About The Role
Role: Streetscene Operative
Location: Moss Side Depot, South Ribble
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Salary: £25,183 - £25,584
Closing Date: 21 April 2025
Are you looking for a role within local government? Are you looking for a role that involves working outside, somewhere that you can really take some pride in your work?
We are looking for 2 x Cleansing Operatives to join our borough-based cleansing teams. In this role, you will be working all around the borough in an extremely varied role, looking after the borough’s community spaces, parks, and streets. You will be ensuring that they are in perfect condition for the residents, wider community, and visitors to the borough.
What will your role include?
1. You will get involved with street cleansing tasks such as removal of fly tipping and daily cleansing of local areas.
2. To complete daily schedules utilizing digital platforms.
3. Always maintaining health and safety protocols whilst working.
4. Operate cleansing tools and vehicles.
5. Responding to minor emergencies such as flooding, obstructions, and damaged street furniture.
Who we are looking for?
1. You will be helping keep community spaces looking their best, so we are looking for someone who can really take pride in their work.
2. A team player and good communicator!
3. You will be operating various vehicles in this role, so you will need to have a valid clean driving licence.
Our Benefits
1. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
2. Hybrid/agile working from day one.
3. Local Government pension.
4. Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
5. Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
6. Volunteering days.
7. Free parking.
8. Car Allowance.
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices. We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website. If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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