Retail Security Officer
Full Time
Public Area Cleaners
Our roles
Hospitality
Posted 1 month ago
The first impression every guest gets — lobbies, corridors, and restrooms kept to standard throughout the day.
The role
Public Area Cleaners (often called House Persons in larger hotels) maintain the front-of-house spaces of a hotel or venue throughout the working day. The role covers lobbies, corridors, lifts, public restrooms, restaurant entrances, and event spaces — clearing, cleaning, restocking, and resetting on a continuous cycle. Because the role is visible to guests by definition, presentation and pace are as important as the cleaning itself.
Who it suits
The role suits people who take pride in clean spaces, are comfortable working around guests, and can maintain a steady pace through the shift. It is well-suited to experienced housekeepers stepping into a more visible role, and to those who prefer the rhythm of public areas to the room-by-room work of a Room Attendant.
A typical shift
Eight-hour shifts, typically 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm, sometimes overnight. The shift runs as a continuous circuit: restrooms first thing, lobby and lifts mid-morning, restaurant areas before and after service, and public spaces refreshed before evening. Workers respond to spills and incidents in real time, restock consumables throughout the day, and hand over a fully reset front-of-house at the end of the shift.
Requirements & expectations
- Right to work in the UK
- Hospitality cleaning experience preferred — housekeeping, contract cleaning, or front-of-house
- COSHH and safe use of cleaning chemicals
- Presentable, guest-aware manner — the role is guest-facing throughout the shift
- Reliability and pace — public areas are time-sensitive
- Manual handling awareness
Skills you’ll gain
- Front-of-house standards across luxury, mid-market, and corporate hotel settings
- Speed and accuracy in shared-space cleaning
- Confident guest interaction within the scope of the role
- A path into Housekeeping Supervisor or Public Area Lead roles
Where you could work
Conifer places Public Area Cleaners across hotels, members' clubs, conference centres, and event venues. We match by setting and shift pattern, and we hold our placements to the front-of-house standards each property expects.
About Conifer
Conifer isn't another agency. We're the partner businesses call when reliability matters, when fit matters, and when "good enough" isn't good enough. We look after our people, take care of the compliance behind the scenes, and pick up the phone when you need us — every shift, every site, every time.
