Cleaning Operative - Currie High School

Overview

Place Cleaning Operative
Currie Community High School
Salary: £25,322 - £25,623 (pro rata for part time)

Hours:

20 per week, 52 weeks
Monday - Friday 4pm-8pm

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of the Facilities Management team. You will deliver a vital cleaning service across our estate to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn in. You will have secure and flexible employment with above-market rates and good conditions, while balancing family, caring or studying commitments.

• 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 reactive 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 you may be required to be a key holder to fulfil these tasks. This includes 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 are 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. We aim to improve our organisational culture and to bring the best people into our roles, not just in skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we are 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 interviewing approach allows us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your work.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours at 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.

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