Street Cleansing and Grot Spot Lgv Driver Operative

**Employer**: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
- **Salary**: £24,702 - £25,979 pro rata plus benefits.
- **Location**: Wirral
- **Contract**: Temporary
- **Working Pattern**: Full Time
- **Hours**: 36 hours per week.
- **DBS Check**: No
- **Closing Date**: 29/09/2024 at 23:59
- **Reference**: NS/24/292680

There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. We’ve got ambitious targets to meet and to achieve everything we have promised to our residents, we need people who are ready to deliver the very best for our communities and show how they can #BeTheDifference. Our vision is to secure the best possible future for our residents, defined by the community prosperity we create and supported by our excellent people and services. If you strive to #BeTheDifference and want to be at the heart of our change and improvement journey, then this could be the perfect job for you.

**Street Cleansing & Grot Spot LGV Driver Operative x 2**

**Fixed Term until 31**st** March 2025.**

**About the role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a Street Cleansing & Grot Spot Operative, as part of the Waste & Recycling Team, within Environmental Services.

You will carry out a full range of street cleansing & grot spot clearance operations, activities and associated tasks in parks and countryside areas, open spaces, highway network, alleyways & other Council maintained land and all associated sites using relevant vehicles, machinery (once training is provided), tools, equipment, and materials specific to the task.

Work to be undertaken in an approved manner with emphasis on safe working practices having regard to colleagues and members of the public.

The successful applicants will be depot-based working across various locations on the Wirral.

We are seeking dedicated people to join the team carrying out street cleansing works within the borough, including removal of litter, debris, needles, bulky waste, glass, dog fouling, animal carcases, fly tipping, fly posting and leaf fall operations.

You should have a variety of experience in tools and machinery use including mechanical sweepers and plant machinery; understand and demonstrate safe working practices, and be able to work both alongside a team, and independently.

We are looking for keen, enthusiastic, self-motivated people, experienced in this type of work, capable of working and liaising with a wide diversity of people and experience in the following:

- Developing and promoting street cleansing improvements on footpaths, alleyways, highway network, roadside verges, recreational & coastal areas, open spaces, and allocated sites.
- Working to scheduled work that has been set by managers. Dealing with the public and voluntary groups.

Above all you will be looking to improve the way we engage with our employees, residents, and customers to ensure they are at the heart of everything we do.

**Interviews to be held week commencing 7**th** October 2024.**

**Working at Wirral**

You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:
Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things, and behave.

We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing, and investing in our people.

We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.
- Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies._
- It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances._
- Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date._
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