Current jobs related to Caretaker - Caernarfon - Gwynedd Council

Reference:
23-26918

Job title:
Caretaker

Directorate:
Economy and Community Development

Service:
Libraries

Closing date:
15/03/2024 12:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 20 Hour

Salary:
£12,290 - £12,494 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Location(s):
Caernarfon Library

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack**

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

**Monday - 5.30-6.30pm**

**Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm**

**Wednesday - 4.00- 5.00pm**

**Thursday - 5.30-6.30pm**

**Friday - 4.00-5.00pm**

**Interviews to be held on 22/03/2024**

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 15/03/2024**

**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work **.**

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
Good personality who communicates easily with members of staff and the public.

**Desirable**:
Efficient and flexible working in a team.

**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Has received grounds maintenance / grass mowing machinery training.

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
Care taking/cleaning work in the past.

**Desirable**:
Previous experience of working in a library.

Experience of driving distribution and large vehicles

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Full, current driving licence.

Computer skills, borrowing resources.

**Language requirements**:
**Listening and Speaking - Foundation**:
Able to maintain a simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English in the everyday context of the post, using specific vocabulary that arises regularly, in order to present information.

**Reading and Understanding - Foundation**:
**Writing - Foundation**:
**Purpose of the post**:

- Putting the people of Gwynedd at the centre of everything we do.
- Carrying out caretaker duties, including cleaning and tidying and carrying out weekly building checks to Caernarfon Centre and Library.

**Responsibility for functions**:
Equipment: Cleaning

**Main duties**:

- Opening/Closing Caernarfon Library Centre including the Public Library and the garage on a daily basis.
- Set the alarm at the end of each working day
- On duty for call outs relating to the building's intruder alarm
- Weekly fire alarm testing and ensuring the Fire Log Book is up to date
- Cleaning the entire building including public toilets and staff toilets in accordance with a daily work schedule
- Cleaning the internal windows of the building in accordance with a timetable and usage requirements
- Order cleaning materials for the building
- Ensure that the garage and car park are tidy and clean
- Collect and sort rubbish waste for recycling/general waste and prepare bins for weekly/fortnightly collection as required
- Report to the Site Manager on building, furniture or equipment maintenance issues.
- Assist in preparing the Library's Community Room for regular meetings/events as required
- Be available if possible to occasionally do additional hours outside normal working hours ie evenings/Saturday afternoons for meetings/events in the Community Room
- Attend staff meetings and training as required, specifically in terms of Site Management/COSHH
- Attend self development training sessions as required and directed
- Responsibility for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management standards and guidelines. Ensure that personal information is handled in compliance with Data Protection legislation.
- Responsibility for self development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
- Acting within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsibility for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management standards and guidelines. Ensure that personal information is handled in compliance with Data Protection legislation
- A commitment to reduce the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan and to encourage others to take positive action towards reducing the Council's carbon footprint.
- Undertake any other equivalent and reasonable duty that matches the salary level and level of responsibility of the position.
- Responsibility to report a concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused

**Special circumstances**:
Working Hours: 20 hours a basic week with the possibility of additional hours according to demand. Training is provided as needed.

The main work site will be Caernarfon Library Centre