Cleansing Operative

As a Mobile Cleaning operative you'll play a vital role travelling to our corporate Councils buildings ensuring they are a clean and safe environment for pupils and staff to learn and work in.   

You will make a difference by carrying out duties to the specifications and levels required to maintain a good level of hygiene across all the Councils sites.

• Under the day to day supervision of a Cleaning Supervisor, you will be responsible for carrying out cleaning at the site either individually or as part of a team, following Integra’s prepared schedules and to agreed quality standards.
  
  
• You will be responsible for carrying out all cleaning using materials and equipment in a safe and proper manner. This will involve the washing/wiping of surfaces, cleaning toilets, vacuuming, mopping and using a floor polish machine.
  
  
• On a day to day basis you will need to move cleaning equipment and materials, therefore, the ideal applicant will be able to bend, crouch and lift regularly.
  
  
• As a mobile cleaner, you will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so must have a full valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle. Or have alternative appropriate means of travel.

What you need to know

• Shift pattern: these vary and can be either mornings or evenings, please see below
• Hours : 10 per week
• Uniform & equipment will be provided
• Shifts are all year round and salaries are pro-rated to hours worked
• Business insurance will need to be added to your policy. 
• Mileage can be claimed.

Current site vacancies:

Badminton Road - 7.5 & 10 hours
Page Park - 10 hours
Patchway - 10 hours
Hanham Library - 7.5 hours 

• You will be able to follow processes on the condition and safe storage of cleaning chemicals, and dispense, dilute and use chemicals in the correct method.
  
  
• You will have good organisational skills, enabling you to follow instructions correctly and complete tasks to an agreed standard.
  
  
• An ideal candidate will have good communication and problem solving skills.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different 

• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

• As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
   

• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future
   
• We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. We’re making a difference, be part of it For 

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it  

For further information, please refer to the job description Cleaning Operative_ Corporate_ 2017