Cleaning Operative - Drumbrae Library Hub - 12619_1764242435

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

Job summary

A local authority in Edinburgh seeks a Cleaning Operative to deliver essential cleaning services across its facilities. This position offers flexible working hours, competitive pay, and strong job security in a supportive environment. The ideal candidate will manage various cleaning tasks, including maintaining sanitary areas and supporting community upkeep. If you value a positive workplace culture and opportunity for development, this role may be for you.

Benefits

Paid annual leave

Excellent pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Ability to perform various cleaning tasks effectively.
• Reliability and attention to detail in maintaining cleanliness.
• Willingness to undergo background checks as required.

Responsibilities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures, and fittings.
• Manage cleaning of sanitary areas, toilets, and showers.

Job description

Cleaning Operative

Drumbrae hub

Salary £25,322-£25,623 (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 16 per week, 52 weeks per year

Monday-Thursday 18:00-21:00
Friday 17:00-21:00

Summary

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 for and maintain all equipment used in carrying out the above duties.
• Perform other tasks as reasonably 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.
• Act as a key holder to enable opening and closing of buildings we service, including operating security alarm systems, closing accessible windows and doors, switching off lights and ensuring premises are left safe and secure when closing.
• Other relevant responsibilities outlined in supporting documents.

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 of 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.

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 with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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. 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.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web 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.

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