Toilet Cleansing Operatives (Driving Required)

Job introduction

Would you like to work in a friendly team, earn a great salary and keep our city clean and safe?

We’re on the lookout for people who enjoy working across different locations to join our permanent public toilet cleansing team.

It’ll involve driving from site to site keeping our public toilets clean and well stocked. Applicants will need to hold UK driving license as they will be required to drive between the sites.

This is a 4 days on, 4 days off shift pattern, 8am-8.30pm shifts during summer months (April- September), then 8am-6pm during winter months October -March.

If this sounds like a role you’d find rewarding, we’d love to hear from you.

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Interview date: End of September

For an informal discussion, please contact Judyta Pawlowska, judyta.pawlowska@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

Brighton & Hove City Council is recruiting 1 cleansing operatives to clean public toilets.

The job involves:

• Cleaning sinks and surrounding areas including walls and mirrors
• Cleaning toilet pans and seats
• Removing graffiti
• Sweeping and washing the floors
• Emptying bins
• Removing drug paraphernalia safely
• Replenishing toilet paper and soap
• Reporting damaged cleaning equipment
• Reporting maintenance issues such as broken locks and dispensers
• Driving between the sites to open, clean and close

You will need to be:

• able to be on your feet all day
• self-motivated and able to work on your own as well as part of a team
• hard-working, reliable and responsible
• able to interact with members of the public

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).