Job Description
Cleaning Operative - Fixed Term until 30/06/2025
The Royal High Primary School
Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 15 per week, 40 weeks sessional
Monday - Friday - 4.00pm - 7.00pm
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:
1. To empty litter and recycling bins.
2. The cleaning of all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings within a group of buildings.
3. The cleaning of all sanitary areas, toilets and showers and the replenishment of washroom consumables.
4. Emergency and re-active cleaning as required, e.g. removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
5. The care and cleanliness of all equipment used in carrying out the above duties.
6. Other tasks as may reasonably be required that relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where required.
7. 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.
8. As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative, you will be required to be a key holder to fulfil tasks related to opening and closing of buildings, including operation of security alarm systems, 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. 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
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.
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