litter picking around the perimeter of the branch, branch yard and branch car park.

• To ensure all meeting rooms are stocked with the necessary equipment, dirty crockery removed to the kitchen and rooms cleaned, polished and vacuumed following the weekly rota.

• To clean all glass and mirrors throughout the branch where necessary and according to the rota.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Have a good work ethic

• Be able to work as an individual as well as working collaboratively with colleagues

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Previous cleaning experience or current qualifications (training will be given)

The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Cleaner

• Darwen - Herbert Parkinson
• 05/11/2026
• £13.00 (£13.25 After 90 days)
• Permanent
• 10
• Partnership Level 10