Cleaning Operative - Dean Park Annexe

Cleaning Operative - Dean Park Annexe

Salary: £26,205 - £26,525 (pro rata for part time and sessional). Hours: 18 per week, 40 weeks sessional. Working pattern: Monday 5 9 PM, Tuesday-Friday 5 8:30 PM.

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of our Facilities Management team, delivering a vital cleaning service across our estate to keep our properties safe and clean.

We offer secure and flexible employment with competitive pay and excellent conditions, allowing you to balance family, caring or study commitments.

Benefits include:

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours to suit (10 to 36 hours)
• Sessional hours (school term only) available on some posts
• Paid annual leave (where applicable)
• Excellent pension scheme
• Opportunities to progress to supervisory level
• Employee benefits and colleague discount scheme
• Community connection - caring for essential buildings used by your community

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings in designated buildings.
• Clean all sanitary areas, toilets and showers, and replenish washroom consumables.
• Respond to emergency and reactive cleaning needs, e.g. remove graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages.
• Maintain cleanliness and care of all equipment used.
• Other duties that reasonably relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings as required.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification and cooperate with performance measurement to meet the agreed standards.

As a Cleaning Operative in this role, you will also be a key holder. This may include operating security alarm systems when opening a building, closing windows and doors, switching off lights, and ensuring premises are left safe and secure when closing.

This role is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. You will need to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. If you have spent a continuous period of 3 months or more abroad in the last 5 years, you will also need an Overseas Criminal Record Check. These checks must be satisfactory for an unconditional offer.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We encourage applications from women for senior roles, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers, and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation. Disabled and care experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and increases annually until it reaches the top of the range.

Flexible working arrangements are available.