Cleaning Operative - Portobello High School - EDN30802

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 to join the Facilities Management team. This role involves maintaining cleanliness in various buildings within the Portobello area, ensuring safe and hygienic environments. The position offers flexible hours, job security, and opportunities for professional development while enhancing community well-being.

Benefits

Permanent position and job security

Flexible working hours

Paid annual leave

Excellent pension scheme

Opportunity for career progression

Employee benefits and discount schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in cleaning and maintaining hygiene standards.
• Ability to cooperate with performance measurement to meet standards.
• Willingness to join the PVG Scheme for work with children/protected adults.

Responsibilities

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures, and fittings.
• Perform emergency and reactive cleaning tasks.

Job description

Job Description

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Position: Cleaning Operative
Location: Portobello Area

Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro rata for part-time)
Hours: 20 per week, 52 weeks

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

• 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.
• Perform emergency and reactive cleaning as required, e.g., removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
• Maintain the care and cleanliness of all equipment used.
• Support cleaning tasks across other buildings as required.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement to meet standards.

*Facilities Management has overall responsibility for keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings. As part of this role, you will be required to be a key holder, including operation of security alarm systems, securing windows and doors, switching off lights, and ensuring premises are left safe and secure.

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. If you have 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. You will need to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory pre-employment checks.

We are committed to creating a workplace where all feel valued and included. We recognize the benefits of a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experiences, and backgrounds.

As part of our effort to improve our organizational culture and create a great place to work, we are moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioral and technical (skills for the job) approach. This will help us assess how you think and how you would embody our core behaviors of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility.

More information about Our Behaviors can be found on the Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council web page.

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

We are happy to discuss flexible working options.

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