Recycling Assistant

Job Description

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.

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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