Cleaning Operative - Gilmerton Primary School - EDN30795

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a Cleaning Operative for Gilmerton Primary School. This role involves maintaining cleanliness and safety within school premises while part of a supportive Facilities Management team. The position offers flexible hours and commensurate pay, suitable for work-life balance.

Benefits

Paid annual leave

Flexible working hours

Excellent pension scheme

Opportunities for advancement

Employee benefits and discounts

Qualifications

• Willingness to undertake PVG checks to work with vulnerable individuals.
• Commitment to values of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, floors, and sanitary areas.
• Respond to emergency cleaning needs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Team player

Job description

Job Description

Place

Cleaning Operative
Gilmerton Primary School

Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 15 per week, 40 weeks sessional, Monday - Friday, 3:30pm - 6:30pm

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 neighbors.

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

Major Tasks/Job Activities

• To empty litter and recycling bins.
• The cleaning of all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures, and fittings within a group of buildings.
• The cleaning of all sanitary areas, toilets, and showers and the replenishment of washroom consumables.
• Emergency and reactive cleaning as required, e.g., removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
• The 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.
• The post holder will be required to deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and to 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 fulfill 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.

Requirements

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.

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 recognize the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organization.

As part of our goal to improve our organizational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to ensure 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 behavioral 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 Behaviors of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviors web page Our Behaviors - The City of Edinburgh Council

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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