Community Maintenance Operative

Overview

To carry out a range of duties to ensure the efficient maintenance of parks, gardens and landscaped areas, cemeteries and street cleansing to ensure our Communities have a clean and vibrant environment and to assist with the promotion, delivery and integration of the key objectives in relation to those identified within the Housing and Communities Service Plan and the Community Plan.

We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely "Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment". With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

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This is a full time permanent post based at Ayr Road Depot, Cumnock.

The hours of work are 37 per week to be worked as follows;
Monday
-Thursday 7.15 am - 3.15 pm Friday 7.15 am - 2.45 pm.

The salary for the post is £28,533 - £29,880 per annum.

East Ayrshire Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups including Black and Minority Ethnic people, disabled people and LGBT people. We are also keen to decrease occupational segregation and so encourage women to apply for managerial posts and/or roles in which they are underrepresented.

East Ayrshire Council is a Disability Confident employer and a Recruit with Conviction Ambassador.

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