Cleaning Operative - Canaan Lane Primary School - 12742_1765209754

The City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

A local government council in Edinburgh is seeking a Cleaning Operative to deliver vital cleaning services across schools and facilities. You will ensure that all spaces are safe and clean for work or learning. The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, able to follow health and safety standards, and adaptable to flexible working hours ranging from 10 to 36 hours per week. This role offers secure employment, and potential for progression within the team.

Benefits

Paid annual leave

Excellent pension scheme

Opportunities for career progression

Flexible hours

Qualifications

• Experience in cleaning roles is preferred.
• Ability to follow health and safety standards.
• Willingness to undergo background checks.

Responsibilities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean various surfaces and facilities.
• Ensure cleanliness of equipment.

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Teamwork

Job description

Cleaning Operative

Place: Canaan Lane Primary School, Edinburgh. Salary: £25,322 – £26,623 (pro‑rata for part‑time). Hours: 15 per week, 52 weeks. Working days: Monday‑Friday, 16:00‑19:00.

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of our Facilities Management team, delivering vital cleaning services across our estate to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn. Enjoy secure and flexible employment with above‑market rates and excellent conditions, while balancing family, caring or studying commitments.

Benefits

• 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

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 reactive cleaning as required (removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages)
• Care for and maintain cleanliness of all equipment used in carrying out the above duties
• Other tasks reasonably related to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where required
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement to meet overall agreed standards

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

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 outside the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required and must be provided. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both checks being deemed satisfactory.

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 us as an organisation.

To help achieve this, we are 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. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

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.

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