Cleaning Operative - Ratho Primary School

Cleaning Operative - Ratho Primary School

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

Hours:

10 per week, 40 weeks sessional. Working pattern for the position is 6 am‑8 am, Monday‑Friday.

As a cleaner with the City of Edinburgh Council, you will be a key member of our Facilities Management team, delivering a vital cleaning service across our estate to ensure our properties are safe and clean places to work or learn. We offer secure, flexible employment with above‑market rates and excellent conditions, allowing you 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.

• 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.
• Provide 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 the above duties.
• Carry out other tasks reasonably required that relate to the role, including supporting cleaning tasks across other buildings where required.
• Deliver to the cleaning specification requirements and cooperate with performance measurement so that the overall agreed standards are met.

As part of the duties of a Cleaning Operative in this role, you will be required to be a key holder. This includes operating security alarm systems when opening a building, 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 a continuous period of 3 months or more out of the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required.

Employment offers and commencement will be subject to satisfactory outcomes of these pre‑employment checks.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and can 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 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.

Information about our commitment to equalities can be found on our website.

We appreciate the importance of our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility and will assess how you bring them into your ways of working.

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

Happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.