Streetpride Operative

Coventry City Council; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council's Streetpride Service is recruiting for street cleansing and grounds maintenance roles. You will join a team delivering a 7-day cleansing service, supporting parks and open spaces, and helping keep the city clean and safe.

Ideal candidates are reliable, physically fit, with a practical attitude and a focus on safety and customer service. A Category B licence is required, with flexible shifts across the week.

Qualifications

• Be reliable and committed.
• Physically fit for walking long distances and working in all weather.
• Able to carry out labouring tasks with bending, pulling and lifting.
• Knowledge of health and safety in the workplace (PPE).
• Able to operate basic hand and power tools.
• Category B manual driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Sweep streets and empty bins as part of daily duties.
• Litter-pick grassed areas and remove detritus.
• Maintain grounds of highways verges, parks and open spaces.
• Assist in the use of power tools like strimmers and cutters.
• Signpost and support residents while upholding customer service standards.

Skills

Reliability

Professional attitude

Physical fitness

Labour tasks

Customer-focused

Health and safety awareness

Driving licence (Cat B)

Basic hand/power tools

Job description

The Streetpride Service is Coventry City Council's Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Service. It has a responsibility and statutory duty to keep the City Clean, Green and attractive for all.

The service operates out of three strategically located sites citywide and provides a cleansing service seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.

We currently clean 10,000 miles of road network each year and empty over 3,000 street litter bins each week.

The service is also responsible for delivering the Grounds Maintenance works across all our Parks and Open Spaces, including our 5 Green Flag Parks and cuts approximately 6 million square metres of grass every 20 working days. That is the equivalent of cutting one thousand football pitches.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create an inclusive workplace culture, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

As part of a team, you will support the maintenance and improvement of streets, neighbourhoods, parks, and open spaces by undertaking a range of street cleansing and grounds maintenance activities and ensuring all work is carried out by the appropriate Safe Systems of Work.

These are key roles within our Streetpride Service, and you will provide support to the community and public to improve the way our City looks and feels by working with team members and partners to create a greater feeling of security and confidence among residents, assist in maintaining a clean and safer community, and signpost accordingly.

The duties of these roles will involve:

• sweeping streets, emptying bins
• litter-picking grassed areas
• removal of dead animals and undesirable waste, e.g. dog fouling
• maintaining the grounds of highway verges and parks and public open spaces
• driving vehicles and using power tools such as strimmers, hedge cutters, and other various grass-cutting machines.

Please see the short video on roles within Environmental Services https://youtu.be/6owzy0WX510

We have several positions available, both working Monday to Friday.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will:

• Be reliable and committed
• Have a professional attitude and be willing to take on the tasks and duties within the remit of the role and service area
• Be physically fit and able to walk for long periods and work in all weather
• Able to undertake various labouring tasks involving bending, pulling, and lifting.
• Customer-focused and able to remain respectful, calm, and polite in environments where they may experience challenging behaviours or situations when assisting the general public and customers by responding to minor queries and complaints
• Confident to take appropriate action to avoid formal complaints.

In addition, you should have:

• Knowledge of Health and safety in the workplace (incl. PPE)
• Basic Knowledge of horticultural operations
• Ability to operate basic hand and power tools
• Able to work flexibly across any shift if necessary
• A minimum of a Category B manual driving licence

At the moment, we have very few women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds in our team, and we would like this to change. So, we want to encourage you to apply. You can still apply if you are not a woman or from a minority ethnic background. All applications are welcome.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Need help completing your application form? The Job Shop can support you. You can email them at [e-mail] or visit the Job Shop in person, please see their webpage for more information. For all other queries, contact [e-mail] .

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'.

We recognise that you might use AI tools to help with your application. While these tools can be useful, please make sure that all information you provide about your experience, skills, and qualifications is accurate. What matters most to us is hearing about your experience and the achievements that truly reflect you!

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

• If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies