Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values we strive to have a workforce that reflects our local communities and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds, applicants who have a disability and applicants who are from the LGBTQ+ community to apply for our senior leadership roles. 

Our Values are:

About the team we are recruiting to

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

The Streetpride Service is Coventry City Councils Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Service.  It has a responsibility and statutory duty to keep the City Clean, Green and attractive for all.

Keeping the City clean and green is a huge challenge and not one we can do on our own.  The service is delivered by a flexible locally committed workforce who work well with the different residents, communities and partners ensuring a One Coventry approach by enabling people to do more for themselves.

The service operates out of 3 strategically based sites in the North and the South of the City and provides a cleansing service 7 days per week for 52 weeks of the year.

We currently clean 10’000 miles or road network each year and empty over 3’000 street litter bins each week.

The service is also responsible for delivering the Grounds Maintenance works across all our Parks and Open Spaces including our 5 Green Flag Parks and cuts approximately 6 million square metres of grass every 20 working days.  That is the equivalent of cutting one thousand football pitches.

What is the job role?

As a Neighbourhood Operative, you will be working as part of our street cleansing team, you will be responsible for ensuring our City Centre is kept clean at all times by undertaking a range of street cleansing activities and ensuring all work is carried out by the appropriate Safe Systems of Work. 

The duties of this role will involve:

• Sweeping streets
• Emptying bins
• Litter picking 
• Removal of small-scale graffiti 
• Collection of other associated waste as required. 

These roles are 37 hours a week shifts 9:30 am until 5:30 pm on a fixed rota. The rota pattern requires you to work every weekend which attracts a weekend pay increment (you will have 2 days off in the week). The rota for these positions is Saturday to Wednesday with Thursday and Friday as the days off. 

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will: 

• be reliable and committed
• have a professional attitude and willing to take on the tasks and duties within the remit of the role and service area
• be physically fit and able to walk for long periods of time and work in all weather
• able to undertake a range of various labouring tasks involving bending, pulling, and lifting.
• customer-focused and able to remain a respectful, calm, and polite in environments where they may experience challenging behaviours or situations when assisting the general public and customers by responding to minor queries and complaints
• confident to take appropriate action to avoid formal complaints.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interview date: 21st December 2023

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 4800 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council