Job Introduction
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Job introduction
We are looking for a Neighbourhood Operations Supervisor to join our Green & Clean team. This role is 15 hours per week to be worked on Saturday & Sunday 15:30 - 23:30 (winter) & 16:30 - 00:30 (summer). Working outside of these service hours may also be required. The role is mainly based at Port Royal Street Housing Depot in Portsmouth, and the role is permanent.
Your new role
The primary role of the Green & Clean service is the cleaning and gardening of all communal housing areas. Our purpose is “to help keep the city safe, clean and tidy and provide advice/support when needed”. This role will involve:
- Assisting the Estate Operations Manager in leading a team, training, and supporting staff in meeting the Estate Services purpose.
- Whilst most allocating of roles is managed centrally you will be responsible for allocating jobs at times, prioritising tasks and making informed decisions.
- Recording high volumes of cleaning and gardening demand onto the Green & Clean database.
- Being the first point of contact for an entire team of lone-workers and responding in a timely, appropriate, and supportive manner.
- Managing annual leave and sickness reporting for your team; including conducting return-to-work interviews and inputting onto computer database.
- Providing training and support to the team to meet the purpose of the service. This will include being out on site "in-the-work" with staff members to ensure everything is working efficiently and effectively.
- Maintaining, and ordering stock and equipment to ensure your team can fulfil their roles.
- Using data from our computer systems to further your local knowledge about our housing estates in order to inform your decisions about where to allocate resources.
- Demonstrating, coaching, and ensuring safe methods of work to staff in line with health and safety legislation, service specific rules and risk assessments.
- Managing complaints from service users you will need to be able to resolve problems that are beyond the remit or capacity of the team, e.g., working with other departments to address anti-social behaviour issues, or working with specialist contractors to ensure we meet our purpose.
- Occasionally when required you may need to carry out cleaning and gardening tasks. This will involve the use of manual and powered equipment.
Who is the person?
You need:
- To be a motivated, hard-working reliable and conscientious individual able to self-manage, use initiative where necessary and take pride in the work.
- To be a confident and calm person, able to effectively manage challenging situations in a challenging environment.
- To be able to consistently make good decisions, prioritise effectively, take responsibility for actions, and learn from any mistakes made.
- To be able to communicate effectively.
- To be flexible and able to adapt to changing work situations as due to the varying nature of the workload and demand which hits the service you may be required to work outside the normal core hours.
- To have good organisational and IT skills, including use of databases and Microsoft Office suite. Understanding how to use data to inform decision making.
- A full clean UK driving licence.
Please see the full job profile attached below.
Our recruitment process
Full information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page: Support for applicants - Careers portal
You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.
We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our career's portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
