Driver Sweeper (HGV)

Buckinghamshire Council; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Council’s Street Scene Team delivers street cleansing and grounds maintenance services across Aylesbury Vale and is currently recruiting for a HGV Sweeper Driver. This role is essential in delivering front-line services, ensuring local areas are clean and safe for residents and visitors to the area.

The annual salary for 39 hours per week is£32,122 - £33,631.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of LGV driving experience.
• Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC).
• Experience of mechanical sweeper driving desirable.
• Experience of operating vehicle mounted cranes.

Responsibilities

• Driving and operating mechanical sweepers
• Vehicle inspections/checks and operator maintenance
• Complying with health and safety policies and procedures
• Use of specialist equipment
• Sweeping and litter picking of designated area’s of highway
• Ensuring accurate paperwork and records are completed.
• Other duties include public bin emptying, cleansing of car parks, collection of fly-tipped waste and seasonal work such as leaf clearance and winter maintenance.

Skills

LGV driving experience

LGV Class C License

Driver CPC

Mechanical sweeper driving

Job description

Buckinghamshire Council’s Street Scene Team delivers street cleansing and grounds maintenance services across Aylesbury Vale and is currently recruiting for a HGV Sweeper Driver. This role is essential in delivering front-line services, ensuring local areas are clean and safe for residents and visitors to the area.

The annual salary for 39 hours per week is£32,122 - £33,631.

About us

Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively neworganisation that combines the strengths and expertiseof the previousfive councils in the countytocreate positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to providestronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.

About the role

If you enjoy working outside, have an eye for detail and take pride in your work and the local area, then this could be just the job for you!

You will be responsible for providing front-line Street Cleansing services. You will be reliable, have a ‘can do’ attitude and a commitment to working safely.

Key Accountabilities

Responsibilities will include:

• Driving and operating mechanical sweepers
• Vehicle inspections/checks and operator maintenance
• Complying with health and safety policies and procedures
• Use of specialist equipment
• Sweeping and litter picking of designated area’s of highway
• Ensuring accurate paperwork and records are completed.
• Other duties include (but are not limited to), public bin emptying, cleansing of car parks, collection of fly-tipped waste and seasonal work such as leaf clearance and winter maintenance.

Street cleansing services are provided between the hours of 06.00 and 18.00 and some weekend and bank holiday work will be required. The shift pattern will be either 06.00 to 14.30 or 07.00-15.30.

Fixed

As a ‘fixed’ worker, you’ll spend most of your time in the same location, which will likely be a fixed office or location where your role is performed. Typically, you’ll be based in the same location as the rest of your team, because you provide a particular service from that fixed location or need access to information there.

About you

• Minimum 2 years of LGV driving experience, LGV Class C License.
• Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
• Experience of mechanical sweeper driving desirable.
• Experience of operating vehicle mounted cranes

Full training will be provided and you will be required to demonstrate Buckinghamshire Council values, representing the Council whilst working in public areas.

The work is outdoors all year round, and work will take place in all weather conditions. All personal protective equipment and clothing will be provided.

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day.

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• licensing, cemeteries and crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment.

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. We also offer a salary sacrifice personal car lease scheme to those who are eligible and have passed their probation period. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.