Recycling Assistant
Job Category : Interims
Location : London Borough of Hillingdon
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £16.00
Overview of duties include:
– Assistant to the waste services
– Assisting the Recycling team in the back office with data input, letters and other administration.
– Out on site carrying out door knocking to encourage food waste participation and recycling
– Supporting other projects
– Educated to ‘A’ Level or equivalent skills and knowledge
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Council’s Customer Care Standards and ensure that these standards are met in order to deliver the Council vision of ‘putting our residents first’.
- Engage with all aspects of our residents and users of the borough to ensure the maximum recycling material is captured and diverted from the waste stream.
3. Operational Service Delivery
- Assist with the day to day activities of the recycling and waste service.
- Liaise with various stakeholders, partners and potential customers to promote the Council’s recycling services.
- Help deliver a variety of recycling initiatives surrounding recycling topics across the borough.
- Work with schools to help promote recycling messages and policies.
- Work with residents, including those living in flatted accommodation, to help towards improved quality and volume of recycling materials and diverting recycling waste from residual waste.
- Promote recycling initiatives by through roadshows and attending local events.
- Assist with door to door campaigns to promote the recycling service.
- Work with our commercial businesses to promote recycling waste.
- Keep up to date with new recycling initiatives and actively work to improve your understanding of recycling issues.
4. Service Planning & Development
- Maintain knowledge of the current Team Plan and understanding of your own contribution in order to ensure delivery of this plan.
5. Financial & Resource Management
- Demonstrate cost-consciousness and identify any cost effective changes to your own way of working.
6. Continuous Improvement
- To identify and suggest any improvements to current ways of working in order to deliver a more efficient and effective service for customers.
- To help improve the overall recycling behaviour of our residents and users of the borough.
7. Contacts
- Primary contacts will be with other officers of the Council, service users/potential service users and contractors and schools.
8. Additional Responsibilities
- Complete other reasonable tasks in order to fulfil role purpose or as required by management.
9. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Successful delivery against KPIs
- Achieve increases in recycling rates
Improve the overall quality of recycling materials collected
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