
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Street Cleansing Operative
Full Job Description
Street Services – improving residents’ lives
Our mission is to ensure our neighbourhoods are vibrant, safe and attractive with community services that meet the needs of local residents. Our Street Services team is central to this, taking pride in our borough and keeping Greenwich clean and green.
Street Services provides a highly important service to all the borough’s residents and visitors from sweeping roads to collecting and emptying household and business waste bins. This is a vital front-line service and has a huge impact on residents and the community.
Our Street Cleansing Operatives play a crucial role – this role involves sweeping the boroughs streets, town centres and highways as well as emptying street litter bins and removing fly tips to maintain a clean and safe environment. The service operates seven days a week.
You will work anywhere in the borough. Working on an AM or PM shift between 6am to 8pm (you must be flexible to join either shift). Starting salary £24,012 a year + allowances
We offer great staff benefits including:
- Training and development opportunities
- Opportunities for working additional overtime for all 3 posts during the weekend and during the busiest times of the year including Christmas and Easter
- 28 days’ annual leave a year rising to 31 after 5 years’ service
If you are successful at interview, you will either receive a conditional offer for an immediate vacancy or you may be added to our reserve list for future vacancies.
Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.
How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.
Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this ‘Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.
Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.
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