Slater - South West Locality Office - 10920_1753433175
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,046.00 to £32,010.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 August 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH17 8QF |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10920_1753433175 |
Summary
Slater
South West Locality Office
Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
We are looking for experienced Slaters to join our Housing Services team. You will be part of a team of cross trade operatives who are responsible for carrying out repairs in Council tenant's homes and repairing and maintaining our empty homes to a high standard for our new tenants.
The Housing Services team manages over 20,000 homes across Edinburgh. We are looking for qualified Slaters who have great customer care and communication skills and will thrive at the opportunity to help our tenants.
To be considered for the post you must:
- Be a time served tradesperson.
- Be qualified to current regulations.
- Hold an appropriate e.g. City & Guilds, SVQ level 3 or equivalent.
- A working knowledge of relevant statutory regulations, standards and codes of practice.
- A high level of health and safety awareness.
- A good communicator with good customer care skills.
- A full clean UK driving licence.
- Available to Participate in out of hours emergency rota.
Multi skilling, you will be expected to carry out multi trade tasks that compliment and are associated with the core work activity tasks which you carry out.
If you would like to know more about the role contact mailto:service.improvement@edinburgh.gov.uk" target="_blank">service.improvement@edinburgh.gov.uk
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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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