Cleaning Operative - Dean Bank

Cleaning Operative – Dean Park
Salary: £26,205 – £26,525 (pro‑rata for part‑time and sessional)

Hours:

10 per week, 38 weeks sessional

Working pattern:
Monday – Friday, 16:00 – 18:00

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of the Facilities Management team, delivering a vital cleaning service across our estate to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn. The role offers above‑market rates, excellent conditions, and the flexibility to balance family, caring, or study commitments.

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours (10 to 36 hours per week)
• 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

• Empty litter and recycling bins
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings within a group of buildings
• Clean all sanitary areas, toilets and showers; replenish washroom consumables
• Emergency and reactive cleaning (e.g., removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages)
• Care for and maintain cleanliness of all equipment used in cleaning duties
• Support cleaning tasks across other buildings where required
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement so that overall standards are met

* Facilities Management has overall responsibility for keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings serviced. As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative and in this role, you will be required to be a key holder, operating security alarm systems, closing windows and doors, switching off lights, and ensuring premises are secure when closing.

• Regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007
• Preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check
• Individuals who have spent a continuous period of 3 months or more outside the UK in the last 5 years must provide an Overseas Criminal Record Check
• Unconditional offer of employment and commencement will be subject to satisfactory outcomes of both checks Equality and diversity

  We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care‑experienced people, carers, and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently under‑represented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience.
  
  Disabled and care‑experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

  Additional information

  Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Flexible working arrangements are available.