Cleansing Operative Driver/Crew Leader City Wide Salary: £26,337 - £28,835 Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks The working pattern for the position is working 4x4 and will be subject to unsocial hour payment. The purpose of this post is to ensure the local environment is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness. This will involve undertaking a range of services and activities, including: street and open space cleaning, litter collection, environmental inspection and enforcement. Drive vehicles appropriate to the licence type held. They will be responsible for the vehicle and undertake appropriate checks and paper work. Undertake day‐to‐day task allocation and operational supervision of cleansing operatives assigned to them (this may include lone workers). Act as a first point of contact with the local community providing advice, responding to problems and working alongside relevant colleagues, other CEC departments and agencies ensuring the highest possible standards of customer care are maintained. Post holders are routinely responsible for day to day supervision of up to five cleansing operatives and or agency staff (grade 3), but this may increase dependant on shift patterns. Full line management responsibility lies with Supervisor/Area Manager. Will be required to work alongside temporary seasonal staff from time to time and provide instructions to these staff (this could include agency staff). Will be required to support new starts and agency staff, providing on the job training. Creativity and Innovation Responsible for continuous service improvement activities associated with meeting agreed performance targets, this will include reviewing practises and route optimisation. Work closely with neighbourhood colleagues to ensure local environment issues and problems are proactively resolved. Prioritise their work and that of their crew, whilst ensuring service standards are met. This might include dealing with urgent issues and arranging for remaining issues to be dealt with in appropriate timescales. Allocation of enquires to staff using mobile technology. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation. As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working. You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" ; target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working. Follow us on X at @edincounciljobs View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36792/cleansing-driver-crew… ; target="_blank">Cleansing Operative Driver/Crew Leader job description ">https://counter.adcourier.com/SmFjb2IuSG9iYmlzLjkyNzQ3LjEzNTMyQGNpdHlvZ… ;