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Cleaners work in offices, schools, hotels and hospitals. They also do more specialised work like upholstery or conservatory cleaning.
You could work: evenings / weekends; on split shifts
As a cleaner, you could:
You may need to wear a uniform.
You could work at a client's home, at a client's business, in an NHS or private hospital or at a school.
Your working environment may be dirty.
You can get into this job through:
You could do a college course in cleaning or cleaning principles to get some of the skills and knowledge you'll need in this job.
You could apply to do a Cleaning Hygiene Operative Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship.
This is useful if you want to work in hospitals, care homes or other places that need to be cleaned to a very high standard.
You'll usually need:
You can apply for jobs with cleaning companies, car valeting services or organisations that employ their own cleaners.
There are no set entry requirements, but you'll need to show that you're reliable and able to do the job.
If you're looking for specialised cleaning work, for instance in a medical setting, it can help to have some experience.
You'll need to:
If you want to work as a window cleaner on tall buildings like office blocks, it can help if you've completed training in rope access work or operating a mobile platform, though this is not essential.
You can find out more about careers in cleaning from the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc).
With experience, you could:move into specialist cleaning services; become a supervisor or manager; start your own business