Cleansing Operative - Seafield Depot - 12707_1764849540

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

Job summary

A local government organization in Edinburgh is seeking a Cleansing Operative for the Nightshift at Seafield Depot. The role involves maintaining the cleanliness of public spaces through a range of activities, including street cleaning and litter collection. Candidates should have good communication skills to engage with the community and must be capable of handling various waste removal tasks. The position offers a competitive salary of £25,905 - £26,111 for 36 hours per week.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Able to maintain high cleanliness standards in public spaces.
• Experience in environmental inspections and enforcement.
• Strong communication skills for community interaction.

Responsibilities

• Perform street and open space cleaning to service standards.
• Utilize handheld technology for work recording and reporting.
• Remove waste efficiently from streets and open spaces.

Job description

Overview

Cleansing Operative Nightshift — Seafield Depot

Salary: £25,905 - £26,111

Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

Ensure the local environment is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness. This will involve undertaking a range of services and activities, including street and open space cleaning, litter collection, environmental inspection and enforcement.

Act as a first point of contact with the local community providing advice, responding to problems and working alongside relevant colleagues, other CEC departments and agencies ensuring the highest possible standards of customer care are maintained.

Major Tasks / Job Activities

• Carry out the day to day operations of street and open space cleaning, environmental inspections and enforcement, meeting the relevant Service Standards and complying with Safe Working Practices.
• Use hand held technology to record work, receive instructions and report back on actions or problems identified.
• Responsible for removing waste including litter, special uplifts, leaves, faeces, needles, fly tipping and dead animals from streets and open spaces using the appropriate supplied equipment.
• Servicing of litter bins. Dealing with weather emergencies and seasonal variations and events.
• Assist emergency services in clearing up after incidents, and the removal of fire debris and hazards from common stairs.
• Work with Environment Wardens in providing information and giving statements where formal enforcement is required in relation to environmental crime.
• Will be required to work alongside temporary seasonal staff from time to time and provide direction to these staff.
• Work closely with Locality colleagues to ensure local environment issues and problems are proactively resolved. Assist the service in the development of open space cleaning operations. Prioritise work to meet service standards and appropriate timescales.

We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work. 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 bring 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 about Our Behaviours: Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council. Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annual increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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