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Community Works Operative 4 (37 hpw), Portree - HGH19176

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Posting date: 22 July 2025
Salary: £27,282.00 to £29,879.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 04 August 2025
Location: Skye Lochalsh, IV51 9HL
Company: Highland Council
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: HGH19176

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Job Description

Post Title: Community Works Operative 4
Location: Broom Place, Portree, IV51 9HL
Hours: 37 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £27,282 - £29,879

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: ​Angus MacFarlane Tel: 07780 560312

Job Purpose: To work collaboratively as a professional driver acting as a responsible person with a crew to carry out all duties involved with refuse collection, bulky uplifts, bin deliveries, and other driving jobs. Periodically, working as a loader may be required, and from time to time, manual lifting will be required to assist crew team members. Daily duties will include among other things, managing all legal requirements, daily briefs and debriefs, post trip inspections, people management, health and safety, and cleaning and maintaining the vehicle inside and out daily and weekly as the case may be.

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact HR Transactions, Tel: 01349 868642 (24 hour voicemail) or email: Recruitment.Enquiries@highland.gov.uk quoting the post reference number above.

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The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

  • Preferably clean LGV license.

  • Current CPC, and Tacho Card or ability to upgrade quickly.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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