Driver Attendant - Public Conveniences
North East Locality Office 

Salary: £25,905 - £26,111 
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks 

Shift Pattern: Four on Four off Rotational Shift Pattern from 09:30am until 20:15pm (90 minutes unpaid break)

As a Driver Attendant with the City of Edinburgh Council, you'll be a key member of our Facilities Management team. You'll 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.

Please see the supporting documents for more information about the role.

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'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 Council

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.

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THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL

About Us:

Are you keen to shape the future of Scotland’s capital city? The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to work with us and deliver key services across our capital city. We’re the second largest local authority in Scotland with a workforce of over 19,000 who all play a crucial role in maintaining and supporting vital services to over 500,000 residents. We offer an incredible variety of career opportunities across a broad range of sectors. Join us and you’ll find a role where you can make a difference and grow your career.

Our Culture:

Our Behaviours, respect, integrity, and flexibility guide everything that we do, and we strive to make sure all colleagues feel valued and have a sense of belonging in the workplace. We want to make sure that we bring people into our roles who demonstrate Our Behaviours and are dedicated and committed to our purpose of serving our community. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service to meet citizens needs and make the city a better place.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We recognise the benefits that diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds bring to our organisation, and we’re committed to employing a workforce that represents the population of the city we serve. We particularly encourage applicants from under-represented groups including women, LGBT+ people, racially minoritised groups, people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we're delighted to announce that we have extended our guaranteed interview scheme to include all applicants who are or have been care experienced, and who meet the essential criteria for the post. This extends our current arrangements of being a Disability Confident Employer, that guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the criteria for the post and who declare a disability.

Happy to talk flexible working.

Colleague Support and Wellbeing

As outlined in our People Strategy 2024-27, we aim to nurture a healthy workforce where we can all thrive. We offer regular events, initiatives and learning opportunities covering a range of different health and wellbeing topics.

We’re committed to supporting employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. There are several policies in place to support this ranging from flexible work options to career breaks. Our full suite of employment policies can be found here.

We have a range of support options available including access to counselling, a mental health support service, an occupational health service, speak up supporters and a colleague listening service.

Reasonable Adjustments:

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience at work for all our colleagues and we’ll work hard to ensure that we meet the changing needs of colleagues throughout their time with us. We’re also geared up to support all candidates who may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Candidates invited for interview, should let the hiring manager know what they need, and they will do everything they can to accommodate your request.