Flexible Cleaning Operative inEdinburgh inEdinburgh PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
The City of Edinburgh Council rdc1DUzi
Secure employment with permanent positions offering job stability.
Flexible working hours that allow for a better work-life balance, accommodating personal and family commitments.
Above-market salary rates, ensuring competitive compensation for your work.
Paid annual leave and an excellent pension scheme, contributing to long-term financial security.
Opportunities for career progression, including potential advancement to supervisory roles.
Employee benefits and colleague discount schemes, providing additional perks for working with the council.
The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a Flexible Cleaning Operative to join their Facilities Management team in the city center. This part-time role, offering 10 hours per week from 5pm to 7pm, involves providing essential cleaning services to ensure that council properties are safe and hygienic for users. The position offers secure employment with competitive pay, flexibility to accommodate other commitments, opportunities for career progression, and a supportive work environment that values training and development.
Key responsibilities include routine cleaning tasks such as emptying bins, cleaning surfaces and sanitary areas, and performing emergency cleaning as needed. The role also requires keyholder responsibilities, including operating security systems and ensuring premises are secure after use. Candidates must undergo background checks due to the nature of the work, which involves contact with vulnerable individuals. The council values a diverse workforce and seeks individuals who demonstrate respect, integrity, and flexibility in their approach to work.
Key responsibilities include routine cleaning tasks such as emptying bins, cleaning surfaces and sanitary areas, and performing emergency cleaning as needed. The role also requires keyholder responsibilities, including operating security systems and ensuring premises are secure after use. Candidates must undergo background checks due to the nature of the work, which involves contact with vulnerable individuals. The council values a diverse workforce and seeks individuals who demonstrate respect, integrity, and flexibility in their approach to work.
Job Description
Place
Flexible Cleaning Operative
City Centre
Salary: £24,346- £24,646 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 10 per week, 52 weeks
Monday - Friday 5pm - 7pm
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.
MAJOR TASKS/JOB ACTIVITIES
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. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Requirements
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 make sure that we're bringing 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 on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
Place
Flexible Cleaning Operative
City Centre
Salary: £24,346- £24,646 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 10 per week, 52 weeks
Monday - Friday 5pm - 7pm
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 neighbours.
MAJOR TASKS/JOB ACTIVITIES
- To empty litter and recycling bins.
- The cleaning of all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings within a group of buildings.
- The cleaning of all sanitary areas, toilets and showers and the replenishment of washroom consumables.
- Emergency and re-active cleaning as required, e.g. removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
- The care and cleanliness of all equipment used in carrying out the above duties.
- Other tasks as may reasonably be required that relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where required.
- The post holder will be required to deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and to cooperate with performance measurement so that the overall agreed standards are met.
- Facilities Management has overall responsibility for keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings that we service. As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative and in this particular role, you will be required to be a key holder to fulfil these tasks. This typically would include operation of security alarm systems when opening a building, closing accessible windows and doors, switching off lights and ensuring that premises are left safe and secure when closing.
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. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Requirements
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 make sure that we're bringing 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 on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
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