Cleaning Operative - Boroughmuir High School - 12832_1765454224

The City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

A local city council in Edinburgh is seeking a Cleaning Operative to ensure cleanliness in various facilities. The role includes duties such as cleaning surfaces, handling sanitary areas, and performing emergency cleaning tasks. Applicants should be prepared to follow detailed cleaning protocols and be open to flexible working hours in a sessional capacity. The position offers security, flexible employment, and opportunities for training and development.

Benefits

Paid annual leave

Excellent pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Colleague discount scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to follow cleaning protocols and standards.
• Experience using cleaning equipment and materials.
• Capability to perform emergency cleaning as required.

Responsibilities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, and fixtures.
• Clean sanitary areas and replenish washroom consumables.
• Handle emergency cleaning tasks as needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Time management

Job description

Cleaning Operative

Boroughmuir High School

Hours: 20 per week, 38 weeks sessional
Salary: £25,322 - £25,623 (pro rata for part time and sessional)

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you’ll be a key member of our Facilities Management team. You’ll deliver a vital cleaning service across our estate to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn in. Enjoy secure and flexible employment with above‑market rates and excellent conditions, whilst being able to balance family, caring or studying commitments.

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours to suit (morning, evening or daytime) from 10 to 36 hours
• Sessional hours (school term only) available on some posts
• Paid annual leave (where applicable)
• Excellent pension scheme
• Opportunities to progress to supervisory level
• Employee benefits and colleague discount scheme
• Community connection—looking after your community’s essential buildings used by your family, friends and neighbours.

As part of our team, you will be valued and respected with a key focus on training and development.

Major Tasks / Job Activities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings within a group of buildings.
• Clean all sanitary areas, toilets and showers and replenish washroom consumables.
• Emergency and re‑active cleaning as required, e.g. removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
• Care and cleanliness of all equipment used in carrying out the above duties.
• Other tasks as may reasonably be required that relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where required.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement so that the overall agreed standards are met.

Facilities Management has overall responsibility for keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings that we service. As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative and in this particular role, you will be required to be a key holder to fulfil these tasks. This typically would include operation of security alarm systems when opening a building, closing accessible windows and doors, switching off lights and ensuring that premises are left safe and secure when closing.

Please see the supporting documents for more information about the role.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre‑employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency‑based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach.

We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation.

Our Behaviours – Respect, Integrity, Flexibility. Our Behaviours page: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.