Cleaning Operative - Prestonfield Primary School

Cleaning Operative – Prestonfield Primary School

Salary: £26,205 – £26,525 (pro‑rated for part‑time and sessional)

Hours:

10 per week, 40 weeks sessional

Working pattern: 5pm – 7pm, Monday – Friday

As a cleaner 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 to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn.

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours 10‑36 hours, including morning, evening or daytime options
• Sessional hours 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 family, friends and neighbours

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

• Empty litter and recycling bins.
• Clean all surfaces, internal glass, floors, furniture, fixtures and fittings within the building group.
• Clean all sanitary areas, toilets and showers and replenish washroom consumables.
• Perform emergency and reactive cleaning as required (e.g., graffiti removal, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages).
• Care for and maintain equipment used in cleaning duties.
• Perform other related tasks as reasonably required, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification and cooperate with performance measurement to meet agreed standards.

Keyholding responsibilities include operating security alarm systems, closing windows and doors, switching off lights, and ensuring premises are left safe and secure when closing.

This role involves regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Applicants must join or update the PVG Scheme. An Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required if the candidate has spent three months or more outside the UK in the last five years.

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

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Our interview will include an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and increases annually until the top of the range.