Cleaning Operative - Currie High School

Cleaning Operative at Currie High School

Hours:

23 per week

Salary £26,205 - £26,525 (pro rata for part time and sessional)

Monday - Thursday: 15:00 to 19:30
Fridays: 12:00 to 17:00

• 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.

• 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 (removal of graffiti, body fluid spillages and accidental spillages).
• Care for and keep all equipment used in carrying out the above duties clean and functional.
• Other tasks as reasonably required that relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings when required.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement so that overall agreed standards are met.

Key duties include keyholding to enable opening and closing of buildings: operating security alarm systems, closing accessible windows and doors, switching off lights and ensuring 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 three months or more continuously out of the UK in the last five years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required.

Acceptance of employment and commencement of the post will be subject to satisfactory completion of both 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, 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 underrepresented. 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 typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.