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