Driver/Attendant (Public Conveniences) - 13268_1769094646

As a Driver Attendant with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of our Facilities Management team. You will deliver a vital cleaning service across our estate within the public conveniences. Enjoy secure and flexible employment with above-market rates and excellent conditions, whilst being able to balance family, caring or studying commitments.

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours to suit (morning, evening or daytime) from 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 - looking after your community's essential buildings used by your family, friends and neighbours.

As part of our team, you will be valued and respected with a key focus on training and development.

MAJOR TASKS/JOB ACTIVITIES

• Cleaning of public toilets, including but not exhaustively all surfaces, floors, fixtures and fittings to ensure facilities are in a clean, hygienic and serviceable condition.
• Empty bins and dispose of waste appropriately.
• Undertake re-active cleaning as a result of anti-social behaviour, vandalism, accidental spillages as required. This will include the removal and safe disposal of sharps (syringes etc) to safeguard public health using CEC safe working procedure.
• On a day-to-day basis, be responsible for driving vehicles appropriate to licence type held and as directed. Responsible for Daily Vehicle Checks, presenting vehicles to workshops when required and completing associated paperwork.
• The post holder is responsible for the timely opening and/or closing of public conveniences at their allocated times. The post holder has key holding responsibilities whilst working.
• The post holder is responsible for the collection and distribution of stores to PC locations i.e. cleaning materials and consumables. Ensuring consumables i.e. toilet tissue, hand towels, soap etc. are replenished on a regular basis to prevent their depletion.
• Carry out visual inspections of facilities (including examination of ball-cocks and water fittings), undertake minor repairs and maintenance to the public convenience buildings and its fixtures and fittings, including replacing light bulbs/tubes.
• They will be expected to identify repairs and maintenance issues and report these, along with incidents of vandalism, accordingly to their line manager. They will recommend closure of facility to line manager for health and safety reasons whilst repairs are initiated.
• Ensure duties are carried out following CEC safe working practises to ensure the health and safety of job holders and the public during the cleaning process.
• On occasion the post holder will need to deal with the public and handle anti-social behaviour and may be required to have contact with emergency services, departmental and outside agencies when required.
• Ensure proper completion of daily paperwork i.e. Daily work sheets, repair books and incident report sheets where applicable.
• On occasion deal with weather emergencies (ice, snow, flooding, gritting).
• Facilities Management has overall responsibility for keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings that we service. As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative and in this particular role, you will be required to be a key holder to fulfil these tasks. This typically would include operation of security alarm systems when opening a building, closing accessible windows and doors, switching off lights and ensuring that premises are left safe and secure when closing.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We are 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 are 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 are 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 salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working.