Coordinating and carrying out treatments appropriate to specific tasks, and using approved methods to ensure the most efficient destruction of pests, you’ll undertake block treatment and sewer baiting programmes, and collect and dispose of clinical waste. We’ll also expect you to keep proper records of the work you carry out, and monitor the use of pesticides and equipment via accurate completion of the stock control register.

It's important that you look after council issued IT equipment by ensuring batteries are sufficiently charged and devices switched on and operating correctly throughout working hours, and keep the vehicles you use clean, tidy and maintained in accordance with the instructions issued by our vehicle fleet management team. You’ll also be required to participate in the call-out roster for emergencies outside of normal working hours, and assist with other, non-recurring duties that are appropriate to your role.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You

With an RSPH Level 2 in Pest Management or its equivalent, you’ll have experience of operational pest control and the ability to use a wide variety of information systems and technology. Capable of planning, delivering and coordinating projects and your own workload, you’ll have a strong customer focus and be friendly, approachable and empathetic.

A confident communicator, you’ll be ready to work unsupervised in accordance with agreed programmes, and possess the ability to write concise reports and keep written and computerised records of case work. In addition, we’ll expect you to have a strong understanding of and commitment to working safely.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.