Neighbourhood Care Operative

Grade C/D scp 5 £26,427 to scp 11 £29,071
Contract: permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Essential requirement: full driving licence
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact: Lisa.burley@bolton.gov.uk

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The Role

An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our Neighbourhood Services Team at Bolton Council.

You will work within neighbourhoods throughout the borough, assisting with all aspects of street cleansing and grounds maintenance. We are particularly interested in individuals with experience using mechanical machinery/tools related to grounds maintenance and Environmental Cleansing.

As part of your role, you will work alongside Environmental Enforcement Officers to help maintain a clean and tidy borough, and typical duties will include: grounds maintenance duties such as shrub and flower bed maintenance, strimming and edging off associated grassed areas, weed control and chemical application, Winter gritting, manual snow and leaf clearance.
Removal of debris from accidents on the highway and the removal of dead animals is essential in this role, as well as street cleansing duties such as litter picking on highways, open spaces and shrubbed area; manual removal of graffiti and fly posting.

The team is also involved in high profile events and activities hosted within the Borough during the year

About You

Neighbourhood Service sits within the Department of Place in the heart of Bolton. The services we provide are an essential service for both the community and visitors too Bolton. We work with local people to make lasting improvements where they’re most needed and developing Bolton to be a place where people choose to live, work and invest.
This means listening to people and involving them in reshaping services. This includes services like cleaning the streets and grounds maintenance. We also working in partnership with other agencies such as the police, to improve local neighbourhoods and giving local people a say in influencing how our services will be delivered.
We want to make a positive and lasting difference.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk