Domestic Support Assistant - Benmore Centre

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Domestic Support Assistant
Benmore Outdoor Centre

Salary: £22,580 - £22,824 (pro-rata for part time)
Hours: 23 per week

We are also looking for casual Domestic Support Assistants to cover absence and increased service demands as it arises. When applying for the casual post please note this on your application.

Appealing pay and benefits - Local Authority Terms and Conditions of employment including training, holidays, leave and pension.

Mondays and Fridays are essential working days (for changeovers)
Working hours will mainly be week day shifts between 07:30-19:30, with occasional weekend cover.

Proposed starting working time pattern – subject to change

Monday 08:30-12:30 & 16:00-19:30 (could be 09:30-13:30 if required)

Tuesday 15:00-19:30

Friday – 07:30-16:00

Opportunity of additional hours at times to cover staff absence and service demands.

This role will suit a positive and enthusiastic individual who takes pride in performing their duties to a high standard and contributing to quality service delivery. We need a team player who engages well with others and is flexible and adaptable to service needs.

Our Domestic Support Assistant team provides a range of cleaning duties to ensure a safe, clean and well presented environment for the groups and guests visiting the residential outdoor centre and self catering properties.

Key duties are general housekeeping, deep cleaning tasks across our sites along with food serving and prep/clean up - you will need to be organised and work efficiently and safely within company policies seeking advice and guidance when necessary.

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 with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

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.

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

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