Cleaning Operative - Voids

Aberdeen City Council; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Aberdeen City Council is seeking individuals for a manual role focused on cleaning and maintaining council properties. The job involves working with a team to clear void properties and ensure health and safety compliance. Candidates must possess a valid UK driving license and demonstrate physical fitness along with initiative in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate an appropriate level of health and fitness for manual tasks.
• Experience with cleaning processes and equipment.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal colleagues to clear and clean Void properties.
• Maintain health, safety, and fire standards at council buildings.
• Remove fly-tipped items and bodily fluids as part of a response service.

Skills

Health and fitness

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Full current UK driving license

Job description

R oles that require PVG Membership

Please note that with effect from 1 April 2023 , where a role requires PVG membership, candidates will be required to meet the cost of the PVG membership . This applies only to roles with a full time equivalent salary of £30,000 and above . (Teaching roles and jobs at Grade 11 and above (currently £30,285 per annum / £ 16.64 per hour)

The Council will pay for the PVG membership cost initially, either £18 for existing PVG scheme members, or £59 for non-members , and this cost will be deducted from an employee’s first FULL month’s salary payment.

Job purpose/about the role

The purpose of the role is to work in conjunction with internal colleagues in Operations and Housing to provide a clearing and cleaning service to help turnaround Void properties and maintain Council properties. We are a response service for customers allowing buildings and sites to maintain health, safety and fire standards by removal of fly tipped items and blood and other bodily fluids. A certain level of fitness is required to undertake this manual role.

The post holder needs to hold as a minimum:

• Full current UK driving license and the willingness to undertake driving vehicles supplied to transport yourself and co-workers to sites across the City.

The postholder is able to demonstrate:

• An appropriate level of health and fitness to carry out manual frontline service delivery tasks
• Cleaning processes and the use of cleaning equipment and materials
• Working both as part of a Team and having the ability to use one’s own initiative

About Us

Please see the Job Profile for further details.

We are happy to talk flexible working and offer flexible working for most roles in the organisation meaning that many of our employees enjoy the freedom of choosing a working pattern that suits them as much as it suits the organisation.

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you consider yourself to have a disability and think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for this part of the selection process, or would like further information in relation to reasonable adjustments, please [e-mail] .

We are a forces-friendly employer, have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a silver award recipient in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We have a specific email address for those in the forces, those who have left the forces, as well as their partners / spouses / families:[e-mail] . We are able to answer questions about jobs and our application / selection process, as well as about our employee support provisions.

We have a number of guaranteed interview schemes available to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role they are applying for who:

• have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 (all jobs)
• looked after young people, those that are in continuing care or are a care leaver up to the age of 29 (all jobs)
• are aged 16-24 and live in Aberdeen City or have been to an Aberdeen City Council school and are applying for a Modern Apprenticeship (except Trades apprenticeships)
• have done a Foundation Apprenticeship with Aberdeen City Council and are applying for any apprenticeships relevant to the area in which they did their Foundation Apprenticeship
• are New Scots* aged 16-24 and are applying for any apprenticeships

*"New Scots" are defined as refugees and asylum seekers who are in Scottish communities and include those who have been granted refugee status or another form of humanitarian protection, people seeking asylum, those who have been refused asylum, and those whose application has been refused but who remain in Scotland.