Cleaning Operative - Currie Primary School - _

Cleaning Operative – Currie Primary/Nursery

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

Hours:

10 per week, 38 weeks sessional – 17:30 to 19:30, Monday‑Friday

As a cleaner 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 to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn. Enjoy secure and flexible employment with above‑market rates, excellent conditions, and the ability to balance family, caring or studying commitments.

Benefits:

• Trusted employer
• Security offered by permanent positions
• Flexible hours (10 to 36 hours)
• Sessional hours (school term only) 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 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 and replenish washroom consumables
• Emergency and reactive cleaning as required (e.g. removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages, accidental spillages)
• Care for and maintain cleanliness of all equipment used in carrying out duties
• Other tasks as reasonably required, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where needed
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement to meet agreed standards

Keyholding:
You will be a key holder, enabling opening and closing of buildings, operating security alarm systems, securing windows and doors, switching off lights, and ensuring premises are left safe and secure.

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. If you have spent a continuous period of 3 months or more outside the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required.

An unconditional offer and commencement will depend on satisfactory outcomes of these pre‑employment checks.

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, 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 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.

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

Happy to talk flexible working.