Cleansing Operative

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Cleansing Operative NightshiftSeafield DepotSalary: £25, - £26, Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks Ensure the local environment is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness. This will involve undertaking a range of services and activities, including: street and open space cleaning, litter collection, environmental inspection and enforcement. Act as a first point of contact with the local community providing advice, responding to problems and working alongside relevant colleagues, other CEC departments and agencies ensuring the highest possible standards of customer care are maintained. MAJOR TASKS/JOB ACTIVITIES: Carry out the day to day operations of street and open space cleaning, environmental inspections and enforcement, meeting the relevant Service Standards and complying Safe Working Practices. Use hand held technology to record work, receive instructions and report back on actions or problems identified. Responsible for removing waste including but not exhaustively litter, Special Uplifts leaves, faeces, needles, fly tipping & dead animals from streets and open spaces using the appropriate supplied equipment. The servicing of litter bins. Dealing with weather emergencies and seasonal variations and events. Assist emergency services in clearing up after incidents, and the removal of fire debris and hazards from common stairs. Work with Environment Wardens in providing information and giving statements where formal enforcement is required in relation to environmental crime.Will be required to work alongside temporary seasonal staff from time to time and provide direction to these staff.Work closely with Locality colleagues to ensure local environment issues and problems are proactively resolved. Assist the service in the development of open space cleaning operations. Will on occasion have to prioritise their work whilst ensuring service standards are met. This might include dealing with urgent issues and arranging for remaining issues to be dealt with in appropriate timescales. 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.As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.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 Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh CouncilOur salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.Happy to talk flexible working.



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