Overview
Salary: £22366 – £23114 pa plus weekend increment
Shift hours: 37
As a Neighbourhood Operative, you will be working as part of our street cleansing team, you will be responsible for ensuring our City Centre is kept clean at all times by undertaking a range of street cleansing activities and ensuring all work is carried out by the appropriate Safe Systems of Work.
The duties of this role will involve:
- Sweeping streets
- Emptying bins
- Litter picking
- Removal of small-scale graffiti
- Collection of other associated waste as required.
These roles are 37 hours a week shifts 9:30 am until 5:30 pm on a fixed rota. The rota pattern requires you to work every weekend which attracts a weekend pay increment (you will have 2 days off in the week). The rota for these positions is Sunday to Thursday with Friday and Saturday as the days off.
The successful candidate will:
- be reliable and committed
- have a professional attitude and are willing to take on the tasks and duties within the remit of the role and service area
- be physically fit and able to walk for long periods and work in all weather
- able to undertake various labouring tasks involving bending, pulling, and lifting.
- customer-focused and able to remain respectful, calm, and polite in environments where they may experience challenging behaviours or situations when assisting the general public and customers by responding to minor queries and complaints
- confident to take appropriate action to avoid formal complaints.
At the moment we have very few women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds in our Team and we would like this to change. So, we want to encourage you to apply. You can still apply if you are not a woman or from a minority ethnic background. All applications are welcome.
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date(s):
Reference: coventrycc/TP/188/10324