Driver​/Sweeper

Overview

We're looking for a reliable and hardworking Driver/Sweeper to join our comprehensive Street Cleansing Service within the Streetscene Team. Your role will help keep our streets clean, safe, and welcoming for residents and visitors alike. Our team keeps the town’s pavements, roads, and other public areas clean and safe, and we’re looking for new team members to join us.

We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.

Shift work – starting at 5.30 am and including occasional weekends and bank holidays.

Applicants must hold a full UK manual driving licence (Category C1 + E) and be comfortable driving small vans or tippers.

• Driving the electric vehicle and pedestrian mechanical sweeping machines
• Carrying out street cleansing duties using a range of equipment
• Maintaining equipment in accordance with checklists
• Ensuring assigned areas are cleaned to a high standard
• Following all health and safety regulations
• Completing daily logs and reports as required
• Supporting the wider street cleansing team as needed
• Manually sweeping and clearing litter from public areas

Ideally the successful candidate will have a proven track record of outside working in a demanding environment, experience driving tippers and other mechanical sweeping machinery, and an understanding of general vehicle maintenance.

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service with the option to buy additional leave
• A wide range of flexible working opportunities
• Modern working environment at the 19 Bennet Road depot
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Life assurance – three times your annual salary (for LGPS members)
• On‑site day nursery (Kennet Day nursery) rated outstanding by Ofsted
• Season ticket loan – a loan to help with the cost of your rail or bus journey, to and from work
• Lease car salary‑sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand new, greener car for three years; the monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax

• Work Together as one team – work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do.
• Drive Efficiency – show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential.
• Be Ambitious – be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way.
• Make a Difference to Reading – maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed.

Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates, including those with disabilities.